Hangzhou's "Smooth Western Access" Three-Year Action Plan (2015-2017) includes 7 rail transit projects and 17 expressway network projects. What is the current progress of these projects? The editor consulted the Municipal Construction Committee. Let's take a look.
Rail Transit
Metro Line 2 Phase I Northwest Section

 

Total length about 11.8 km, with 11 stations. The main structure construction of 5 stations, including Qingchun Square Station, Qingling Road Station, Gucui Road Station, Gucui Road Station, and Fengtan Road Station, has been completed.
The left and right tunnels of the Qianjiang Road Station-Qingchun Square Station section, the right tunnel of the Qingchun Square Station-Qingling Road Station section, and the left tunnel of the Fengtan Road Station-Gucui Road Station section, totaling 4 tunnel sections, have been completed.
The line is scheduled to open for operation in 2018.
Metro Line 2 Phase II Project
Total length about 11.28 km. All 8 stations on the line have entered the main structure construction stage.
The line is scheduled to open for operation in 2018.
Metro Line 5 Phase I Project Total length about 26.96 km, with 19 stations. Currently, 5 stations including Shuangpu Station have started construction.
The line is scheduled to open for operation by the end of 2019.
Metro Line 3 Project
Included in the third phase of rail transit construction planning. The expert preliminary review meeting has been completed and the project has been officially submitted to the Provincial Development and Reform Commission and the Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development. Total length about 34.7 km, with 12 stations. Currently, the experimental section (elevated section between Science and Technology City Station and Nanfeng Village Station) has started construction.
The construction period is from 2015 to 2019, and it will be completed and put into use simultaneously with Metro Line 5. Total length about 23.15 km, with 11 stations. Currently, the experimental section (elevated section between Science and Innovation Park Station and Shoujiang Station) has started construction.
It will connect with Metro Line 6 at the Xiangshan Station of the China Academy of Art and is scheduled to be completed and open to traffic simultaneously with Metro Line 6 in 2019.
Urban Expressway West Double Line Hangzhou-Shaoxing Section Project The starting point is near Jiangjiashan at the border of Deqing and Yuhang, and the endpoint connects to the Zhibu Hub of the Hangzhou-Jinhua-Quzhou Expressway. The total length is about 99.43 km. It is planned to start construction at the end of 2015 and be completed and open to traffic at the end of 2018.
Jihong-Zijin'gang-Zizhi-Zhipu Expressway The Wenyi Road underground tunnel (Zijin'gang Road - Baochu North Road) (including the Zijin'gang Interchange): the north-south main line of the Zijin'gang Interchange will be completed and open to traffic by the end of June 2016, and the entire project will be completed by the end of 2017; the BOT tunnel section is planned to be completed in 2018.
The Wenyi Road upgrading and reconstruction project (West Ring Line - Zijin'gang Interchange) will start construction before the end of the year and be completed simultaneously with the Wenyi Road underground tunnel.
Tianmu-Huanbei-Genshan Expressway
The Tianmu Mountain Road upgrading and reconstruction projects (Gucui Road - Zhonghe Interchange) and (West Ring Line - Gucui Road) strive to start construction before the end of this year; the Liuxia Interchange upgrading and reconstruction project strives to start construction before the end of this year and will be implemented simultaneously with the Tianmu Mountain Road upgrading and reconstruction project.