BEIJING | Public Transport

[saiho]

Originally Posted by Pedro EM

Like the interior. But the Chinese know how to get things done unlike the Europeans who seem to take forever trying to sort out their red tape issues.

Still Europe is better than North America who seem to take forever trying to figure out why they need public transit and then take forever trying to sort out their red tape issues.

[webeagle12]

Originally Posted by Pedro EM

Like the interior. But the Chinese know how to get things done unlike the Europeans who seem to take forever trying to sort out their red tape issues.

I guess you never been in US where nothing gets accomplished at all.

[hmmwv]

Originally Posted by big-dog

New metro train

Made by China South Locomotive & Rolling Stock Corporation, the new train will run on Beijing Metro line 14 in 2013

--weibo

I like the evacuation ramp, most others flip down the door and use it as a ramp, as a result it's much steeper.

[big-dog]

Four lines to open on December 30th 2012

• Line 10 phase II
• Line 6
• Line 8 phase II
• Line 9 North

The new lines will add 70km to Beijing Subway and make it a 442km metro network.

In 2013 four sections will open (22km), including Line 14 west, Line 8 Gulou to Art Library, Changping-Batong connection line, Line 10 remaining stations.

Source: Beijing Subway Opening

[saiho]

Originally Posted by big-dog

Four lines to open on December 30th 2012

• Line 10 phase II
• Line 6
• Line 8 phase II
• Line 9 North

The new lines will add 70km to Beijing Subway and make it a 442km metro network.

In 2013 four sections will open (22km), including Line 14 west, Line 8 Gulou to Art Library, Changping-Batong connection line, Line 10 remaining stations.

Source: Beijing Subway Opening

What is the Changping-Batong connection line? It sounds intense cause Batong and Changping are like on opposite sides of the city or is that the line 8 north extension to the Changping line?

[xavier114fch]

Originally Posted by saiho

What is the Changping-Batong connection line? It sounds intense cause Batong and Changping are like on opposite sides of the city or is that the line 8 north extension to the Changping line?

It should be Chang-ba connection (昌八聯絡線 in Chinese). Literally it means the connection line between Line 8 and Changping Line, and it is actually the northern extension of Line 8 to Zhuxinzhuang Station.

[CNGL]

That was exactly my though, I was surprised with a connection from North to East Beijing but then I realized was line 8 North (West). I believe this happened because the first hanzi for Batong is also number 8.

[saiho]

Originally Posted by CNGL

That was exactly my though, I was surprised with a connection from North to East Beijing but then I realized was line 8 North (West). I believe this happened because the first hanzi for Batong is also number 8.

Yes the hanzi for ba in batong is 8 in Chinese.

[xavier114fch]

Originally Posted by big-dog

Four lines to open on December 30th 2012

• Line 10 phase II
• Line 6
• Line 8 phase II
• Line 9 North

The new lines will add 70km to Beijing Subway and make it a 442km metro network.

In 2013 four sections will open (22km), including Line 14 west, Line 8 Gulou to Art Library, Changping-Batong connection line, Line 10 remaining stations.

Source: Beijing Subway Opening

Line 14 West (7 stations from Xiqu) is scheduled to finish on 5/5/2013, and people are expecting the remaining stations of Line 10 can be open together with Line 14 West.

[big-dog]

Xavier is correct. It's line 8 not Batong.

[chornedsnorkack]

And since 26th of December, Beijing West shall be served by Longhua-Beijing high speed railway. How convenient shall Line 9, as of 30th, be to reach Beijing West station from all places around Beijing?

[saiho]

For starters its finally connected to the network. It will have transfers to 1, 4, 6, 10 and fangshan.

[:jax:]

Based on Beijing West and Being South today it will be far better than the alternatives. The traffic situation around Beijing West is a mess. Driving, taking a bus or a taxi is singularly unattractive. The HSR system moves a frighteningly high number of passengers around. I have taken taxi a couple times from Beijing South, and the taxi queues are the longest I have seen in my life, even with two rows of continuously arriving taxies they are also among the slowest. You can spend longer waiting in line than it took you to travel from Tianjin in the first place.

The metro system is somewhat overwhelmed too, but at least it can handle it, 2-3 metro trains seem enough to take the surge from one HSR train.

My dream would be a Beijing HSR circle line connecting the HSR stations around the city (and allow you to travel from one end of the city to another in less than an hour). That doesn't quite seem to happen, but a few tunnels and higher-speed metro are proposed.

[SimFox]

Map of a Beijing underground on the Metro station building from Tropico4 Modern Times:

[big-dog]

that doesn't include the lines to be opened by the end of this year (2012). After this week Beijing Subway might be the longest of the kind in the world?

[Falubaz]

I think Shanghai will still be the longest metro in the World after adding pretty much to the system in Beijing in this phase. But in the future Beijing might build more and surpass Shanghai.

[_Night City Dream_]

This year Shanghai is not adding so much to its mileage, unfortunately.

[:jax:]

2013 is not going to be a big year in Beijing either, mostly finishing touches on 2014 plus a "prequel" to 2014, another great year. From an earlier post:

Originally Posted by big-dog

Predictions from local forumers:

2013: Line 14 West, Line 8 phase II south, Changping, ChangBa (Changping-line 8 connection)
2014: Line 6 Phase II, Line 7, Line 14, Line 15 West, Xijiao Line
2015: Changping Line phase II, L2, Yanfang
2016: Line 6 West
2017: Line 8 phase III, Line 16, Shanhou Line
2018: Line 3 West, Line 3 East, (Pinggu Line)
2019: Line 12, R2
2020: Line 3 Middle, R1, S6, New Airport line, (Pinggu Line)

ditiezu.com

Add to this the southwestern bite of line 10.

Initially I was confused by "Line 8 phase II south", but that was just the missing few stations connecting line 8 with line 6, not the more significant expansion southward, Wangfujing-Qianmen-Dahongmen-beyond, listed for 2017 above.

[big-dog]

12.30 Four new subway lines open today

They are Line 6 phase I, Line 8 phase II south, Line 9 north and Line 10 phase II. The new lines will add 69.8km to the current network, which totals 442km, 261 stations and 37 interchanges.

Source

[The Chemist]

Originally Posted by _Night City Dream_

This year Shanghai is not adding so much to its mileage, unfortunately.

Yes, but there will be quite a bit next year and in 2014.