Line 14 of the
Shanghai Metro
The Shanghai Metro (; Shanghainese: ''Zaon6he5 Di6thiq7'') is a rapid transit system in Shanghai, operating urban and suburban transit services to 14 of its 16 List of township-level divisions of Shanghai, municipal districts and to the neighb ...
is an east-west
metro line opened on 30 December 2021.
The line, consisting of 31 stations, starts from Fengbang town in
Jiading District
Jiading is a suburban district of Shanghai. As of the 2020 Chinese census, it had a population of 1,834,258.
History
Jiading was historically a separate polity from Shanghai until it came under the administration of Shanghai in 1958. In 1993, ...
, and terminate in Jinqiao town in
Pudong New Area
Pudong is a district of Shanghai located east of the Huangpu, the river which flows through central Shanghai. The name ''Pudong'' was originally applied to the Huangpu's east bank, directly across from the west bank or Puxi, the historic cit ...
via , , , and . Its total length is ,
and passengers are able to transfer to 13 existing and planned metro lines. Due to Line 14 cutting across some of the densest areas of Shanghai and being a relief line for
line 2, high ridership is expected for the line. As such the line uses high capacity 8 car A size trains similar to lines
1 and
2. The line uses an
automatic train control
Automatic train control (ATC) is a general class of train protection systems for railways that involves a speed control mechanism in response to external inputs. For example, a system could effect an emergency brake application if the driver do ...
system jointly developed by
Thales
Thales of Miletus ( ; ; ) was an Ancient Greek philosophy, Ancient Greek Pre-Socratic philosophy, pre-Socratic Philosophy, philosopher from Miletus in Ionia, Asia Minor. Thales was one of the Seven Sages of Greece, Seven Sages, founding figure ...
and
Shanghai Electric. Line 14 is fully driverless. The line is colored olive on system maps.
History
Environmental evaluations began on January 2, 2014.
On November 29, 2014, construction began on a section in
Pudong New Area
Pudong is a district of Shanghai located east of the Huangpu, the river which flows through central Shanghai. The name ''Pudong'' was originally applied to the Huangpu's east bank, directly across from the west bank or Puxi, the historic cit ...
.
The line was originally scheduled to open in 2020,
but its opening was delayed to 30 December 2021. Longju Road station has not been opened yet, due to problems with land acquisition process.
Stations
Service routes
Headways
Technology
Rolling Stock
References
2021 establishments in Shanghai
Railway lines opened in 2021
Shanghai Metro lines
Long stubs with short prose
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