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Wait until 2018, then wait less on subway
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IT was nothing but good news for Shanghai commuters yesterday when the boss of the city’s Metro operator announced that the maximum waiting time for trains during rush hour periods will be reduced to three minutes ... in 2018 ... on selected lines.
Yu Guangyao, president of Shanghai Shentong Metro Group, said that the reduced intervals will be introduced in about two years’ time, in a bid to relieve the pressing and very current problem of commuter log jams.
“We will buy more trains, run them more frequently to shorten the intervals,” Yu, who is also a local lawmaker, told Shanghai Daily on the sidelines of the ongoing annual session of the Shanghai People’s Congress.
He didn’t say why the company needed two years to implement the changes.
Currently, the average interval between trains at downtown Metro stations is about five minutes.
The shorter intervals — coming in 2018 — will apply only to Lines 1, 2 and 8, and only at selected times of the day, Yu said.
The official also told reporters yesterday that he had spoken to the city’s transport authorities about providing more bus services close to Metro stations to enable commuters to complete the “last kilometer” of their journeys swiftly and easily.
He didn’t say if he had made any progress on the issue or when such a “total transport” system might come into play.
Meanwhile, another of the city’s lawmakers — Wang Yuxiang — suggested yesterday that the subway operator consider introducing standing-only carriages during busy periods as a way to boost capacity.
“The company could run tests on some busy lines and then roll the idea out to the entire network,” she said.
Another lawmaker — Gu Qianyan — suggested upgrading the security equipment currently in use at Metro stations.
He claimed that such a move would “increase the efficiency of security checks during rush hour periods,” though provided no other pertinent details.
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