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New Metro line sees light at end of tunnels

CONSTRUCTION of Huaihai Road M. Metro station, a key stop on the second phase of Line 13, reached a major milestone yesterday with the completion of tunneling work.

Working at up to 71 meters below ground, four tunnel-boring machines took more than five months to create the core infrastructure for the new station, the main body of which is 33m underground, the subway operator said yesterday.

Once completed, Line 13 will stretch more than 33 kilometers from Jiading District to the Pudong New Area and feature 31 stations.

With a total cost of 19.8 billion yuan (US$3.2 billion), the project is being developed in three parts. Phase one, from Jinyun Road to Jinshajiang Road, opened at the end of 2012, while phase two, from Jinshajiang Road to Nanjing Road W., will be completed next year.

Construction will begin on the third phase at the end of the year and should be completed by the end of 2017.

Once fully operational, Line 13 will link with all other lines on the network, with the exception of Line 5.

The biggest difficulty faced during the construction of the line is the huge depths at which the contractors have to work, the operator said.

The line travels under both the Yan’an and North-South elevated roads, as well as Metro Line 1, it said.




 

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