KOREA | Urban Transport Compilation

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Busan Subway Naeng-Jeong Station













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Ui-Sinseol LRT to start construction next month

Seoul City Government announced the construction for Ui-Sinseol LRT will begin next month. Ui-Trance, the company in charge with Ui-Sinseol LRT project, had difficulty to fund this project because of global financial crisis but Seoul City Government, in order to solve traffic problem, decided to put city's money on this project priorly.

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Ui-Sinseol LRT



The first-ever light rail transit network to be built in Seoul with completion slated for 2013, the UI-Sinseol light rail transit network with 13 stations and one transit base will span a total of 11.4 km between Samyang Intersection, Jeongneung, Arirang Uphill Path and Sungshin Women’s University stations. Based on the BTO (Build-Transfer-Operation) method, the project will allow the city of Seoul to take over ownership of the light rail transit system once it is completed, but its operating rights will be held by a private business for the first 30 years.

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New Train for Seoul Subway Line 3

Seoul Subway Line 3 has been operating a total of 480 subway cars, of which an estimated 340 cars will have to be switched with new ones as they come to the retirement age of 25 years from 2009 to 2010.

The debut date of new train is not decided but it would be on May or June, 2009.








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[harsh1802]

Cool pics. Those rakes seem to have awesome space inside.

[Mussoda]

those new cars looks very cute.

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More images of new train for Seoul Subway Line 3


new and old train


new train


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interior


automated doors between cars


interior


LCD Route Map

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[city_thing]

Those new sets are huge on the inside. Won't that [possibly] increase dwelling times at stations?

Are all Seoul Subway trains as big?

They look great, I'm horribly jealous!

[ddes]

I'm guessing the Seoul Subway's rolling stock is about 3.2m wide. That's about basic subway widths, Singapore's rolling stock is also 3.2m wide.

Line 3 new rolling stock looks great. No offense but the exterior's sides look like those Japanese ones. Love the front though.

[hkskyline]

The interiors of Seoul's subway trains are very big. There is also plenty of racks above seats to store bags and briefcases. That being said, I'm surprised the racks are still there ... isn't it a security threat considering gas masks are readily available at subway stations?

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Those new sets are huge on the inside. Won't that [possibly] increase dwelling times at stations?
Are all Seoul Subway trains as big?
They look great, I'm horribly jealous!

the width of most trains in seoul subway is about +- 3.2m.

I'm guessing the Seoul Subway's rolling stock is about 3.2m wide. That's about basic subway widths, Singapore's rolling stock is also 3.2m wide.

Line 3 new rolling stock looks great. No offense but the exterior's sides look like those Japanese ones. Love the front though.

yes, some korean railroad fans also said the side of the train looks like the japanese train of some line, which I can't remember the name now.

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Originally Posted by hkskyline

The interiors of Seoul's subway trains are very big. There is also plenty of racks above seats to store bags and briefcases. That being said, I'm surprised the racks are still there ... isn't it a security threat considering gas masks are readily available at subway stations?

well most of peoples, including me, even may not know about gas masks being there in subway and i think there're no serious threats enough to strengthen the security measures now.

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Seoul Metropolitan Area Express Railways Proposed


Seoul Metropolitan Area Express Railways, so called GTX(Great Train Express), will be constructed by 2016 if MLTM (Ministry of Land, Transportation and Maritime Affairs), Seoul and Incheon city government agree on it, Gyeonggi Provincial Government officially announced today.




Features

- Securing a quick access to Seoul downtown
-- High Speed Train : 200km/h ( maximum speed), 100km/h ( average commercial speed )
-- Running 50m below ground level
-- Minimizing the number of station

- Routes
-- Kintex <-> Dongtan : 77.6km
-- Gumjyeong <-> Uijeongbu : 49.3km
-- Cheongnayngni <-> Songdo : 50.3km
-- Total 177.2km

- Projected Fare
-- 2500-3000 Won ( about 1.9 dollar - 2.3 dollar )

- Construction Cost
-- about 13 billion dollars (estimation)
-- the cost will be financed by private sector(60%), development gains from new residential site around seoul(20%), central and provincial goverment(20%)

- Projected Date
-- Construction begins 2011 or 12, to be completed in 2016

- Problems
-- there can be trouble to make up and share the enormous costs
-- the possibility that seoul doesn't agree on this project
-- legal problem : Gyeonggi government say they don't have to compensate the land on tunnel, but the law is not clear about it.
-- inhabitants on tunnel may feel uncomfort about the tunnel passing below their home so that it may cause legal disputes or civil appeals.

