Combining half-naked girls with winks and sexual innuendo is nothing new to advertising, but this week 2345.com took that classic combo one step further. As a result, their sexy ad segments currently screening on Shanghai metro and bus TVs are causing quite a tizzy among parents and less-than-amused passengers. more ›

Shanghai Metro authorities have proposed that Shanghai's local dialect join English and Mandarin as one of the official languages for Metro announcements. The exact reason behind the addition remains yet unclear, and not surprisingly, the fledgling project has sparked a furious debate. more ›

This morning, three of Shanghai's eleven metro lines suffered delays. Line 10 had to hit the emergency brakes at Sichuan North Station, Line 4 saw a worker almost get hit by a train, and Line 2 saw a crowd control nightmare at Century Avenue Station. more ›

Almost two months after the terrifying Line 10 rear-end collision that left 280 injured and cast aspersions over Shanghai's claim to modernity, Shanghai's Metro system continues to be plagued by a myriad of technical problems. more ›

Last month's horrifying rear-end collision on the Shanghai Metro saw 284 people hospitalised and while thankfully nobody died from the incident, many questions remain unanswered. more ›

Far over a year into Shanghai metro security operation, somebody decided to check whether those much-hated scanners are operating in accordance with the proper safety measures. Turns out metro security are about as concerned with radiation safety as they are with actually scanning bags. more ›

In the aftermath of the Line 10 subway car collision that occurred due to faulty train signals, information is coming to light regarding the provider of Shanghai Metro's signaling technology. more ›

A rear-end collision took place today at around 2:30pm or 3pm at the Laoximen metro stop on Line 10 (some reports say Yuyuan Gardens Station, but we're taking the most recent reports.) Due to a signal failure in Xintiandi Station, the trains reportedly had switched to manual control, which is where things went wrong. more ›

Huzzah! Line 2, Shanghai's busiest Metro line is stepping its game up beginning on Thursday, by shortening waiting times along certain stops, in addition to extending service hours. The move is being made to meet demand from travelers and residents who need evening access to the city's two airports. The stretch running from Guanglan Road Station to Pudong International Airport will now provide daily service from 6am to 10pm, extending the current daily service time by 1.5 hours. The waiting time between trains from Guanglan Road to Pudong Airport will be reduced to 7 minutes from the current 8.5 minutes during rush hour. Three extra trains will be added for the section between Guanglan Road and Yuandong Avenue, with services concluding at 10:24pm. As for the western section of Line 2, trains running from Yuandong Avenue station to East Xujing station (which includes both Hongqiao Airport stops) will have their intervals reduced to 6 minutes 42 seconds, down from the current time of 10 minutes. Current end of service for the downtown sections of Line 2 is 11pm. more ›

The life of the "BMW ethnicity" (bus walk metro) in Shanghai is a somber one. Shanghai boasts the longest metro system in the world, and has the 4th highest ridership in the world, yet those who ride the metro on a day to day basis probably wouldn't list it as something they cherish. Of the many adjectives people would use to describe the system in its current state today you could subdivide those descriptions into two groups: more ›

Somebody took new info over at United Metro and made us another insane mock up of what the metro will look like in 2030! We've already seen the madness predicted for 2020, but this map managed to clean things up a bit. See a bigger version here. more ›

Taken from Weibo, the above picture shows a male foreigner helping out a man who was seemingly suffering from an epileptic seizure last Friday. According to passengers, an emaciated Chinese man was sitting on Metro Line 2 when he suddenly began to violently shudder and foam at the mouth. A nearby foreigner acted quickly by selflessly putting his expensive wallet into the man's mouth to prevent him from biting off his tongue - a common misconception about seizures. The foreigner stayed with the man and helped him to retrieve pills from his bag before wordlessly getting off the subway. more ›

Oh my god Shanghai. Arm yourselves. Not 24 hours after a wicked Line 4 escalator cackled before terrifying passengers last night, one of the most highly-trafficked escalators in Jing'an Temple caught fire today! Plumes of white smoke are said to have spilled out onto Nanjing W Road, engulfing the mall above the metro stop around 10:40am this morning. more ›

The machines truly are out to get us. Another Otis metro escalator malfunctioned yesterday evening around 6:30pm at Yangshupu Station on Line 4. Witnesses reported on Weibo that while riding the up escalator, the machine suddenly emitted a "giggle" sound near the bottom and then slowly reversed direction! Terrified passengers started scrambling up the stairs as metro employees immediately shut it down to avoid an accident. more ›

Frustrated by repeated and frequent metro malfunctions around town? Angry and stressed because Shanghai isn't the happiest town in China? Well, via its new alternative advertising campaign, Adidas is now encouraging you to beat the crap out of the Shanghai subway system! Or a few well-padded columns in the Xujiahui Line 1 metro stop, at least. more ›

Since people in Shanghai love constant surprises, the Shanghai Metro has been pulling out all the stops this summer, coming out with one hit after another on the Line 10 of Doom. We've been privileged enough to witness Line 10 trains going in the wrong direction, platform doors shattering, and now trains breaking down with all the doors shut and impossible to open from inside. more ›

