Shanghai Metro

• Shanghai Metro

Shanghai Metro - the largest in The length of subway lines in the world (420 km), the daily ridership of more than 7 million people.. Shanghai - the third city in China after Beijing and Tianjin, where the construction of the subway started.

Shanghai Metro

This is one of the youngest and fastest growing metro systems, there are 12 existing lines, and 5 more under construction, including the continuation of the existing ones.

According to long-term plans, by 2025, Shanghai plans to build 11 more subway lines and 10 light rail lines (Skytrain). Unfortunately, I went down into the subway a few times, and I did not like.

Entrance to the subway. Which is convenient, one can see what this line is input.

Shanghai Metro

Shanghai Metro modern, fast and inexpensive, it is kept clean at stations. Design dull, used cheap finishing materials. Metro looks more like a suburban mall. Colored stripes represent lines on the glass color, which belongs to the station.

Shanghai Metro

The Shanghai subway operating system of payment depending on the distance. September 15, 2005 after the increase in the cost ranged from 3 yuan per 3 kilometers to 8 yuan per 46 km. In late 2005, the Shanghai Metro has introduced a single payment system (for the transplant before the line 5 and back passengers had to pay extra, because the lines are owned by different companies).

Shanghai Metro

All tickets sold through vending machines. To organize all - made fence.

Shanghai Metro

To buy a ticket - you need to specify to what the station is going to go, and the system will calculate the fare. Ticket is an ordinary plastic card which exit you need to pass.

Shanghai Metro

At some stations there are inspection points. Things may be asked to pass through a scanner. When you exit are boxes with exposure seized from passengers of prohibited items.

Shanghai Metro

That such an arsenal have collected at one station.

Shanghai Metro

In transit stations is very convenient to make the navigation arrows. Immediately clear where to go.

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Station almost all the same ...

Shanghai Metro

In contrast to many other metro systems in the world, the Shanghai subway is used tokosom top, probably due to the voltage used 1500 - twice as many as in the majority of systems with the lower tokosomom. Track width - European 1,435 mm, which allows us to transport wagons, using the railway network of the country.

Shanghai Metro

Metro equipped for the disabled movement. On the line 4 separated from the platform pathways transparent wall with sliding door, they also planned to equip other lines previously exposed.

Shanghai Metro

on the LCD monitor inside the train cars going under the ground, showing advertising and name of the next station. The trains are also playing a record with the name of the next station in the Chinese and English languages, and information about the sights and shops next to the next station - only in Chinese.

Shanghai Metro

At the stations, hot and humid, but the air conditioning is available in the trains themselves.

Shanghai Metro

Underpass. Here we must bear in mind that everything was done very poorly. Tile totters and falls off, all small leaks.

Shanghai Metro

Exit to the city.

Shanghai Metro

When you exit the homeless often sleep. Judging by the number, nobody rides.

Shanghai Metro