for GZ rail fans:
Guangzhou to build 9 subways
30 March 2006
Xinhua's China Economic Information Service
GUANGZHOU, March 30 (CEIS) Guangzhou, the capital city of Chinas
southern Guangdong Province, plans to build nine subways with a
total length of 255 km in the countrys 11th Five-Year Program
period (2006-2010).
The city now has its total subway length of 59.2 km.
With the nine new subways built by 2010, subways will take over
half of Guangzhous public passenger transport capacity, said Lu
Guanglin, general manager of the Guangzhou Subway Corp.
According to Lu, Guangzhou will put in no less than 5 billion yuan
every year in subway construction.
this news report came 3 months after Lines 3 and 4 have opened on
26th Dec 2005. Line 3 by Siemens, Line 4 by Kawasaki Heavy
Ind.
platform screen doors are supplied by Westinghouse PSD, based in
UK. they also supply the PSD's for our old SMRT and new NEL train
networks here in Singapore.
http://www.gzmtr.com/
