SHANGHAI buses will be able to run “like Metro trains” on a new major thoroughfare, with their own lanes in the center of the road.

Work is due to start soon on the east-to-west Beiheng Passage, which will stretch 19.4 kilometers, linking Changning, Jing’an, Putuo, Zhabei, Hongkou and Yangpu districts.

This will be the first time the city has reserved the center of a road for buses.