Metro Line 13 (Phase I) To Enter Service by 2012
Waiting for an extended Metro Line 13? Recent reports on CCTV-9 tell of a late 2012 opening for Phase I of Line 13, which connects to the 2010 stretch ready for Expo 2010.
Phase I of Line 13 starts from Jinyun Road in Jiading, which will be a future interchange with Line 17 in itself, and ends at the Changqing Road Lines 7 / 13 interchange. From the maps we have access to, it’s going to be one interchange-heavy line. Here’s what we’ve seen so far (note: these details are not final and may change at any time):
- Jinyun Road station (interchange with Line 17)
- South Qilianshan Road station (interchange with Line 16)
- Daduhe Road station (interchange with Line 15)
- Jinshajiang Road station (interchange with Lines 3 and 4)
- Longde Road station (interchange with Line 11)
- Wuning Road station (interchange with Line 14)
- Changshou Road station (interchange with Line 7)
- Hanzhong Road station (interchange with Lines 1 and 12)
- West Nanjing Road station (interchange with Lines 2 and 12)
- Xintiandi station (interchange with Line 10)
- Changqing Road station (interchange with Line 7)
Madang Road, a Lines 9 / 13 interchange, will already be put into use in part by late 2009, and the Line 13 bit will follow in early 2010. Earlier plans saw the Lines 7 / 13 interchange at Changqing Road entering service during the Expo, but this seems to be less and less the case now.
Want more of Line 13? This line will head even further east into Pudong with Phase II. It’ll link with Line 8 at Chengshan Road, Line 6 at Dongming Road, Line 18 at Lianxi Road and Line 21 at Middle Huaxia Road before coming to a stop at Zhangjiang Road, near the Chuanyang RIver. As is the case with Phase I, all station names, interchange plans and the ilk are tentative. Please do not rush out and buy your house at — say — Zhangjiang Road in Pudong just because you saw this article!