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Largest subway coming up in Beijing
Beijing’s subway system is expected to become the world’s largest by 2015, with investment set to touch $10.8 billion by 2010, state media reported. The investment would take the length of rail lines to 561 km by 2015 with a capacity to carry nine million passengers daily, when the rail service would extend from the downtown areas to many key locations on the city fringes, including the Olympic Park and seven suburban satellite cities.
The subway transport would account for 50 per cent of all public transit use within eight years, easing pressure on the roads, Xinhua news agency quoting Beijing Morning Post, said.
Construction on five new subway routes -- Line 6, the second phases of Line 10 and Line 8, and the Yizhuang and Daxing lines began last Saturday. Currently, the first phases of Line 10 and Line 8, as well as a 28-km line linking downtown to Beijing Capital International Airport, are under construction. The capital now has Line 1, Line 2, Line 5, Line 13 and the Batong line in operation with a combined length of 142 kms, carrying about 2.3 million passengers each day. - PTI
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