By Mike Chen When: 2007-2008 Where: Shanghai Metro......

Priceless: Inspired by the work of bloggers in Toronto and London I have created my own anagrammed map of the Shanghai Metro! So if you’ve ever fancied travelling from I’m a hot dashing dinosaur (Shanghai Indoor Stadium) to Thoroughly Hawaiian Satanists (Shanghai South Railway Station) to Drab Penguin (Nanpu Bridge) now is your chance! Check it out: Shanghai Metro anagram map Note for pedants: I used the common English name of the station as posted......

This video entitled “这个女人太要了” ("This girl wants it too much") uploaded to Youtube just five days ago has received over 317,000 views and raised a storm on the Chinese internet. It shows a young Chinese couple hugging and kissing at a subway exit point before finally saying goodbye. Well, it turns out that the clip was taken via the surveillance cameras that you see all around subway stations and the (really annoying) voices in the......

As Saturday, December 29 approaches, Shanghaiist wonders if the addition of three new lines to Shanghai's subway system will do anything to relieve the congestion on the city's metro rail system. Let's ask the Shanghai Daily: Longest wait times expected on Line 6 Crowding expected on Metro 8 Longer hours, bigger crowds on Line 4 Ouch. 'Nuff said. Photo of sardines in a tin by stijn.......

There has been plenty of criticism leveled at the Shanghai subway system, both on Shanghaiist and elsewhere, for things that could be better about it: it closes too early, the interchanges take too long, it's too crowded and too hot/cold, it doesn't reach XXX place, etc. If you fancy yourself on optimistic person, though, you know that one way to change the negatives into positives is to change your complaints into things you're looking forward......

Last week we were coasting on Shanghai Metro Line No. 2 when our attention was suddenly seized by this new Adidas ad displayed on the LCD next to the exit. We were so awestruck by the concept and grandeur of the commercial that we momentarily lost all of our cynicism about big corporations pushing merchandise...and almost missed our stop. Then, as we got on the escalator off the Huangpi Lu exist, we noticed the entire......

By Julien Bertrand: On his first official visit to China, French President Nicolas Sarkozy must have been dizzy, witnessing the signing of contracts worth 20 billion euros in total, comprising of 160 Airbus aircrafts, two EPR nuclear reactors (to be built in Taishan, Guangdong, by 2014) and signal equipment for Shanghai’s future 36-kilometer metro line #10, a long-awaited deal between Alstom and Shanghai Metro that will link New Jiangwan Town to Hongqiao Airport. In an......

The People's Square station signage will soon get a makeover to get up-to-date with Line 8's signs. The new Line 8 platform will open by year's end. Metro Line 13, which has 4 planned stops servicing the future World Expo site, will be branded as a World Expo line. This is part of a move to add culture to the Shanghai subway system. The mother of the young man who was trapped and killed......

If, like us, you're stuck in Shanghai over the National Day holiday (hey, somebody's gotta give everyone else stuck in town something to read and entertain themselves with, right?), we suggest you stay right at home. Because if you haven't been around during any Golden Week, you won't know what a nightmare it is going to be out there. And the Shanghai Metro is already gearing itself up for a record National Day holiday season,......

The free Metro Express commuter paper has a big front-page spread today on the People's Square metro interchange make-over. The headline announces that "People's Square Three Line Interchange Hall To Open By Year's End", which is old news to those who have been following the progress of the new metro Line 8. Instead, the reason for the story being published today is that the Shanghai Rail Transport Construction Headquarters just released a bunch of numbers......

Not so long after its crackdown on foreign-language only signs in Xintiandi, the language police are now on to their next target -- the Shanghai Metro! They have objected to plans by the subway operator to train its staff to learn basic phrases in five major Chinese dialects -- a plan that is not without controversy -- so as to help domestic tourists and visitors when they ask for fares and directions. As can be......

MONDAY 7:30 am, Yanchang Lu Station, Line One: A 24-year-old man jumped off a platform in front of a train at Yanchang Road Station on Metro Line 1 this morning but only suffered broken toes, according to Shanghai Metro police. The man was waiting for train with his father and grandfather about 7:30am, when he suddenly jumped into the tunnel as a train was pulling in. Police said he tried to commit suicide because of......

This morning, Chinese language news portal 163.com had a great scoop, and revealed the future planning for Shanghai and China's Maglev railway system. Shanghaiist's Chinese ability is sadly limited, but using the new-fangled internet technology we reported on earlier this week, we were able to get the gist of the 163.com article. The article reveals that the current 30km long section of the Pudong Airport-Longyang Road Maglev line will be extended to eventually form a......

Those of you in the know may have heard that new ticketing machines are making an appearance on the Shanghai Metro system. Yesterday, Shanghaiist passed through the Century Park station and witnessed two new ticket vending machines that include the option to recharge your stored-value card straight from your bank card, unpacked but not yet in use. Awesome. These new machines are being added at selected stations around the city. Also, a big local Party......

Alert web surfers notice that the Shanghai Metro has redesigned their website. The English version is well done, and has some cool "inside" pictures of the subway car storage warehouse. Poster QQme reports columns going up near Pudong airport that suggest work has already begun on the eastern extension of Line 2. Other commenters wonder if this will make the Maglev even more of a white elephant. Poster aabcdefj must be on the inside because......

What’s that old Chinese proverb? “If you’re going to change something, just do it bit by bit -- never all at once.” Okay, maybe it’s one of the lesser known proverbs. In any case, it would seem to be the modus operandi behind the Shanghai Metro at the moment. On a ride on Line 2 today we noticed that a couple of new station names have been stuck on some of the diagrams lining the......

Tipped by scRambler, we checked out Shanghai Daily's slick new Live in Shanghai website ... and we have to say we are impressed. Helpful and comprehensive, the site covers most of the basics any newcomer to the city would want to know. We wish a site like this existed, oh, four years and six weeks ago. Live in Shanghai is split up into four major sections -- Fast Facts, Transport, Housing and, of course, Miscellaneous......

Remember that phone number for a real company that deals in fake documents that showed up in M:I:3? Well, it may lead to more cuts to the film before it opens in China later this month.More Yu Yuan for everyone!Newport, Rhode Island is in the house! American illustrations are headed to the Shanghai Art Museum.Shanghai Metro: No driver? No problem.Buy Sister Hibiscus' words online.Volkswagen has pulled some advertisements out of the Shanghai metro system after......

Shanghai has unveiled the maps for metro lines 6 through 9. Line 6 is expected to go into operation next year. It will include 28 stops, all in Pudong. For info on the other lines, follow the above link. Of course, that story, entitled "City unveils maps of 4 new Metro lines," fails to include one important thing -- maps. Not even a link. We found the maps here, however, in Chinese. For detailed looks......

Shanghaiist has seen "countdown"-style traffic lights elsewhere in China, most-recently on our drive to Moganshan last weekend (it was our first time behind the wheel in China, and for the most part, despite some annoyances -- people using the shoulder as a lane, etc. -- it was fine). Anyway, the tick-tick-tick stopwatch-style lights Shanghai pedestrians have become accustomed to are now being tried out on the city's drivers, who, incidentally, are supposed to yield to......