[photopress:shanghaimetro.jpg,full,alignright]By 2010 the Metro line network in Shanghai will be among the world biggest three. According to the Shanghai Evening Post it will be in the top three. There will then by eleven lines carrying over a third of the population — 5.8 million passengers — every day.
The 11 lines, which will run for 400 kilometers, will carry 35 percent of the city’s public transport in 2010. At the moment it carries about 13 percent with five Metro lines, carrying 1.8 million people every day.
Now there are transfer hubs at People’s Square, Xujiahui, Century Avenue, Longyang Road and Hongqiao Road but the city plans to set up 16 more Metro line transfer hubs each connecting to at least three lines.
It is also trying to develop 20 key homemade technologies for the network, including network operation automatic monitoring, driverless system technology, and urban track transportation rolling stock type A.
The Metro line’s automatic ticket selling machine won the first prize at this year’s Shanghai science and technology awards. The machine is jointly developed by Shanghaig Shentong Metro and Shanghai Huateng Software System.
Source: Shanghai Daily