Line 7: Are You Ready?
Some bits of info about Line 7 as it’s just about ready…
• Line 7 will start operations in early December 2009 and will first cover the part between Shanghai University and Huamu Road. An earlier plan, which featured local trains on a more frequent basis running a shorter distance, seems to have been shelved.
• Interchanges will be at Zhenping Road (Lines 3 and 4), Jing’an Temple (Line 2), Changshu Road (Line 1), Dong’an Road (Line 4), Yaohua Road (Line 8), West Gaoke Road (Line 6) and Longyang Road (Line 2; Maglev transfer). The interchange with Line 9 at Zhaojiabang Road goes into operations later this year. In 2010, when Line 10 opens, riders must first interchange to Line 1 at Changshu Road before flipping over to Line 10 at South Shanxi Road.
• Nearly all stations feature a through concourse and island platforms. The concourse at Huamu Road, the Pudong terminus, looks like a Taipei MRT station with a huge cutting into the platform (it’s very different from the cutting at Caobao Road on Line 1) and looks extremely spacious.
Stay tuned to Shanghai A to B and the Civitology sites for a look at the individual interchanges!