Chinanews, Beijing, September 18 - Beijing has begun to reap the result of its huge investment on public transportation. According to the latest statistics by Zhao Wenzhi, director of Beijing Municipal Commission of Communication, 28.1% of Beijingers prefer public transportation, and the first time that it has regained growth in recent few years.

 

The popularization of municipal administration and communication card has also boosted bus transportation to grow by 4% and metro by 8%. The first bus line along the city's north-south axis has been put to use, and it has taken up 40% of passenger transportation there. Beijing is planning to set up similar bus lines in other parts of the city.

 

Though achievement has been made, Beijing is still far away from its goal of making public transportation take up 40% of passenger transportation by 2010, and the municipal government will invest another 100 billion yuan to improve it.