Shanghai Metro 上海地铁

[big-dog]

Line 10 first opening day pictures
by wqeye of http://club.metrofans.sh.cn

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[big-dog]

Line 10 first opening day pictures
by wqeye of http://club.metrofans.sh.cn

[staff]

Great pics!

[foxmulder]

I loooove brand new stuff.

[Severiano]

我很喜歡10號線繁體字的大字壁！

[NCT]

The Global Times, an English subsidiary of the People's Daily, published a damning article on Shanghai's metro construction.

Homes ruined by foundation troubles
Source: Global Times [09:38 July 13 2010]

By Liu Dong

With the typhoon season approaching next month, residents living near new subway lines are worried further hardship is coming with more flooding in their homes expected, due to poor construction that has caused the foundation of their homes to deteriorate.
Despite repeated attempts to lobby authorities, urging them to fix the problem that began affecting residential buildings close to the Guilin Road station along the Line 9 subway as early as 2008, when its construction work began, residents have not received help in repairing the eroding foundation beneath their homes.

"Our building has sunk something like 15 centimeters over the past two years," Li Jisheng, who lives on the ground floor at one of the residential compounds on Yishan Road near the Guilin Road station in Xuhui district, told the Global Times Monday. "Whenever it rains a lot, my home floods and sometimes the water levels reach up to 10 centimeters.

"My furniture gets all wet and sometimes I lose power in my home," said the man, who has a banner hanging in protest outside his home that reads: "Our building is leaning, falling and splitting apart, and is not safe."

Similar problems have been experienced by residents near the Jiangsu Road station along the Line 11 subway, construction for which began in 2007. Though these homes have passed government safety inspections, with the most recent one conducted last year by the Shanghai Housing Quality Inspection Station, residents say the results were skewered.

Sneaking suspicions

"The report must have been manipulated because the reality of the situation is really bad," Xu Jinyan, a resident living near the Jiangsu Road station in Changning district, told the Global Times Monday. "The walls are starting to crack, and even my microwave and washing machine have stopped working properly."

But Zhao Jun, director of the Construction and Transportation Commission in Changning district, the government body in charge of the inspections, said that the foundation for the buildings are fine, measuring six per thousand of inclination, below 10 per thousand, which is the national standard for concern.

Though buildings with a foundation of such a measurement are not in danger of collapsing, without reinforcement, the problem will worsen over time, Chen Shuli, an architect from Shanghai Construction and Design Research Institute, told the Global Times Monday.

"Such buildings will sink deeper if their foundation is not properly supported," he said. "This problem can cause a lot of headache for residents."

Some people say most of the problems are experience by old style 6-storey Xincun buildings before 1997, when regulations did not require square posts in the foundations. Sewarage systems of these buildings have been blocked too.

[BarbaricManchurian]

demolish and relocate them, a few hundred extra relocations really shouldn't be that hard for the local government

[NCT]

Not in that respect. But remember these are the people who were relocated to their present location not long ago and it really isn't fair to tell the same family to keep moving constantly. I just think they should have taken more care in constructing the metro network, and if it was inevitable the older buildings wouldn't stand then the families should have been relocated earlier without having to suffer from subsidence and blocked sewerage.

[clee02]

Shanghai's Metro is ginormous...and all the new stuff makes it even cooler. Will definitely visit it again.

[BarbaricManchurian]

Originally Posted by NCT

Not in that respect. But remember these are the people who were relocated to their present location not long ago and it really isn't fair to tell the same family to keep moving constantly. I just think they should have taken more care in constructing the metro network, and if it was inevitable the older buildings wouldn't stand then the families should have been relocated earlier without having to suffer from subsidence and blocked sewerage.

1997 is a pretty long time ago as far as living in the same house...anyway, this problem shouldn't have happened in the first place with the shoddy construction on public works (private buildings is a whole other subject, but public works are important to all the residents and should be held to the highest standard), but you know, shit happens, and they need to mitigate it after the fact the best way they could.

[NCT]

Originally Posted by BarbaricManchurian

1997 is a pretty long time ago as far as living in the same house...anyway, this problem shouldn't have happened in the first place with the shoddy construction on public works (private buildings is a whole other subject, but public works are important to all the residents and should be held to the highest standard), but you know, shit happens, and they need to mitigate it after the fact the best way they could.

Oh agree totally. They simply rushed it too much. Quite honestly I don't mind having things ready for after the expo as long as what they build is good for the next 10 years and 100 years.

[maldini]

Originally Posted by BarbaricManchurian

demolish and relocate them, a few hundred extra relocations really shouldn't be that hard for the local government

These building are ancient buildings and should be preserved.

[maldini]

Originally Posted by NCT

Oh agree totally. They simply rushed it too much. Quite honestly I don't mind having things ready for after the expo as long as what they build is good for the next 10 years and 100 years.

What type of tiles are they using for paving the ground in the stations now?
There are some older stations where the tiles are stained already.

[NCT]

Originally Posted by maldini

These building are ancient buildings and should be preserved.

The buildings in question are mostly post-80 Xincun buildings, not all built with good quality.

Originally Posted by maldini

What type of tiles are they using for paving the ground in the stations now?
There are some older stations where the tiles are stained already.

I think it's mainly due to high volumes of people and groundwater that always seeps through.

[big-dog]

Line10 extension to Hongqiao airport T1 and T2 will open by the end of this month. Line 17 and 20 are under planning, both will be built in 5 years.

http://sh.sina.com.cn/news/s/2010-10-22/1421159722.html

[NCT]

About time that section of Line 10 is opened, as when the Shanghai - Hangzhou rail services all move to Hongqiao Line 2 won't cope on its own.

[big-dog]

56km line 22 to open on Oct 1 2011

http://sh.sina.com.cn/news/s/2010-10-28/0831160417.html

[big-dog]

56km line 22 to open on Oct 1 2011

http://sh.sina.com.cn/news/s/2010-10-28/0831160417.html

[Geography]

That is surprising since Wikipedia says Line 22 is in the planning stages and due to open "before 2020."

[big-dog]

The construction has started August 2009 from the news.