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November 13, 2006
According to today's <strong>Shanghai Morning Post</strong> (A2), hundreds of new and old route and street maps in Shanghai metro stations have mistakes on them that are confusing passengers. New maps at several stations move the former Henan Middle Road stop across the river to Pudong, drop Line 4's Yangshupu Rd station into the middle of the Huanpu River, and nudge the Nanpu Bridge stop inland from its actual position on the banks of the Huangpu. Furthermore, many signs still show the old names of the new Nanjing East and West Rds stops (Henan Middle Rd and Shimen No 1 Rd, respectively) and have Dongfang Rd (now Century/Shiji Avenue) marked as "closed due to construction", belying its current reopened state. Incredibly enough, some station platform city roadmaps haven't even been updated to show Line 4 which opened nearly a year ago. The subway management issued a blanket statement saying that it is expensive to replace all the signs at once so they're holding out until the Line 2 extension towards Hongqiao opens at the end of this year, and that confused passengers can direct any questions towards station staff.
November 11, 2006
No news today (weekend!), but here's a few public-transportation related pictures from a jaunt around town:
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/msittig/294390394/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/122/294390394_492eba17cb.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="New signs at People's Square" /></a>
People's Square has new signs up anticipating the Line 2 extension towards Hongqiao. Zhongshan Park will give up its status as the western terminal station of Line 2 on December 28.
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/msittig/294388760/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/106/294388760_0b0eb1283a.jpg" width="500" height="281" alt="New Line 2 stations" /></a>
People's Square has new signs up anticipating the Line 2 extension towards Hongqiao. New station names heading west from Zhongshan Park are: Loushanguan Rd, Weining Rd, Beixinjing, and Songhong Rd.
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/msittig/294390486/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/119/294390486_b2eed4a909.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="Line 2" /></a>
Subway train pulling into People's Square station (Line 2). Yes, the camera was iin front of the yellow line!
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/msittig/294390525/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/111/294390525_ee92c1867e.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="Line 2" /></a>
Subway train pulling out of People's Square station (Line 2). Caught the tail-end of the train so that the advertisements are visible "through" the train.
November 10, 2006
From the <strong>Shanghai Morning Post</strong>, a new rule has been put in place at the Pudong Airport taxi line to keep arriving taxis from picking up a number and then waiting outside the airport until 11pm before going to the passenger pick-up area in order to collect the higher night-rate. The new rule says that taxis who use more than 20 minutes to go from the check-in point to the passenger pick-up area will have to go back and get a new number. Since a number of flights come in at around 10:30pm, it was becoming a problem that taxis who arrived starting at 10pm were waiting until 11pm to pick up passengers.
Also, today's paper has 5 pages of coverage of the American election (and none of the Britney Spears divorce), mentions “Firefox、Maxthon、TT” in regards to compatibility with the city government's new Google Earth killer (reporter complains about having to install Java, and still crashing; finally honest coverage of the Internets), and once again has <em>way</em> too many real estate ads.