AUTHORITIES have set up additional 2,400 parking lots near Gucun Park in Baoshan District to cope with the expected jump in visitors for the annual Cherry Blossom Festival which begins tomorrow.

Traffic police said the temporary parking spaces along the roads leading to the park besides the park’s original parking lots can accommodate 5,400 cars per day during the festival, which ends in mid-April.

Four more buses will be added to the dozens of bus lines to the park on weekends. More buses will be dispatched if the number of visitors soars, Zhang Zhong, director of the park, said yesterday.