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Alstom and its local partners took part in this achievement
by supplying operator Shanghai Shentong with 44 (out of 64)
metro cars for the extension of line 2, and 24 (out of 46)
Metropolis trainsets. An Urbalis CBTC (communications-based
train control) signalling system will be operational on this
line in 2011.
The extension of Line 2 provides a link between the two
international airports (Pudong in the east and Honqiao in the
west) and the town centre in only 90 minutes. Line 10 links the
city’s northwest and southwest via 27 stations and serves
major commercial, cultural and tourist areas. Four further
stations branching off the main line will open by the end of
the year.
These entries into commercial service make Shanghai’s
metro one of the largest networks in the world, with11 lines,
420 kilometres of tracks, 282 stations and 2,500 metro
cars—1,000 of which Alstom supplied.