Shanghai Metro Hours to Extend on Weekends

By Catherine Lee

Great news for late night travellers – closing times of major Metro lines will be extended by an hour on Fridays, Saturdays and the night before public holidays this year. Yay!

This means extending hours and adding trains to some of the most congested lines during the 40-day rush period before Spring Festival which is happening now.

Lines 1, 2 and 8 had already lengthened operating hours by 30 minutes as of December.

From April 1, Lines 1, 2, 7, 8, 9 and 10 will be extending night services.

Effective July 1, another six lines (Lines 3, 4, 6, 11, 12 and 13) will also follow the planned extension by 60 minutes on Fridays, Saturdays and the night before holidays.

In other news, the plans to shorten interval times between services of Lines 1, 4, 9, 10, 11 and 13, in order to minimize delays. This is hoped to be achieved by the end of this year.

One of Shanghai's busiest routes, Line 1, which currently requires a transfer at Shanghai Railway Station, will have plans to run from Xinzhuang all the way through to Fujin Lu by the end of the year.

By the end of June, Line 9 will have four more services added to it to cut its train's interval times from 3 minutes to 2.5 minutes. Line 11 will also have four more services added for interval times as quick as 2 minutes to reduce wait times during peak hours.

Metro lines that run through Shanghai's downtown will have trains swinging by every three minutes during rush hours by 2018.

With the cosmopolitan's goal of connecting nine more lines together by 2020, the network will add up to 850 kilometers, compared to roughly 600 kilometers it has now.

[Image via Shanghai Daily]

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