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Take a look at these suckers: these are going to be the newest subway trains to grace Shanghai's rails. Set to show up on the 7 line (whenever that opens), it's elegant curves, orange highlights and sexy golden dragon decor will be shuffling people to and fro from the Expo grounds.

Vienna Café cooks up with a Truffaut movie this coming Thursday! One of film history´s most important directors didn't only write and direct Les 400 coups, Jules et Jim, Baisers volés...but also Le Dernier métro (The last metro), which is the movie of choice for this week.

This morning, the No.2 line stopped working right in the middle of rush hour. According to one tipster, there were half hour to 40 minute long delays in total trip time with the metro stopping for five to 10 minutes at every stop.

The second phase of Line 9 is set to open before the end of this year, meaning that by January 2010, we'll all be able to hop on a subway at Grand Gateway in Xujiahui and get off at the Pearl Tower in Lujiazui like it ain't no thing! The 14km stretch of track, which will also traverse through Luwan, Huangpu and further out into Pudong, will be completed on July 20. Trains will begin testing for two months after that. Other lines on track for opening before the end of the year include Line 6 and the first phase of Line 11. Meanwhile, on Wednesday, the second phase of Metro Line 8 began operation, extending the service from its current terminal at the Chengshan Road Station in Pudong to Minhang's Shanghai Airspace Science Park Station. Source: Shanghai Daily

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Yup, “Shanghai Metro Pole Dancing” is as avant-garde of a public art form as it gets in Shanghai, and faithful subway riders - to their dismay, we hear - have been getting more than they’re paying for.

Minhang commuters and residents have been enjoying free bike rides for the last two weeks. No its not a rash of bike stealers - in fact, it's actually a new government sponsored program partially intended to curb theft.

File this under the2010 World Expo actually making our lives marginally more convenient, huzzah!

Canada is best known for Mounted Police (Mounties), but it seems that China is giving Canada a bit of competition for toothy-grinning, helpful mounties.

Shanghai Metro passengers can now access free transport and entertainment info at major Metro stations, now that the Shanghai Metro Guide has launched. The pilot scheme allows users to send a station code to a free number: 10658028. A website address is sent back and tells you close by bus lines, maps, shopping centers and restaurants. Sounds like you would need a slightly more advanced phone to use this service, but it should be a super useful addition to the city come World Expo time. Source: Shanghai Daily

Congratulations to Matt Mayer who yesterday became (we believe) the first person to visit every station on the Shanghai Metro system in one day.

That's what Matt Mayer, the guy behind the ExploreShanghai metro map is trying to do right now. He laid out his plan, and the rules, here, a blog post that finished with: "147 stations, eight lines, one manic Monday. Wish me luck!" You can follow Matt's progress live on Twitter. His last message: "50 shanghai metro stations completed in 3h 7m 33s. Station 50 is west nanjing road. Shame i dont have time to visit marks and spencers :)" You can get in touch with Matt throughout the day. We're sure he'd love to here from you — it's going to be a long, boring Monday.

Adam Schokora wonders if face masks have evolved to become fashion statements in the capital with 3RMB masks now sold at just about any subway stop there. Of course, as everyone in Shanghai knows, nobody up there gives a hoot about fashion. We're guessing this has more to do with the recent bird flu scare there.

According to the folks at UnitedMetro, this is what we can look forward to in 11 years--something even more complicated than New York's underground. Oh well, at least it'll save us the trouble of having to figure out the buses, right?

2012 could be your special year. Construction began yesterday on metro Line 12, which will connect Minhang district with northern Pudong, passing through Xuhui, Luwan, Jing'an, Zhabei, Hongkou and Yangpu along the way. Most eye-popping line: "Nineteen stations on Line 12 will connect with 16 other Metro lines." Line 19 (still in planning stage) being one of them. It doesn't seem too long ago that there were only two metro lines and there would be a mad dash for open seats at Shanghai Railway Station, because that is where Line 1 began. It doesn't seem too long ago, because it wasn't. By 2012, Shanghai is supposed to have 13 metro lines covering 500 kilometers. [Shanghai Daily]

The Explore blog notes that a shuttle bus transfer is no longer required when traveling from Yishan Lu (Lines 3/4) to Guilin Lu (Line 9), or vice-versa. The best Shanghai metro map around has been updated to reflect this change. Have fun on Line 9!

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A living mummy was spotted on the Shanghai subway a few days ago — the latest in a rash of weirdos to hit the metro. Earlier this year, someone spotted Superman on the subway, but apparently there was also a Mr Giraffe and a Girl in Pink. Micah Sittig points us to a photoshopped picture of the four weird characters here.

