China to build the world's largest underground system

[beijingwalker]

China to build the world's largest underground system

China to build the world's largest underground system

After rolling out almost 50,000 miles of expressways and 6,000 miles of high-speed rail lines, China is now turning its attention underground with the most extensive metro project the world has ever seen.

By Malcolm Moore, in Shanghai

1:36PM GMT 03 Nov 2011

More than 1 trillion yuan (£100 billion) will be spent on building underground networks in 28 cities, according to Gao Yucai, the head of the urban mass transit committee at China’s Communications and Transport association.

Under the current projections, China will build the equivalent of 250 Circle lines by the end of the decade.

Twelve Chinese cities already have metro systems up and running - and Shanghai went from a standing start to having a bigger network than the London Underground in just 15 years.

 

[beijingwalker]

Shanghai built its firt subway in 1995,(Beijing 1965),but now it has the biggest subway system in the world.that's crazy.

 

[JohnyD]

The way chinese system operates, i dont see any issue in achieving this milestone..underground system though is expensive and complex to develop, it is useful in densely populated cities where there is no space available to build a new public transport system with high capacity, high speed and a high degree of safety...Also, an added advantage of enviroment protection.

Hope, other developing countries to follow the suit in near future...

 

[beijingwalker]

advanced subway system is especially important for big population countries and cities.

 

[Shardul.....the lion]

I have always admired chinese engineering and project management skills.
Long live India China friendship!!!!!!

 

[ashokdeiva]

Good, actually great news. Congratz China.
I hope that the project is well concevied with all safty parameters taken ito account.
Congratz to the Chinese brothers and sisters

 

[beijingwalker]

Beijing aiming for world's longest subway system

from Radio Australia

Beijing is set to overtake London as the city with the longest subway system in the world, with China's capital planning to stretch its subway rail to more than 500 kilometres by 2012.

Beijing aiming for world's longest subway system - SkyscraperCity

 

[beijingwalker]

China's subway development is like crazy

 

[beijingwalker]

Good luck!

haha,thank you ,feel sorry for you though

Chinese Trains, Indian Trains

We travelled from Beijing to Shanghai by the high-speed train days after it was introduced. A week later, on our return journey from a holiday in the land of dragons, we took a train from Ernakulam town in India's southern Kerala state to Coimbatore, across the border in Tamil Nadu. Both the journeys were completed in under five hours. Distance between Beijing and Shanghai: 1318 km; between Ernakulam and Coimbatore: 178 km.
The coaches of the sleek-nosed, gleaming, white Chinese train could match the cabin of a commercial airplane, constantly cleaned by uniformed women attendants on the lookout for any litter.
“Mom, the train is dirty,” said a little girl with a distinct American twang, holding her nose tight as we boarded the Indian train. Her NRI (non-resident Indian) mother and grandfather shushed the little one, lest some patriotic Indian consider her observation blasphemous.
“She is only telling the truth,” said my wife as the girl looked at the elders triumphantly. A ticket examiner said apologetically,” We can’t do anything as the cleaning has been handed over to a private party.”
The two trains are symbolic of the wide gap in the developmental graphs of the world’s two fastest growing economies and the way they are going about it, as your graph has projected.
Like the high-speed train that was introduced on June 30, eve of the 90th birthday of the Communist Party of China, hurtles from the clean Beijing South railway station to the snazzy Shanghai, the country’s financial hub at over 300 kmph, the country seems to be dizzyingly zooming towards its single-hearted pursuit of super power status.
“Why is that we are unable to do what the Chinese are doing?” my wife constantly asked as we took in the capital city with its impressive six-lane highways and eyes-pleasing landscaping, the Forbidden City and other tourist spots, kept spectacularly clean, despite the thousands who visit the sites every day.
I said China had a policy that controlled migration of rural people to the urban centres.
“What’s the population of Beijing,” she asked.
About 20 million, I said.
“That’s more than Delhi’s population. Still look at the difference,” my wife said pointedly.
If Beijing was a revelation, spanking Shanghai was a confirmation that we have decades to catch up with our neighbour.
No one was seen urinating or defecating on the roadsides or along the railway tracks, a ubiquitous part of Indian scenery. The reason was not difficult to find. The Chinese have built lavatories across these cities, helping the people maintain their personal dignity. And these public conveniences are kept spotlessly clean, mostly. Many of these were set up ahead of the Beijing Olympics.
The Chinese trains, however, have not been without their share of glitches. Hours after we arrived in Shanghai, heavy rains and lightning brought the entire Bullet train system on the sector to a halt. Local news reports said the passengers were stuck in the fully-sealed trains for over two hours and there was panic onboard.
A collision between two high-speed trains on July 23 near the city of Wenzhou that left over 35 people dead underlines the need for improving safety measures. The speed of the Beijing-Shanghai train, which was initially planned to run at 350 kmph, was reduced to 300 kmph and later to 250 kmph due to these concerns.
“We have accidents almost daily even when our trains run at bullock-cart speed,” my wife underlined the irony.
You just can’t win some arguments.

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Chinese high speed railway development and railway stations.

Beijing south railway station and China's railway development - SkyscraperCity

 

[Götterdämmerung]

Good luck!

Some people are just sad. So much jealousy and hate.

List of Indian rail incidents - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Götterdämmerung]

stick to topic.. its not about India...

So, one train accident and one metro accident this year puts the whole Chinese rail development into question. The hundreds of accidents in your country makes India incredible?

 

[yacht07]

stick to topic.. its not about India... and don't be shy to ask us americans for help...

You may ask Bangladesh's help as well if you like. They have a marvelous and functioning railway system.

I can not post a link now, I guess I need more points or whatever... Just google "bangladesh train"

 

[beijingwalker]

20 years ago India used to be miles ahead of China in terms of railway system due to the well established British colonial industry.and look at it now....

 

[JayAtl]

You may ask Bangladesh's help as well if you like. They have a marvelous and functioning railway system.

I can not post a link now, I guess I need more points or whatever... Just google "bangladesh train"

not about India- stay on topic. is there an international forum language that helps you guys undersatnd it pssst- India is exporting its trains to countries that China previously sold cheap, failed trains to.

 

[Götterdämmerung]

... and don't be shy to ask us americans for help...

You must be joking, we in Germany have rail technologies the US can only dream of. Delusional American you are.