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In Ulaanbaatar closed Peace Bridge causes traffic problems |
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Tuesday, 25 July 2006 |
Mongol Messenger reports:
The Peace Bridge was closed the
day after Naadam for renovation, causing traffic jams on Gurvaljin Bridge
and surrounding roads.
On July 17 Ulaanbaatar Mayor Ts.
Batbayar and general manager G.
Monkhbayar inspected progress of
work carried out by Ulaanbaatar city
staff before the Chinese workforce
from Hunan province took over.
The Peace Bridge was built with
Chinese funding in 1963, and this is
the first complete renovation since
then, the mayor and Chinese Ambassador Gao Shumao signing an agree-
ment on March 5 for the funding of
19 million yuan.
Mongolia is to provide the Chinese
executor water and heat and re-route
the traffic for the renovations, which
are scheduled for completion on April
12, 2007.
The first stage is scheduled for
completion by September, after which
the bridge will carry only one-way traffic until April.
The closing of the bridge is indeed causing increased trafiic jams it the often already gridlocked city. All traffic is now routed over the small Gurvaljin bridge south of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and over the Gandhi Avenue. During rush hour commuters from south of the bridge spent half an hour more to make it into town.
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