The Modern Boulevard is 100m wide overall with 25m landscape edges, 4.0m wide bicycle lanes separated from the three-lane roadway by a landscaped median strip, and is the main eastern entry from Shanghai to Suzhou and Suzhou Industrial Park.
The boulevard extends for 9 kilometres with the character of the boulevard changing from east to west as the land uses change from industrial to residential, mixed use commercial, office and cultural in the west. Landscaping along the modern boulevard is an integral part of the green network of open spaces for community recreation, designed with future development connection nodes.