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Shanghai Metro Line 8 extended

Today Shanghai’s Metro Line 8 opened its second phase. The previous southern terminus was Yaohua Road in Pudong. The new route travels 14.2km into Pudong to the Aerospace Museum.

The full list of new stations, from North to South is

The station at Jiyang Road will be a future three-line interchange between Line 6, Line 8 and Line 11, but is not open yet.

Here’s a view from Google Earth looking southwards down the new line (click to enlarge)

line-8-looking-southwards

Our interactive Shanghai metro map and routeplanner have been updated with the new extension. Please report any issues you find! Price information for the new line will be available soon.

UPDATE Fixed two station names

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This entry was posted on Sunday, July 5th, 2009 at 5:52 pm and is filed under newlines, shanghai. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

6 Responses to “Shanghai Metro Line 8 extended”

  1. David Feng Says:
    July 5th, 2009 at 6:39 pm

    A little more about Phase II of Line 8:

    • Through trains from Shiguang Road to the Aerospace Museum run about once every 15 minutes. That’s every third train. Minimum gaps are about 11 minutes during the evening rush hour.

    • Most trains end at Yangsi. When Jiyang Road opens up later in the year, they’ll continue through to Jiyang Road.

    • Jiyang Road opens late 2009 and will be a three-line interchange. The Line 8 platform sits above a cross-platform Lines 6/11 combo platform. The whole station is underground.

    • Minor corrections to Line 8 names: “Lianhang Road” and “Aerospace Museum”. ;-)

  2. matt Says:
    July 5th, 2009 at 7:14 pm

    Thanks David! I’m off to ride the line now! Will do the name corrections when I get back :)

  3. matt Says:
    July 5th, 2009 at 9:58 pm

    Fixed the station names here and on the map/pedia

  4. Blog | ExploreMetro | China's best metro and subway maps Says:
    July 12th, 2009 at 10:11 am

    [...] updated the printable PDF versions of our Shanghai metro map. The new English version includes the new line 8 stations and there’s a new Chinese version. If you have any comments or suggestions for the PDF [...]

  5. Blog | ExploreMetro | China's best metro and subway maps Says:
    July 12th, 2009 at 11:15 pm

    [...] Shanghai: Added prices for the routeplanner for new Line 8 stations [...]

  6. Random Person Says:
    October 24th, 2010 at 11:16 am

    Another minor correction to a name of a Line 8 station: “Lingzhao Xincun” instead of “Linzhao Xincun”.