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Busy Metro station gets a makeover
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PEOPLE’S Square Metro Station is about to become more user-friendly.
From Saturday, people will find it more convenient and quicker at the city’s biggest transferring Metro Station as a result of more escalators and signs being installed.
Shendu Highway station on Line 8 and Zhangjiang Hi-tech Park station on Line 2 will also reopen — from today in both cases. (Zhangjiang Hi-tech Park station was originally scheduled to reopen from Saturday.)
Metro Lines 1 and 8 at People’s Square had suspended operations from January 17 because of the renovation project, during which trains on the lines did not stop at the station. Line 2, which shares the station, was not affected by the revamp.
Eight escalators have been added to the station — four to the hall of Line 1 and four to that of Line 8. Some staircases have been removed and some turnstiles changed.
“The adjustments are set up to increase evacuation efficiency of the station,” Huang Yufei, assistant director of the Metro station told Shanghai Daily. “It will also help to avoid conflicting flow of traffic on staircases as the escalators have a clearer guidance on direction.”
An elevator has also been set up in the hall in Metro Line 1 for the first time.
“Line 1 is the oldest line of the city,” Huang said. “Before, disabled passengers or people carrying large luggage would have to contact the station staffers and walk to a different place to use an elevator. With the new elevator installed in the hall, passengers can easily use the elevator themselves.”
Shendu Highway Station also added two escalators and a set of L-shaped staircases, whose evacuation capacity will be raised by 43 percent following the renovation.
Shuttle bus services to ferry passengers from Shengdu Highway and Zhangjiang Hi-tech Park stations to nearby Metro stations will stop from today as the Metro service resumes.
The renovations are expected to increase capacity of the three stations to deal with increasing traffic. The timing for the renovation work was chosen around the Spring Festival holidays to minimize the impact on commuters.
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