2nd Ring Road (Beijing)
The 2nd ring road ( Chinese 北京 二环 路 , Pinyin Běijīng Èr Huánlù ) in Beijing is both an urban ring road and a benchmark. Beijing's old city center is located on the 2nd ring road.
location
The length of the 2nd ring road is around 30–40 km. The street is just a few kilometers from Tiananmen Square . The central location means that traffic jams occur very often.
The four corners of the ring road are at Dongzhimen (in the northeast), Xizhimen (in the northwest), Caihuying (in the southwest) and Zuo'anmen (in the southeast).
history
The northern half of the ring road coincides with the former course of the city walls of Beijing . These were canceled between the 1950s and 1978. At the end of the 1970s, the first sections of the ring road were completed.
In the 1990s, the condition of the road surface deteriorated continuously, as the road was designed for a significantly lower volume of traffic. Therefore it was completely renovated in 2001.
To counteract the traffic jams, an electronic control system was introduced, which informs the driver about the traffic situation.
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Coordinates: 39 ° 53 '56.3 " N , 116 ° 23' 12.9" E