Airport Express, the major transportation way for pass- engers of Guangzhou City and the Pearl-River Delta to and from the new Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport, was put into service at the time the new airport was ready for service. Being operated by the Airport Express Transportation Com- pany of Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport provides you a cozy, timely and comfor-table service.
Currently Airport Express provides line from airport to Zhuhai leaving respetcively (from Airport) at: 10:25, 11:25, 12:25, 13:25, 14:25, 15:25,16:25, 17:25, 18:25,19:35,20:55 ( departing form new airport Arrival A Section, no. 7th gate, and will be 5minutes later accordingly if departing from Arrival B Setcion, No. 10th gate). More routes to go to Dongguan, Zhongshan, etc. is under processing and will be ready for service soon.
From November 5, 2004, the return toll of taxi in Guangzhou is payable for a distance longer than 35 kilometers instead of the previous 15 kilometers. The municipal transport and quality service authorities have completed the readjustment of meters of the 16,025 taxis in the city. No taxi is allowed to operate with an old meter since January 1, 2005. Each qualified taxi will put on a notice issued by the Guangzhou price supervising and transport authorities: The return toll is payable to distance longer than 35 meters and passengers are subject to payment of road/bridge tolls.
The New Airport Line of the Guangzhou No. 3 Subway will be 30.8 kilometers long and will have 10 stations. It starts from Guangzhou East Railway Station, via Yantang, Meihua Garden, Nanfa Hospital, Tonghe, Yongtai, Jiahe, Longgui and Renhe stations, to arrive at New Airport. There will be a south and a north station at New Airport. The section is scheduled to start construction in the middle of 2006 and be completed in 2009.Due to the complex geological situation of roads leading to the new airport, the sections between Yantang Station and Tonghe Station and between South and North stations will go underground. The section from Longgui Station to Renhe Station will be built at ground level with the rest on a viaduct. The ground-level section will be 1.57 kilometers long and the rest will have a total length of 17.03 kilometers.The new subway will have a designed maximum speed of 120 km per hour. The trains will each have six carriages. The New Airport Line is scheduled to complete the initial phase, mid-term phase, and long-term phase in 2012, 2019, and 2034 respectively. The maximum one-way passenger turnover will be about 2 million in a peak hour.Construction of the subway is scheduled to start in mid-2006 and be completed at the end of 2009. The tunnel construction of the South Station and the 1.73-km-long section between both ends has been completed together with the first phase construction of the new airport.The completion of the New Airport Line, together with the No.3 Subway, will form an express transport system between the airport and southern areas and will provide great convenience for people in the Pearl River Delta to travel by air.
The 3rd runway of Guangzhou Baiyun Airport to begin construction in 2008
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Chen Xiaoning, Vice president of Guangdong Airport Management Corporation, said that to actively participate in market competition, a series constructions on freight infrastructures will be carried out at the airport.
A 520 thousand ton annual throughput international cargo station and a new international cargo station for FedEx, will be completed in 2007 and 2008 respectively. The third airport runway will begin construction in 2008. Moreover, a tax free zone involving processing & logistics will be built north of the FedEx hub, with an area of 6.6 square kilometers for the early stage.
The annual air freight of the Pearl River Delta has now exceeded 5 million tons. There are two domestic air cargo stations at Baiyun International Airport, one about 100,000 square meters and the other 60,000 square meters.
By 2010, Baiyun International Airport is expected to reach a passenger throughput of 38 to 40 million people, and a cargo & mail throughput of 1.6 to 2 million tons.
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