男友太凶猛1v1高h,大地资源在线资源免费观看 ,人妻少妇精品视频二区,极度sm残忍bdsm变态

Global EditionASIA 中文雙語Fran?ais
China
Home / China / Latest

Subway system stretches into the future

By Zhou Wenting in Shanghai | China Daily | Updated: 2019-08-26 09:19
Share
Share - WeChat
A view of Shanghai metro on Jan 3, 2019. [Photo/IC]

Three decades ago Shanghai had no metro network, but today it boasts the world's longest subway systems, which stretches more than 705 kilometers with 415 stations.

Along the way it has had to overcome construction and engineering problems associated with soft soil conditions and land subsidence.

"With high construction standards and pioneering methods, the metro development in the municipality over the past 26 years has gone through a process that took almost a century in some developed countries," said Feng Hao, an information officer with Shanghai Shentong Metro Group.

He said the scale and speed of the construction were acclaimed as "a world-level miracle" by the Community of Metros, an international organization of metro builders and operators.

The development of the metro system is indicative of the advances Shanghai has made in its entire transportation system. City authorities began to think about a subway system in the 1950s, but some foreign experts said soil testing showed the underground water level was too high and the soil texture too soft. They said excavating underground tunnels for a rail system would be like "digging holes in tofu".

But engineers and builders developed core techniques to deal with the soft soil and introduced construction standards replicated in many other parts of China.

The metro system today boasts a number of firsts for the country. The metro line spans two provincial-level regions, provides voice navigation for the blind and stays open longer than any other system, including 20 hours on weekends and holidays.

More than 10 million passengers travel on the Shanghai metro an average weekday, accounting for two-thirds of the capacity of the city's public transportation, official statistics show.

Wu Jizhen, 70, was born and raised in Qingpu district on the municipality's western outskirts and has witnessed the changes in Shanghai's public transportation system.

She clearly remembers the days before the subway was built when it would take six hours traveling on four bus routes to visit a relative in Baoshan district in the north.

She doesn't have to walk far from a bus station to a metro station. "The interval for bus and metro schedules has been significantly improved as well," she said. "In the 1980s, there were only four buses a day on a route that I relied on. I had to wait for at least one and a half hours if I missed one."

Since 2017, six metro routes that connect the city's two airports and run through commercial districts have extended operating hours until after midnight on weekends and major holidays.

Zhi Yuan contributed to this story.

Top
BACK TO THE TOP
English
Copyright 1995 - . All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to China Daily Information Co (CDIC). Without written authorization from CDIC, such content shall not be republished or used in any form. Note: Browsers with 1024*768 or higher resolution are suggested for this site.
License for publishing multimedia online 0108263

Registration Number: 130349
FOLLOW US
 
主站蜘蛛池模板: 平阳县| 梁山县| 沙洋县| 常州市| 泸州市| 绵竹市| 深圳市| 南溪县| 文山县| 神木县| 惠来县| 琼海市| 久治县| 商河县| 华容县| 陇南市| 陆良县| 望谟县| 思南县| 德化县| 周宁县| 巴林右旗| 大足县| 威远县| 罗田县| 嵊州市| 乌海市| 酒泉市| 安阳县| 长兴县| 隆昌县| 和顺县| 凤城市| 贺兰县| 忻城县| 滦南县| 长汀县| 抚宁县| 高密市| 双江| 新安县|