The traffic management department calls the safe and smooth roads "greenways". In landscape design, greenway has a deeper and broader connotation, and this concept originated in the 1970s. The English translation of "greenway" is divided into two parts: "green" means natural existence-such as forest banks, wild animals and so on; "Tao" is the channel. Generally speaking, it means a natural corridor that intersects with the artificially developed landscape.

In China, "greenway" has three concepts: landscape design, sociology and transportation.

First of all, it refers to a "green" landscape route. Generally, natural and artificial corridors such as riverside, valley, ridge, scenic roads and ditches are built for tourists and cyclists to roam, forming a strip-shaped landscape patch corridor closely integrated with the natural ecological environment, undertaking the flow of information, energy and materials, promoting the effective circulation within the landscape ecosystem and strengthening the connection between dense patches.

2. Sociology: We should not only build a "green road" in nature, but also lay a "green road" in people's hearts, so that the government can communicate smoothly with the people, so that the people can express their interests without obstacles and fear, and improve the "livable level" of spiritual life.

3. Transportation: refers to the green open space corridor system based on natural elements, with natural and human landscape river leisure facilities as series nodes, and composed of slow-moving system and service facilities. Greenway consists of green corridor, slow lane, post station and sign system. Among them, the green corridor plays a role in ensuring the basic ecological function of the greenway and creating a good landscape environment; Slow lanes can be divided into three types according to different ways of use: pedestrian lanes, bicycle lanes and comprehensive slow lanes. Post station is the main carrier of greenway service facilities; The identification system generally includes information, explanation, regulations and safety warning signs, and has many functions such as explanation, guidance, prohibition, warning, popular science, publicity and education.

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