Hangzhou’s subway 5-year plan
Finally, the Chinese government permitted the subway plan of Hangzhou, my hometown.
That means Hangzhou will be the 4th city which has subway after Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou.
Hehe, found myself have fallen into the Cretaceous. After I wrote the sentence above, I searched in Google and Baidu, then discover that there’s always six cities have subway. Beside of the three mentioned above, Tianjing, Guangzhou, Nanjing and Shenzhen are the members of subway club, too.
And something is interesting: I’m not the only one who think only 3 or 4 cities have subway. So many people have made the same mistake:) From the other side, it proved we always focus just the small point in front of out eyes. Maybe I should look at the mountains faraway and the sky to find the beautiful life. ( A old but great song by “Ace of base”, I love.)
OK, back to the subway. In the next 5 years, Hangzhou will complete the #1 and #2 subway-line (#1 will cost 15 billion and be about 50km). And the next #3-#8 will follow then. The expert say it can afford 20% of Hangzhou’s traffic.
I’ve been to Shanghai and Beijing and found subways are both playing great part in the two cities. Yes the both cities are crowd now, but maybe they will be completely jammed without subway. Shanghai’s subway is comparatively more modern to Beijing’s. It’s clear inside and you can always see LCDs playing all kinds of beautiful ADs.
Beijing’s subway has been built for a long time. So in some lines (#1 and #2) you even can not find air-conditions in it but many many large electric fans. It really surprised me when I entered it for the first time.
The other change which the subway plan will bring to me is living fashion. I have a house property where I need to take about 90 minutes to arrive(It’s too long for me). And it’s said the subway #1 will set a station beside it. As a result maybe only 20-30 minutes:)
