Chinese Metro Transport News & Updates

[AndrewJin]

Is 小东门 or 小红门 still there in wuchang?
I'd love to go back one day revisiting the place I was there some 30 yrs ago. I remember that time people there loved to fight on the streets and loved wearing 喇叭裤.

小东门。Now served by subway line 2/4， and line7 in 2017.


Small East Gate- Hongshan Plaza region

One subway station away from this region is one of Wanda's biggest projects....
Chu River Han Street

 

[Tiqiu]

Wow the cinema is still there. The old 群众文化中心 is also there with a new name. It's like walking through time for me to see your wonderful pictures. Thanks

 

[AndrewJin]

Wow the cinema is still there. The old 群众文化中心 is also there with a new name. It's like walking through time for me to see your wonderful pictures. Thanks

Which building?

 

[AndrewJin]

Another great news from the southwest province in infrastructure
Mengzi Tram will open soon
Mengzi City, Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture
Yunnan Province, Southwest China

@TaiShang @Shotgunner51 @cirr @JSCh @anant_s @Götterdämmerung @Tiqiu @GeraltofRivia

 

[powastick]

Another great news from the southwest province in infrastructure
Mengzi Tram will open soon
Mengzi City, Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture
Yunnan Province, Southwest China

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@TaiShang @Shotgunner51 @cirr @JSCh @anant_s @Götterdämmerung @Tiqiu @GeraltofRivia

Is this a big city?

 

[AndrewJin]

Is this a big city?

No, 5th tier city I guess, county-level city.
But when Mengzi, Gejiu and Kaiyuan (all in Honghe Autonomous Prefecture) merge into one city, it might become a tier 3 city in the future.....The metro (trams) is being constructed to facilitate the merging.

Expressways in this are very convenient, you can even see a ring expressway, which is usually a sign of a big city in the making....

Mengzi City

Gejiu City

 

[TaiShang]

Beijing's 1st maglev Line S1 to begin operating in 2017

Source: Xinhua | 2016-12-25

A technician introduces Beijing's first medium-low speed maglev Line S1 in Beijing, capital of China. The Line S1, which connects the city's western district of Mentougou to the Pingguoyuan subway station in Shijingshan district, is expected to begin operating in 2017. With a maximum speed of 100 kilometers per hour, the train will stop at eight stations and serve about 1,302 passengers at a time. (Xinhua/Luo Xiaoguang)

@cirr , @Tiqiu , @long_ @ahojunk @Viet

 

[AndrewJin]

Beijing's 1st maglev Line S1 to begin operating in 2017

Source: Xinhua | 2016-12-25

A technician introduces Beijing's first medium-low speed maglev Line S1 in Beijing, capital of China. The Line S1, which connects the city's western district of Mentougou to the Pingguoyuan subway station in Shijingshan district, is expected to begin operating in 2017. With a maximum speed of 100 kilometers per hour, the train will stop at eight stations and serve about 1,302 passengers at a time. (Xinhua/Luo Xiaoguang)

@cirr , @Tiqiu , @long_ @ahojunk @Viet

So many great news during the last week of 2016!
Numerous subways, HSRs, expressways to open within one week.

Subway Line 6, one station dedicated to the century old Hankou Railway Station

 

[JSCh]

China's first self-developed driverless subway line to open in Hong Kong

Leung Chun-ying, chief executive of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, attended a ceremony at Ocean Park station on Dec 19 to mark the inauguration of the South Island Line.

Hong Kong government launched the seven-km line project in 2007.

When it opens to passengers, it will extend the MTR network to the Southern District, allowing the special administrative region's 18 districts to be served by rail.

A fleet of 10 three-car driverless trains will run on the South Island Line, connecting the Southern District with the existing Tsuen Wan Line and Island Line at Admiralty. The CRRC Changchun Railway Vehicles Co manufactured the driverless trains using technologies developed by China. The first driverless train was produced at a factory in Hong Kong on March 18 this year.

A technician from China Railway Rolling Stock Corp said the line is the first one to use domestically developed and produced driverless subway trains in the country. "Compared with the normal subway trains, the driverless trains have fully automatic control system," the technician said.

Three "driverless" lines have been in operation in Guangzhou, Beijing and Shanghai, but the technician said these lines still needed operators in drivers' cabins, and the trains were developed by a foreign company. Driverless trains started to emerge in Japan and France in early 1980s.

Meanwhile, China's self-developed technologies began to mature in recent years and CRRC Sifang Co has exported its driverless trains to Singapore, the technician said. A newly constructed line in Beijing will also use the driverless trains supplied by the CRRC Changchun Railway Vehicles Co, he said.

An open day will be held on Dec 24 at the new South Island Line stations and the extended part of Admiralty Station for passengers to visit and familiarize themselves with the new station facilities.


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Wednesday, December 28, 2016, 12:08
HK: MTR’s South Island Line opens
By chinadailyasia.com

 

[AndrewJin]

Wednesday, December 28, 2016, 12:08
HK: MTR’s South Island Line opens
By chinadailyasia.com

On 26th Dec, Hefei's first subway opened.
Today, 2 subways open in Wuhan.....

 

[AndrewJin]

Such a historic day for Wuhan's public transport industry!
@Chinese Bamboo

Wuhan unveils 5 urban construction projects

It will be an important day in the history of Wuhan, capital city of central China's Hubei Province on December 28, 2016. Five urban construction projects open to public, as Wuhan Metro Airport line, Wuhan Metro line 6, renovated Zhongshan Avenue, East Lake Greenway and Xiongchu Boulevard Bus Rapid Transit (BRT), which will make residents' life more convenient in the city.


Wuhan Metro Airport line

The Airport Line is the extension of line 2 to the north. With a length of 19.8 km, it has 7 stations between Jinyintan and Tianhe airport.


