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Shanghai's Airports Are Totally Going to Hook Up

Where: Shanghai, China
March 23, 2009 at 2:26 PM | by JetSetCD | 1 Comment

Didn't make it to Beijing last summer for the Olympics? Well buck up, as rival city Shanghai will spend all of this summer and some of the fall trying to lure you to their World Expo, which is kind of like the Olympics without the athletes.

The 2010 Expo will not only feature a temporary city of international pavilions and amusements for the tourists, but thanks to the "Better City — Better Life" theme, Shanghai itself will benefit by gaining a rail link between its two far-flung airports, Pudong (PVG) and Hongqiao (SHA).

Hopping between either of the airports for a transfer or even just getting into town without giving in to taxi service can be a nightmare. Shanghaiist sums it up sweetly:

Shanghai's Hongqiao and Pudong airports are pretty darned far from each other - what with SHA located a good 13km East from downtown Puxi and PVG set squarely at the very Western tip of Pudong. Getting from one airport to the other usually involves a blend of taxis and buses (sometimes combined with metros and the Maglev) through often traffic jam-ridden highways.

While the proposal to extend the lightning-quick Maglev train line from Pudong into town has been on the backburner for years, it seems that the World Expo has greased the gears enough to at least gain extensions of the good old subway Line 2 all the way out for serving both airports.

The World Expo begins on May 1, 2010 and lasts through October, guaranteeing that the subway extensions will somewhat pay for themselves with the influx of rider traffic over those several months.

Related Stories:
· Shanghai Pudong, Hongqiao uniting by subway before May 2010 [Shanghaiist]
· China and Taiwan Now Joined by Air [Jaunted]
· Airport News Coverage [Jaunted]

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  1. sdvictor

    Jaunted Member

    Rail links

    The maglev terminates close to Century Park in SHanghai, and has a direct link to the 2nd line. Extending the subway is pointless since Shanghai's subways are often delayed, crowded, and poorly ventilated. The maglev extension would make so much more sense. Alas, it's mired in red tape.
    March 23, 2009 at 2:38 PM
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