WORK on the city’s Metro Line 2 started Monday, Chinese-language newspapers said yesterday.
The line, which is scheduled to open in 2011, starts at Shekou passenger ferry terminal in Nanshan District and ends at Xinxiu neighborhood in Luohu District. It has 17 stations covering 20.65 kilometers, the Daily Sunshine said yesterday.
In a separate development, a construction site along Line 2 in Shekou caught fire Monday morning. No casualties were reported in the fire, which burnt down more than 30 dormitories for workers on the project. The cause of the fire was still being investigated, the Southern Metropolis Daily said.
Five underground rail projects comprising two new Metro lines and three under-construction Metro lines are being built in the city. At least 60 construction sites for the Metro project alone inside the special economic zone are under way.
The 23-kilometer Metro Line 1 extension, which runs from Window of the World to the airport, is now under construction and is expected to be in service at the end of the year.
The second phase of Metro Line 4, which will link the Children’s Palace in Futian with downtown Longhua in Bao’an District will be ready next year.
Work on Line 3, which will connect Hongling Road Central with Longxing Street in Longgang, started late last year. Work on Metro Line 5 will start soon. Line 5 could stop at 29 stations as it meanders from Nanshan through parts of Bao’an and Longgang before ending at Shenzhen Grand Theater in Luohu.
Metro Line 1, which runs from Luohu to Window of the World, opened at the end of 2004. (Wei Jie)