During holidays, Hainan can always become a hot topic, and recently, Hainan air tickets out of the island have once again become the focus, causing widespread attention. At the heart of the problem lies in the lack of land transport capacity, and the current mode of railway ferry transport is far from being able to meet the huge passenger flow demand in a short period of time.
On the one hand, the number of ferry terminals is limited, the existing terminals are too few, and the ferry speed is slow, a voyage takes more than 1 hour, plus about 1 hour to wait on the ship, the process is cumbersome, and the time cost is high. The Guangdong Railway Ferry currently consists of four ro-ro passenger vessels numbered "Yuehai Railway", which currently consists of Nangang, Beigang and "Yuehai Railway", with a daily operating capacity of only 28 voyages, and is responsible for the transportation of passengers, cars and goods in the Qiongzhou Strait.
In fact, the narrowest part of the Qiongzhou Strait is less than 20 kilometers, ranking low among the sea-crossing bridges that have been built in China, and even less than the 55-kilometer-long, cost-120 billion Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge and the 36-kilometer-long Hangzhou Bay Bridge. Why hasn't a bridge been built between Hainan and Guangdong, which is less than 20 kilometers away?
In 1994, Hainan and Guangdong jointly proposed a plan for the cross-sea project of the Qiongzhou Strait, but no substantial progress has been made so far. Last year, the Zhanhai high-speed rail plan was released, and the ferry plan was still chosen, and the construction of the cross-sea bridge still seemed to be far away. The Zhanhai high-speed rail project has a total investment of more than 50 billion yuan, a design speed of 350 kilometers and an hour, and is planned to be completed within four years. The Qiongzhou Strait ferry project route is about 23 kilometers long, and the new north-south ferry station is built, and the sailing time is about one and a half hours.
When will the Qiongzhou Strait Bridge be included in the construction schedule? Perhaps we need our common attention and expectation, and I believe that with the joint efforts of all parties, the construction of this bridge will be approaching day by day.
When do you think the Qiongzhou Strait Bridge should be completed?