BEIJING | Public Transport

[drunkenmunkey888]

Wait no, why is beijing going to have the largest subway network in the world? Isnt the shanghai subway supposed to have over 800 km in 2020, making it around 240 km larger than the beijing subway?

[Kenwen]

I think this is because cities in china are competiting against eachother

[Tubeman]

I didn't think London was the biggest anyway?

[staff]

Isn't London the largest metro system in the world operated by one operated? I guess Tokyo's total metro system is a bit larger though.

[The Cebuano Exultor]

Yeah, your right, Greater Tokyo's entire urban railway network is slightly larger than Greater London's...just slightly.

[Minato ku]

It is about metro.

Tokyo Metro and Toei subway is smaller than London underground.

and Greater Tokyo's entiere urban rail is a lot larger than Greater London urban railway network.

[Alargule]

Only problem is that Tokyo's metro lines and suburban railways share the same tracks in the city center - making it difficult to speak of two independent systems.

[Alargule]

[z0rg]

The 561km map for Beijing is this one. The one you posted must bee a further plan, maybe the out of schedule 1100 km plan they released a couple of years ago. BTW, Guangzhou's subway is topping 550km+ according to plans.

[Minato ku]

Originally Posted by Alargule

Only problem is that Tokyo's metro lines and suburban railways share the same tracks in the city center - making it difficult to speak of two independent systems.

I agree
but in the center of Tokyo metro lines are underground.
Subway lines share the same tracks with the suburban railways at the end of Tokyo (Ginza line, Marunounchi line and Oedo line exclude)

[vtower]

Originally Posted by minato ku

I agree
but in the center of Tokyo metro lines are underground.
Subway lines share the same tracks with the suburban railways at the end of Tokyo (Ginza line, Marunounchi line and Oedo line exclude)

It's called through service operated between the subway companies and private railway companies, so that you can continue your journey on the suburban lines from metro line without transfer. But the total length of London Underground is larger for sure.

[Jim856796]

There should be 8 lines of the Beijing Subway in operation during the 2008 Summer Olympics.

[brisbanite]

Any updated pic's?

[big-dog]

Originally Posted by brisbanite

Any updated pic's?

what an old thread. some of the new line pictures can be found here:

Line 5: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=514310
Line 10: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?p=18495549

There are 11 subway lines under construction now in Beijing. From now to 2015 by schedule, there will be at least one new line opening each year. Here's a Beijing 2008 subway map:

[leo_sh]

Can anyone update the new Line 10 pics?

[alexzhen]

Originally Posted by leo_sh

Can anyone update the new Line 10 pics?

check this out

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=547254

[Letniczka]

From Chinadaily:

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2...nt_6498805.htm

Beijing's Metro Line 10 welcomes its first passengers
By Cui Xiaohuo (China Daily)
Updated: 2008-03-01 09:37


Mrs Zhang is very much looking forward to the opening of Beijing's new Line 10 metro route.

On Friday, the 72-year-old was buffeted and bashed as she tried to get on a bus at Guomao, where she had been visiting her son at his office.

She wanted to get to Shuangjing, she said, but the crowds were so big and boisterous, she kept getting pushed to the back of the queue.

However, she knows that when the new Line 10 opens, her journey will be a lot less stressful.

"I really wish I could take the subway. It's faster and less painful," she said, doing her best to avoid the crowds and passing buses.

Scheduled to open in June, Line 10 will provide a high-speed link for commuters - and their elderly relatives - between Bagou in the west and Jinsong in the south.

On Friday afternoon, Zhou Zhengyu, deputy director of the Beijing municipal committee of communications, joined a group of journalists to try out the new route.

The 15.5-billion-yuan ($2.18 billion), 25-km line, along with two other routes linking the airport and the Olympic Green, will open in June, once testing has been completed - just in time for the millions of Olympic visitors, he said.

"But we won't slow down our construction plans once the Games have finished," Zhou told China Daily inside one of the line's new carriages.

"In fact, we will accelerate our development plans to provide an even better service for the people of Beijing."

Since the opening of Line 5 in October, the number of passengers using the subway has risen by more than a third, he said.

By 2015, Beijing's metro will stretch more than 561 km and feature 420 stations, Zhou said.

The existing network spans 155 km and has 93 stations, with the cost to develop each additional kilometer averaging out at about 500 million yuan, Liu Hongtao, a senior official with the Beijing railway transportation construction corporation, said.

He told China Daily the massive infrastructure project was already progressing well.

"Three lines are close to completion, one is under construction, and ground has been broken at six others," he said.

"The total cost of all the extra lines will be something like 200 billion yuan by 2015," he said.

"The government's usual annual budget for public transport is about 1 billion yuan," Zhou, who will be in charge of public transport in Beijing for the next five years, said.

Wang Hailong, who has worked as a taxi driver in the capital for the past five years is not worried about the metro taking away his business.

"The new subway does us little harm," he said. "And it will certainly ease the pain of millions of people who now travel by bus."

[ChinaboyUSA]

Train of Beijing Metro Line 10







Some renderings of Line 10;

Guomao upper level


Guomao lower level


Guomao Walkway


Nong Zhan Guan upper level


Nong Zhan Guan lower level


Thanks Big-dog

[deasine]

^I love the look of the stations and trains. =D

[mr.x]

The whole layout is very MTR-like. I love it.....same with the interior finishings.