Hubei Yiba Highway

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The development objective of the Hubei Yiba Highway Project for China is to improve passenger and freight flows in the Yichang-Badong corridor by construction of an expressway with enhanced environmental management practices. There are two components to the project. The first component of the project is Yichang-Badong expressway. The construction of an expressway of about 173.6 km with a design speed of 80 km/hour connecting Yichang City and Badong County at the border of Hubei and Chongqing Municipality including land acquisition and resettlement, the relevant electrical and mechanical (E&M) facilities, annex areas, toll plazas and buildings, seven interchanges, and about 35.4 km of interconnecting roads to improve integration with the local road network. The second component of the project is institutional strengthening. There will four institutional strengthening activities: (a) training program; (b) preparation of guides to improve environmental monitoring and management; (c) carrying out: (i) a study on tunnel safety, (ii) research on Hubei's comprehensive transport and logistics development plan, and (iii) a study on design approaches to reduce the risk of landslide and other geological disasters during expressway construction and operations; and (d) provision of equipment for expressway management and environmental monitoring. These activities will support the sustainability of the project through improvements to environmental protection, environmental monitoring, and safety for tunnel construction. The equipment will be used to enhance road maintenance, while the overall capacity of the Hubei Provincial Communications Department (HPCD) will be improved through training.