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Shades put up for queuing commuters
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Metro Line 16 has installed sun shades outside Heshahangcheng Station and will allow more passengers to wait indoors after commuters complained that they had to queue up for more than half an hour in scorching heat before entering stations.
The waiting time at Heshahangcheng and Zhoupudong stations on Line 16 can be as much as 40 to 50 minutes during morning rush hours because of crowd control. The queue can be almost 2 kilometers long.
“The station is two blocks away,” a netizen by the name “Liucun Linda” said on her Weibo with a picture of the long queue. “I might have to queue from the third block tomorrow.”
The long queues have become unbearable as the mercury crossed 30 degree Celsius since Monday. “I feel I’m going to have sunstroke queuing on the road,” a netizen “Papa_Freya” said.
There have been complaints that Line 16 is incapable of meeting the rising demand as the number of commuters swell.
The operator has taken several measures, including cutting down intervals and reconstructing seats to increase the capacity, but it hasn’t helped much.
Designed essentially as a sightseeing line, the operators did not expect so many commuters at first and pressed three-cabin trains into service. It intends to go for 6-carriage trains by the year-end.
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