| Too bad the price for the metro will go up. I don't think it will help even a bit to decrease the traffic. Most people using the metro rely on it to get to their work, if they wouldn't use the metro they would take much longer to arrive at their work so they just stand the awfully busy metro.
It would be better if there would be actual structural improvements for the metro network, like decreasing the interval on line 1 and 2. Currently the interval is around 3 to 4 minutes on line 1, which is much to high. If they would decrease this to around 1 minute the traffic flow would be much better. It seems quite strange that they have to close the Dong Fang Metro Station for a full year just to add on more line. In the future there will be another line added at this station (making it the biggest in the shanghai network), will they close it for another year then? I don't see them closing Shanghai Railway Station for example to add the new line. For Dong Fang it might be different as they will add a line underground there, but a full year seems extremely long to me. At most a couple of months should be enough. |
Price Increase of Shanghai Metro