| Baotou Metro | |
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| Overview | |
| Owner | City of Baotou |
| Locale | Baotou, Inner Mongolia, China |
| Transit type | Rapid transit |
| Number of lines | 6 |
| Number of stations | 125 |
| Operation | |
| Operation will start | Suspended indefinitely (originally 2022) |
| Operator(s) | Baotou Metro Investment Group Co., Ltd |
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| System length | 182.5 km (113.40 mi) |
| Track gauge | 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) |
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| Simplified Chinese | 包头地铁 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 包頭地鐵 | ||||||
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| Mongolian Cyrillic | Бугатын Метро | ||||||
| Mongolian script | ᠪᠤᠭᠤᠲᠤ ᠵᠢᠨ ᠮᠸᠲ᠋ᠷᠤ᠋ | ||||||
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Baotou Metro is a proposed metro system to serve the city of Baotou, Inner Mongolia, China. Construction started in May 2017, and Lines 1 & 2 were to be open by 2022 when initial go ahead was granted by the NDRC in 2016,[1] but the project was put on hold by the NDRC in November 2017 owing to concerns over cost.[2]
Line planning
The east-west Line 1 is to be 27.8 km (17.3 mi) long with 22 stations. Construction was to begin on the Yuan 20.19bn ($US 3bn) project in May 2017 with commissioning scheduled for 2021.
The first phase of the north-south Line 2 was 14.3 km (8.9 mi) long with 11 stations and has a budget of Yuan 10.36bn. Construction was due to begin in 2018 and the line is to open in 2022.
Services on both lines was to be operated by a fleet of six-car type A metro trains operating at a maximum of 80 km/h (50 mph).
In the longer-term a 182.5 km (113.40 mi) six-line network with 125 stations was envisaged. However the entire plan is suspended as of November 2017.[2]
References
- ↑ "China Baotou Metro". Retrieved 20 November 2017 – via LinkedIn.
- 1 2 Goh, Brenda (15 November 2017). "Beijing Hits Brakes on Subway Boom Over Debt Concerns". Reuters. Archived from the original on 6 December 2017. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
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