Wuhan Metro Line 6

Line 6 is the second line of the Wuhan subway crossing the Han River. With a total length of 35.96 km, it connects Dongfeng Company in the Caidian District and Jinyinhu Park in Dongxihu District with 27 stations of which 11 are transfer stations.


Renovated Zhongshan Avenue (Dr. Sun Yat-sen Ave.)

The renovation project of Zhongshan Avenue aims to make the long-history avenue into cultural and tourist street with public spaces and a vigorous urban life. This project won the 2016 International Society of City and Regional Planners (ISOCARP) Award for Excellence.

Wuhan East Lake Greenway

Wuhan East Lake Greenway, with a total length of 28.7 kilometers, launched in December 2015, aims to encourage residents to walk by the lake, bathe in the water, approach the forests and reach the summits of the assemblies.


Xiongchu Boulevard Bus Rapid Transit

It is Wuhan's first Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) line. It connects Wuchang Railway Station to Guanggu Boulevard, with a length of 13.6 km.

 

[AndrewJin]

This is the most aritistic subway in Wuhan so far...
It opens along with the renovated Dr. Sun Yat-sen Avenue.
The avenue is the oldest major road of the historic old Hankou.
Now, Line 6 will be the major public transport method serving this avenue, traffic jam will no longer exist!

Wuhan Subway Line 6 opens on 28th Dec. 2016

Dr. Sun Yat-sen Avenue reopens!

Hankou water tower, the memory of old Hankou

Entrance to the subway, Jianghan Road Station, line 2 & line 6
I used to go there every day during my junior middle school.

Platform of Jianghan Road Station

LCD screen is artistic too, telling the information of the next stations
Chinese traditional calligraphy style
I'm very glad to see such improvement.
Every detail matters

@cirr @JSCh @TaiShang @GeraltofRivia @Tiqiu @Götterdämmerung @Gibbs @Chinese Bamboo


(to be continued)

 

[AndrewJin]

Hanzheng Street Station, the origin of Wuhan's commerce
Hanzheng Street, literally the Central Street of Hankou, first named in 1920s.

 

[JSCh]

Tuesday, January 03, 2017
Chinese cities open new metro lines
Written by Kevin Smith

A flurry of new metro lines and line extensions opened in cities across China in the final week of 2016.

In addition to Hefei, which opened its first metro line on December 26, in Kunming operations began on a 4.7km extension of Line 1 from Chunrong Street to Kuning South Railway Station on the same day, while in Chongqing in western China, the city celebrated the opening of an extension of its Line 3 monorail from Bijin - Jurenba on December 28.

Also on December 28, Wuhan began operations on a 19.7km extension of Line 2 from Jinyintan north to Tianhe International Airport, adding six new stations to the city’s steadily expanding network. A further 15 stations were also added to Nanning Line 1 with a 20.9km western extension of the east-west line from previous terminus Nanhu to Shibu, which takes the total length of the line to 32.1km.

In the south of the country, a 17.3km extension of Guangzhou Line 6 also opened on December 28, taking the total length of this line to 41.9km. A 6.7km extension of the Guangzhou-Foshan Gunagfo Line from Kuiqi Lu to Xinchengdong carried its first passengers on the same day.

On December 31 Tianjin opened the second phase of Line 6, the Changhong Gongyuan - South Sunzhuang stretch, an extension of the initial Changhong Gongyuan - Nancuiping section which opened in August 2016. The line is now 26km long with 24 stations and is planned to eventually reach 50.1km with 38 stations, linking Xinwaihuandonglu in the northeast with Xianshuigu in the southeast.

Finally, in Beijing, the first trains began operating on the new 19.6km Line 16 on December 31. Running from Beianhe to Xiyuan with nine stations, the latest addition to the world’s second largest metro network takes its total length to 552km.

 

[AndrewJin]

Tuesday, January 03, 2017
Chinese cities open new metro lines
Written by Kevin Smith

A flurry of new metro lines and line extensions opened in cities across China in the final week of 2016.

In addition to Hefei, which opened its first metro line on December 26, in Kunming operations began on a 4.7km extension of Line 1 from Chunrong Street to Kuning South Railway Station on the same day, while in Chongqing in western China, the city celebrated the opening of an extension of its Line 3 monorail from Bijin - Jurenba on December 28.

Also on December 28, Wuhan began operations on a 19.7km extension of Line 2 from Jinyintan north to Tianhe International Airport, adding six new stations to the city’s steadily expanding network. A further 15 stations were also added to Nanning Line 1 with a 20.9km western extension of the east-west line from previous terminus Nanhu to Shibu, which takes the total length of the line to 32.1km.

In the south of the country, a 17.3km extension of Guangzhou Line 6 also opened on December 28, taking the total length of this line to 41.9km. A 6.7km extension of the Guangzhou-Foshan Gunagfo Line from Kuiqi Lu to Xinchengdong carried its first passengers on the same day.

On December 31 Tianjin opened the second phase of Line 6, the Changhong Gongyuan - South Sunzhuang stretch, an extension of the initial Changhong Gongyuan - Nancuiping section which opened in August 2016. The line is now 26km long with 24 stations and is planned to eventually reach 50.1km with 38 stations, linking Xinwaihuandonglu in the northeast with Xianshuigu in the southeast.

Finally, in Beijing, the first trains began operating on the new 19.6km Line 16 on December 31. Running from Beianhe to Xiyuan with nine stations, the latest addition to the world’s second largest metro network takes its total length to 552km.

OMG，i have no clue about what happened in the final week of 2016......
And this article has missed out Wuhan Subway Line 6!

Opening a new subway line in China won't be mentioned in the national news!