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Beijing approves new subway line
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-02-05 09:35 BEIJING -- The Beijing municipal government has approved the construction of subway Line 15, which is expected to start within the year. The approval was confirmed by a document, dated Tuesday and posted at the website of the Beijing Municipal Committee of Urban Planning (BMCUP). By the approved plan, Line 15 will take a west-east orientation and runs 45.7 kilometers, of which 32 km will be beneath the ground. Line 15 will be between northern Ring Road 4 and 5. It will start from Xiyuan in Haidian District and end at east of Chaobai River in Shunyi District in the eastern suburbs. There will be 21 stops. It will be built in two stages. The east section of the subway between Wangjing West Stop and Hedong Stop in Shunyi will be built first. Line 15 will be finished in 2015.
Other details about Line 15, such as the cost and term, are not available at the moment. Beijing has 200 km of subways in service, most of which are in the northern part of the city. It is determined to vigorously expand track transport in the years to come and is hoping to form a subway network supported by 19 separate lines totaling 561 km by 2015. The city's spending on infrastructure projects alone will top 160 billion yuan (about US$23.53 billion) this year, and Line 15 is included in the spending list, said Liu Yinchun, deputy chief of the municipal committee of development and reform in January. By 2015, a total of 8.8 million daily travels, or one fourth of the total journeys made by residents in downtown areas, will be undertaken by metro, comparing to 3.8 million daily travels at present. The national capital will spend 51.8 billion yuan (about US$7.62 billion) in track transport development this year, according to statistics disclosed by the municipal committee of development and reform. Line 4, a north-to-south subway under construction, is expected to be completed and put into service this year. This will increase the length of Beijing's subway in service to 230 km, and this mileage will go up to 300 km by 2010. |
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