Baotou Metro Explained

Baotou Metro
Owner:City of Baotou
Locale:Baotou, Inner Mongolia, China
Transit Type:Rapid transit
Lines:6
Stations:125
Operator:Baotou Metro Investment Group Co., Ltd
System Length:182.52NaN2
Operation Will Start:Suspended indefinitely (originally 2022)

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 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 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 .

In the longer-term a six-line network with 125 stations was envisaged. However the entire plan is suspended as of November 2017.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: China Baotou Metro . 20 November 2017 . LinkedIn .
  2. News: Goh . Brenda . 15 November 2017 . Beijing Hits Brakes on Subway Boom Over Debt Concerns . Reuters . live . 20 November 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171206005749/https://ca.reuters.com/article/topNews/idCAKBN1DF0K9-OCATP . 6 December 2017.