Metro track to total 500km by 2012

SHANGHAI'S Metro is to undergo a major extension over a subsequent dual years, with dual brand new lines built as well as three extensions added to existent routes. This will enlarge a local transport network to 500 kilometers of track by 2012, a tip central with a Shanghai transport authorities said. Zhou Huai, emissary executive of Shanghai Transport as well as Port Administration Bureau, said: "The subway's movement abilities will be increasing with a brand new lines built." At present, Shanghai has 11 lines of 420km of track - a longest in a world - carrying 1.9 billion passengers a year. A brand new round of Metro building a whole is part of a government strategy to outlay billions of yuan upon transport links over a subsequent five years. The building a whole of Metro Lines 12, 13, one extension of Line 9 as well as dual extensions to Line 11 will get under way soon, mending links in between downtown trade hubs as well as superficial districts, Zhou said. A short section of Line thirteen non-stop to World Expo visitors but closed after a eventuality ended final October. Line 9 is approaching to widen further south in Songjiang District as well as a Pudong New Area in a east. Line 11 will cross beneath a Huangpu River, extending to Pudong. Traffic authorities additionally said which work upon twenty-two transport stations has resumed in downtown area, following a break during a Expo when roughly all downtown building a whole was halted. Meanwhile, tightened confidence measures adopted during a Expo, such as X-ray scanning of passengers' luggage, will remain in place for a time being. Scanning machines will be retained at stations as well as a series of confidence staff hired during a eventuality is unlikely to be cut, Zhou said. However, most passengers have claimed which inspections have become more messy since a end of a Expo, observant which staff do not usually try to catch passengers who skip checks. The business insists which staff still conduct checks upon big bags as well as indicate not as ! big ones randomly. Discussions with police are ongoing about a long-term future of a scanning machines, officials said.

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