City Approves Sanlitun Subway Station on Line 17

Patrick Li | Jul 21, 2015 12:50 pm | 3 comments | 13115 reads

According to Beijing News, authorities released their final designs for Line 17 on Monday. The new line will be another major track cutting across the city north-south, connecting Tiantongyuan, Wangjing, and Guangqumen residential areas with central commercial and bar areas of Sanlitun, Gongti, and Xindong Lu. Line 17 will begin construction by the end of this year and should be operational by 2018 or 2019.

Throughout the report there is one station that stands out: Beijing Worker's Stadium. We have known for a long time that Tuanjiehu and Dongsishitiao stations are situated too far from the stadium to be truly useful and opening of this new station is bound to reduce their congestion. Line 3 will also intersect the Gongti-Sanlitun station with construction of the station also beginning by the end of this year.

The new line will stretch 50 kilometers and incude 20 stations. A substantial portion of the line will run parallel to Line 10, which lies to the east, but we have good reason to believe that Line 17 will be much more popular than Line 10, especially among partiers, as it lies much closer to most of our city's bars and nightlife joints.

Though exact routes haven’t been released to the public yet, we speculate that the new line to go through the major north-south artery which links Xindong Lu, Gonti Donglu, and Yonganli, connecting many of Beijing's most popular bars, shopping malls, restaurants, and nightlife venues, including Great Leap Brewing #12 Brewpub, Heaven Supermarket, Jing-A Taproom, Homeplate Bar-B-Que, Parkview Green, The Place, and Maggie’s. Ten of the 20 stations on Line 17 will be transfer stations, yielding the highest percentage of transfer stations among all Beijing subway lines.

The original plan contained 21 stations, but Yonganli North station, which would likely have been located at the crossroad of Parkview Green and The Place, disappears from the final plan, probably due to technical practicality as the station would have been too close to both Dongdaqiao and Yonganli Stations.

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Re: City Approves Sanlitun Subway Station on Line 17
Posted Sep 27, 2015 4:31pm by admin

Regarding that Line 7 Shuangjing station, they still are not saying when it will open

The latest news I've heard about it (from July) is that the reason is that the Shuangjing station at Line 10 has way too high a traffic volume, and if Line 7 was connected to it, the station would become overwhelmed.

Presumably when the above-described Line 17 opens to the west of Line 10, and Line 14 extends down to Jiulongshan to the east, passenger volume on Line 10 might decrease to the point where the two stations will be able to be connected without overwhelming Shuangjing ... but I am not counting on it.

 

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Re: City Approves Sanlitun Subway Station on Line 17
Posted Jul 26, 2015 10:18am by mapleleafman

Yeah whats up with the unopened station at Shuangjing for Line 7?

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Re: City Approves Sanlitun Subway Station on Line 17
Posted Jul 21, 2015 2:20pm by Ninagaogao

that is good