On February 13, "People's Political Consultative Conference’s Network" (https://www.rmzxb.com.cn/), "People's Daily" and other media published a report "Lin Xiaohui: Call for the smooth commuting to wake up "Sleeping City" Longhua district as soon as possible". Introduced to the media at the Shenzhen CPPCC Plenary Session on February 13, Lin believed that although many new passages have been opened in Longhua District in recent years, the increase in passages still lags behind the increase in number of vehicles as well as the population, which seriously restricts the inner circulation of the city and reduces the economic efficiency.  It also seriously affects the sense of gain and happiness of the citizens. The traffic bottlenecks need to be solved with great efforts and courage.”

After more than 40 years of development in Shenzhen’s urban road construction, although great progress has been made, there are still obvious shortcomings. Among them, the problem of traffic congestion between Futian District, Nanshan District, and Longhua District has become increasingly prominent, which has become a bottleneck restricting the inner circulation of the districts. Longhua District, which is nicknamed “Sleeping City” on the internet. Due to the separation of jobs and residences for a large number of young people, they work in Futian and Nanshan Science and Technology Park during the day and return to live in Longhua at night, causing enormous pressure on the already congested commuting roads.

"Several main passages connecting Longhua to Futian continue to be congested in the morning and evening peak hours, lasting for half an hour or even an hour or two hours. The congestion time of individual road sections lasts from 7:00 am to more than 10:00 am, and is listed as the most congested road section in Shenzhen all the year round. Some roads have been selected as one of the most congested road sections in Shenzhen for a long time, which discourage Hong Kong young people who originally thought of Longhua to develop and start a business." Dr. Bryan Lin Xiaohui, CPPCC member and had conducted a full investigation, introduced to the media at the Shenzhen CPPCC Plenary Session on February 13. He believes that although new passages have been opened in Longhua District in recent years, but they still lag behind the increase in population and vehicles, which seriously restricts the inner circulation of the city and reduces the efficiency of economic operation; it also seriously affects the sense of gain and happiness of citizens feel. The traffic bottleneck between the two places needs to be solved with great efforts and courage.

How to strengthen the construction of urban road infrastructure to create a livable, resilient and smart city? Lin Xiaohui gave a good prescription: It is recommended to add multiple new passages, to speed up the construction of the Northeast Extension Project of the Qiaocheng, to connect the key areas in the district, and to strengthen the traffic connection between Longhua and the downtown areas. The relevant government departments estimate the travel time of road traffic in the direction of Longhua to the downtown area will be reduced by about 15-20% in the future.

Lin called for speeding up the construction of public transportation such as subways, and drawing on the "P+R transfer" (park and ride) method in developed countries such as Britain and the United States to provide drivers with the option of transferring to subways or buses. He suggested that large public parking lots be built near the subway and bus station in Longhua district, so that people can drive to the edge of traffic congestion, park their cars in the parking lot, and then use the subway or bus to travel. The total commuting time is greatly reduced and the commuting experience will be improved. And adjust the planning or increase the density of Longhua subway in the long-term planning.