Metro lines to add frequency
25/7/2003 15:11
Shanghai Metro Operation Co Ltd, operator of the city's three rail lines,
announced yesterday to add more trains onto the lines and shorten the interim
period between the trains to relieve the over-packed trains.
The company will
add one more train to the Metro Transport Line 2 from next Tuesday so that 15
trains will be serving on the line.
The frequency of the line will be
shortened to 4 minutes from the current 4.5 minutes during the rush
hours.
From mid-September, SMO will add more trains to the Pearl Line, or MT
Line 3, to quicken its frequency to 7.5 minutes from the current 8 minutes
during rush hours.
SMO's quick-up move is launched in response to the soaring
complaints of local rail line passengers that they have to wait too long for a
train, which is usually over-crowded particularly during the rush
hours.
Passenger volume carried by Shanghai's rail lines has seen a boom to
1.2 million a day, SMO said, and the MT Line 2 has seen the biggest boost to
400,000.
To cope with the soaring passengers, SMO has added a combined four
trains to MT Line 1 and Line 2 in the first half-year and shortened the
frequencies for two times.
Jane Chen / Shanghai Daily news
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