Today, the city of Yichang, in China’s central Hubei province and the site of the Three Gorges Dam, opened a major transportation and urban development project largely funded by an Asian Development Bank loan. The Yichang bus rapid transit corridor, initially on Dongshan Avenue in the city center, will serve half a million daily passenger trips, providing citywide high quality transit service through ‘direct service’ BRT routes which operate both inside and outside the BRT corridor. The...
