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Lanzhou–Zhongchuan Airport intercity railway is a regionalhigher-speed railway located in Gansu Province, connecting the Lanzhou urban area and Lanzhou Zhongchuan Airport. As Zhongchuan Airport is quite distant from the urban area of Lanzhou, regular ground transport currently takes about an hour to make the journey and taxi journeys are expensive at around 150 to 200RMB, but with little to no time advantage over the airport bus service. Thus a higher-speed rail connection was initiated by the Lanzhou government in order to improve access to the airport, but also to the adjacent Lanzhou New Area special economic zone. The journey to the airport now takes from 30 to 40 minutes at a cost of 18.5RMB for Second Class and 22RMB for First Class.
An initial groundbreaking ceremony was held on December 27, 2010. However works were not actually started. On December 21, 2012, another groundbreaking ceremony was held again with full construction now underway.[2] The line started operation on September 30, 2015.[3]
^"敦煌至格尔木和兰州至中川机场铁路开工建设" [Work started on the Dunhuang-Golmud Railway and on the railway from Lanzhou to Zhongchuan Airport] (in Chinese). December 23, 2012.
CR Lanzhou
China Railway High-speed
1 2 (planned)
Tianshui Tram