We know China's going bat-shit crazy over the new Transformers 3 movie right now, but this is taking it a bit far, don't you think? Thanks to tipster Jack for this photo of transfer TRANSFORM information on a Line 2 metro ticker. more ›

Well, it looks like the unthinkable has happened. Last Saturday night at the Century Avenue metro station, a security inspector roughed up a passenger for refusing to go through the security check. Witnesses recorded the mayhem and shared it online. As a result, the guard and his superiors were removed from their posts. more ›

In an effort to absolutely terrify everybody everywhere, escalators have started going haywire all over China! Or rather, in two cities within a week. Following Beijing's disaster last week, another escalator accident occurred at 9pm last night in Shenzhen's Huaqiang Road (华强路) metro stop, leaving two people injured. more ›

Because if there is anything Shanghai residents need, it's more pampering: "...if passengers are unhappy with a train's temperature, they can speak to the driver through the emergency intercom system. Alternately, they can dial the complaint hotline, 6437000 or advise Metro workers at stations. The air-conditioning temperature setting is based on what is considered comfortable, but passengers may feel cold or hot, depending on how full trains are. Though the temperature has been set when a train leaves the terminal, drivers now can adjust the temperature according to passengers' needs, said Shentong Group. The new system is on all lines except Line 1, where the air-conditioning system is too old to be upgraded." [Shanghai Daily] Wow, Shanghai metro, you are opening an entirely unnecessary can of worms. I can only imagine the abuse those emergency intercoms will be seeing in the coming months. more ›

Caught in a rainstorm and need an umbrella? No problem, just come on down to your nearest local metro station and pick up a free one! That's right, FREE. Once again, Shanghai's metro stations are renewing their hugely popular service of free umbrella rentals during the plum rain season (June). more ›

Shanghai has begun scaling back its suburban bus routes, canceling lines and changing some so they terminate at a metro stop instead of going all the way into the city. City traffic authorities say that changes to 283 routes (out of a total 1,165) will help reduce congestion in the city. Residents have begun complaining, saying they are being forced to ride the metro, sometimes paying both bus fair (2 yuan) and metro fair (3-5 yuan) to get into the city, where once only a single bus sufficed. But eventually Shanghai transportation management actually hopes to increase, not decrease, the number of bus routes in an effort to increase the number of commuters using public transportation (currently only 30%.) The changes now are aimed at consolidation and efficiency. more ›

UPDATE: Okay, apparently it's just 500km in total. Not 500km extra. That's 80km of subway tracks built in the next year. Everyone in the city knew that the Shanghai government wasn't going to stop adding tracks to the subway system now that the Expo is over, but it's kind of awe-inspiring to see what those track plans entail: 500 kilometers by 2012 - more than doubling what they have now (which at 420km of track is already the longest in the world). Awesome! more ›

Four new stations opened yesterday on Line 10 and all of them have something to do with Hongqiao Airport. So if you're flying out of there and want to transfer between the two terminals, take the subway. Well, except if your flight falls anywhere out of the 6am to 10pm window, that is. Before, after that, you'll have to taxi it. more ›

According to Shanghai Daily, over the last six months, 1.05 billion passengers rode the Shanghai metro system. That means that the daily average passenger volume was 5.78 million. Astonishingly, that's actually only a 17% rise on what it was before Expo started, meaning that even if it goes down to pre-Expo levels, that's still the population of Greater Boston traveling on our subways each day. more ›

Another bright piece of news about the end of the World Expo, security checks in subway stations to continue harassing and delaying commuters with metal detectors and security wands. According to The Global Times, the scanners stopped nearly 10,000 cases of fake Expo products from being smuggled. Considering the elimination of counterfeit Haibao toys as protecting the public from evildoers, metro authorities will continue creating traffic jams at entrance ways around the city. At least, trains will still operate on expo hours, running as late as 10:30PM! more ›

Enjoy your last bite of stinky tofu before you go through the turnstiles into the Shanghai Metro, authorities have turned up their sensitive noses and added this putrid morsel to the list of banned items in the Metro. More specifically, goods with strong smells are to be banned henceforth, which has left the public confused and uncertain as to how to follow this new rule. more ›

Congratulations Matt! Our good friend at Exploremetro has managed to get a million people to download his iPhone app - and he's decided to celebrate by giving it out for free! Just for the next two days though. In case you own an iPhone and were on the fence about picking this up, now's the time to give it a twirl. You would have to empty your pockets of 99 cents otherwise! more ›

Perhaps influenced by a spate of metro accidents in Shanghai, some guy with a death wish recently uploaded a video of one of the subway trains on Line 3 coming head on. How did he make the video? By jumping onto the tracks as the train was coming and quickly lying down, filming it taking place overhead. WHAT THE HELL. more ›

Noticed how busy the metro seems recently? That's probably because its carrying a record amount of people - almost 7 million a day in fact! On Friday, it hit a peak with 6.72 million passengers, but that's set to rise in the near future. That's right - soon, the Shanghai metro will transport the equivalent to the entire population of Israel. To ease the congestion from all those riders, Shanghai Metro has said it will be adding services to increase capacity. more ›