The West Nanjing Road Metro station is earmarked to be the interchange for lines 12 and 13 by 2012, reports xinmin.cn and Shanghai Daily:

"All stalls and businesses inside Metro stations will be shut for a month from today, including news stands, because of public security concerns for the Olympic Games. Shentong Metro Group, owner and operator of Shanghai's Metro, said it had decided to close them because of local government requirements to step up public security at stations. The suspension of business will affect 1,080 stores as well as up to 12,000 square meters of commercial areas inside Metro stations, Shentong officials said yesterday. Even food vending machines will be closed. Business owners, however, will not get compensation from the company to cover their losses, Shentong confirmed." Ouch. [Shanghai Daily]

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Following on from the story of a straight couple's clinch on the metro in January, the latest video doing the Chinese internet rounds is an all-girl couple getting frisky on line 2.

That's right, lots of road closures, stronger than average nationalistic fervour, and even more tat being sold on the streets than normal can only mean one thing: the moment we've all been waiting for is here! The international leg of the relay might have been less than harmonious, and it might be three days later than originally expected (following an understandable postponement for this week's official mourning period), but tomorrow [Friday] will see the Olympic torch hit the streets of Shanghai.

Everyone's favourite superhero probably read on this blog that Shanghai's buses aren't too safe lately, so he decided to take the subway instead. More pics after the jump [h/t to ChinaTravel.net]

By Benjamin Cohen

Last night's Shanghai Evening Post contained several meaty public transportation related articles covering the following topics:

A summary of some of the Shanghai public-transportation-related stories making the news lately:
• The longest ocean-crossing bridge in the world is set to open near Shanghai on May 1. According to the Shanghai Daily, "the Hangzhou Bay Bridge, which starts in southern Shanghai and ends in Ningbo, will shorten the trip between the two cities by more than 120 kilometers". Construction on the bridge began in 2003.
• Nanjing will soon join Beijing in banning foldable bicycles from their subway system, leaving Shanghai and Guangzhou as the two major subway systems that don't explicitly forbid them.
• The 10 year-old Xujiahui subway station underground shopping street was closed for renovations on March 31st, and will reopen by the end of the year with a new set of tenants and new entertainment options. Exits 1-7 will be closed during renovations. Xujiahui is the site of the future Line 1/9/11 interchange.

A summary of some of the Shanghai public-transportation-related stories making the news lately:
• An intelligent, wireless signaling and control system already successfully implemented on Lines 6, 8 and 9 will be used for all new lines built between now and the World Expo in 2010, theoretically cutting the lowest time between trains to 90 seconds.
• According to news reports, the new 3G cellphone network being rolled out in Shanghai has complete coverage on all metro lines and at the city's airports.
• The airport authority and police have printed up brochures explaining in Chinese and English what is allowed and not allowed to be brought onto airplanes under the new rules limiting gels and liquids in unchecked baggage.

Two recent stories from the Shanghai subway system might be worth your notice:
• A score of news reports are heralding new measures to alleviate passenger load on Line 2 trains on the Pudong side, where Zhangjiang High-Tech Park station has become one of the metro system's highest trafficked stations due to what the Xinmin Evening Post calls “白领客流”, the "white-collar passenger flow". More trains are being added to both the morning and afternoon rush hours, and morning hours at Zhangjiang are being extended to match Zhongshan Park's early hours with a first train at 5:55 in the morning. The changes are already reflected on the Shanghai Metro company's website. Also, Zhangjiang Station has begun to use both platforms to send passengers off to Puxi and now has the option of restricting passenger access to the station during overly crowded periods.
• Just like last year's Trojan ads, a new but more risqué Durex ad featuring a woman in hot pants and a construction worker that is being shown on subway and office building LCDs has offended passengers and white-collar workers, and is on its way to being banned within the next week for not passing inspection by the State Food and Drug Administration as an ad for a medical product. A popular editorial titled "Sex Ed is not going to fall from the sky" by SHEN Ruoyu opposes the possible ban and argues that the ostrich approach to sex is not appropriate in this day and age.

A last-minute add to the program over at JZ, the Copenhagen-based group called Jazz Kamikaze who have been getting rave reviews will be playing this thursday night at JZ Club. In fact, when Shanghaiist was in Copenhagen last February, we didn't hear the band but got to jam a bit with some of the players in it. They were great, very creative and vibrant musicians. And killer players! So we're expecting a great show from them.