| 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]
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]