Han Ximin

    ximhan@126.com

    SHENZHEN traffic police introduced a reversible lane, also called a tidal lane, on a section of Shennan Road between Dongmen Road South and Wenjin Road Central in Luohu District for a two-week trial run Monday.

    The 1.3-km section was introduced to relieve the traffic pressure of eastward vehicles and could be the second reversible lane in the city, following Xinzhou Road in Futian District, if it passes an efficiency test, Shenzhen police said Monday.

    Police said the eastward movement of vehicles during the evening rush hour between 5:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. is much more than the westward movement on the section between Dongmen Road South and Wenjin Road Central.

    Shenzhen first introduced a reversible lane on Xinzhou Road in September last year. The number of southbound vehicles turning left at the intersection with Hongli Road West increased from 1,079 vehicles per hour to 1,499 per hour during rush hour. The number of northbound vehicles turning at the intersection with Lianhua Road increased by 45 percent, according to police.

    “The introduction of reversible lanes has attained good results and we will select more roads for piloting such measures,” said Liu Yi, deputy section chief of the technology department at the traffic police bureau.