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I don't like this project because it's too costly and I think with this amount of money they can make several subways and give passensers this kind of express services with less fares. Although one line would be possible, but the cost would not allow the whole project to be passed, I reckon.

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I think the GTX idea is terrific. Although Seoul benefits from having a huge subway network with many lines and large trains, there isn't a proper commuter rail network. Some of the lines (Line 1, Bundang) perform that function, but except for the southern stretch of Line 1, they pass through urbanized areas. Some of these lines operate with unbearable crush loads at rush hour, too. There are so many people on Line 1 between Yongsan and Guro late at night, for example, it's hard to breathe, especially in winter when the heat is on (in spite of all the body heat all the passengers generate). I don't miss that at all. In any case, considering the sprawl and the huge population of the Seoul region, I think a high-speed commuter rail system is a good idea. The distance from the outer suburbs turns the commute into a real time suck. Something needs to be done about that. And I noticed Songdo was the terminus of Line C. For it to have the kind of impact its developers want, quick access to Seoul will be an absolute necessity. Foreign residents and businesspeople will not tolerate such a remote location for long. I don't know if this proposal will go anywhere, but I do think it's a good idea.

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Originally Posted by sterlinglush

I think the GTX idea is terrific. Although Seoul benefits from having a huge subway network with many lines and large trains, there isn't a proper commuter rail network. Some of the lines (Line 1, Bundang) perform that function, but except for the southern stretch of Line 1, they pass through urbanized areas. Some of these lines operate with unbearable crush loads at rush hour, too. There are so many people on Line 1 between Yongsan and Guro late at night, for example, it's hard to breathe, especially in winter when the heat is on (in spite of all the body heat all the passengers generate). I don't miss that at all. In any case, considering the sprawl and the huge population of the Seoul region, I think a high-speed commuter rail system is a good idea. The distance from the outer suburbs turns the commute into a real time suck. Something needs to be done about that. And I noticed Songdo was the terminus of Line C. For it to have the kind of impact its developers want, quick access to Seoul will be an absolute necessity. Foreign residents and businesspeople will not tolerate such a remote location for long. I don't know if this proposal will go anywhere, but I do think it's a good idea.

The problem is , as you said, it pass through the downtown areas. yes, just passing through, it means they can't distribute the exsiting traffic by adding new rails , rather it will make it worse because, with a quick acess to the heart of seoul downtown, there will be more persons who transter to the current line, especially Line 2. Of course someone would benefit from riding from one point to one point quickly, reducing that amount of passensers, but the would-be-increased passengers to downtown subway can't be solved by this means. Someone could get there at their destination directly, so no traffic adding, but how it would be if they have to transfer to the exsiting line and there're bunch of peoples like that? If I'm a seoul mayor, I will not agree on this project.

[Jaroslaw]

Originally Posted by sterlinglush

...Some of these lines operate with unbearable crush loads at rush hour, too. There are so many people on Line 1 between Yongsan and Guro late at night, for example, it's hard to breathe, especially in winter when the heat is on (in spite of all the body heat all the passengers generate). I don't miss that at all. ...

That's because Korail just doesn't run enough trains, even during rush hour the headways are way too long, and at night they make you wait as long as ten or fifteen minutes, they're cheap that way.

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Originally Posted by Jaroslaw

That's because Korail just doesn't run enough trains, even during rush hour the headways are way too long, and at night they make you wait as long as ten or fifteen minutes, they're cheap that way.

Well I don't know which station you refer to and the headway, depending on where you live, may be various, but Guro station's headway at RH time is, for example, like this. I don't think it's too long headway.

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New train for Seoul Subway Line 3

Video from news clip

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So GTX is Seoul's answer to the RER?