Old buildings

    TWO apartment buildings funded by the city government 20 years ago at the intersection of Fanshen Road and Xin’an Road in Bao’an District are said to be on the verge of collapse.

    The two buildings, suspected to have been constructed using sea sand and built on land reclaimed from the sea, ran into quality problems in 1997, two years after first being occupied. Occupants of some of the buildings in the housing estate were evacuated after the structures they were in were designated as dangerous.

    According to some of the current occupants, all 18 buildings of the Xinle housing estate are hazardous, but Bao’an’s construction bureau did not release the results of its study two years after it had assessed the quality of the buildings.

    Accident kills 2

    TWO riders of an electric bike were killed in a collision with a concrete mixer truck at a T-intersection along Xinsha Road in Shajing Subdistrict in Bao’an District on Sunday.

    According to witnesses, at about 10:25 a.m. the mixer truck was turning right onto Minfu Road when it collided with an electric bike proceeding in the same direction. The two victims, a man and a woman, fell and were run over by the truck’s front-right wheel.

    The incident remains under investigation.

    Boiler fire

    TWO workers were injured by an boiler explosion caused by a fire at an arts products company near Bulan Road in Longgang District on Thursday.

    Nanwan Subdistrict Office said the fire began at 8:50 a.m. and was extinguished at around 9:30 p.m. The cause of the fire remains under investigation.

    Bus route change

    TO accommodate construction of the Yitian Flyover project on Binhe Road, Shenzhen’s transportation commission will alter 16 bus routes. They include routes 73, 235, M390, 71, M347, 374, 76, 80, K578 and K359. The project will commence Saturday and is projected to continue until Aug. 11.

    The section between Fuhua No.4 Road and the Bajiekou section in Shixiabei of Yitian Road will be closed for the duration of the project, which is being carried out in conjunction with the construction of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong passenger line. The latter is expected to commence service at the end of next year.

    New terminals

    LUOHU District residents covered by the city’s social security program can now take care of routine business, like setting up electronic payments and checking balances, at self-service terminals installed across the district.

    The terminals operate 24 hours a day and there are currently 36 in operation in 10 subdistricts in Luohu, Shenzhen Special Zone Daily reported.

    A new fingerprint-ID function will be added to the terminals this month, allowing pensioners to collect their pensions conveniently and with greater security.