Beijing to add bicycles, crack down on illegal parking

Beijing transit authorities are targeting illegal roadside parking in bicycle lanes, and plan to further increase cycling infrastructure by the end of this year.

The campaign, including measures to set up segregated bicycle lanes, will improve cycling on 248 kilometers of roads in nine areas, including the Second Ring Road, Nanluoguxiang and Shichahai area, the Olympic Center and Zhongguancun West area, the Beijing Commission of Transportation said in a statement on Tuesday.

For auxiliary roads less than nine meters wide, the authority will cancel all the roadside parking and set up bicycle lanes, the authority said. To ensure the rights of bicyclists, the authority will set up segregation facilities and paint sections of pavement dedicated to cycling.