Huixin Xijie Nankou | |
Native Name: | 惠新西街南口 |
Native Name Lang: | zh |
Symbol Location: | beijing |
Symbol: | subway |
Other Name: | Beituchengdonglu[1] [2] (北土城东路) |
Address: | Huixin West Street (Chinese: 惠新西街) and Beitucheng East Road |
Borough: | Chaoyang District, Beijing |
Country: | China |
Map Type: | Beijing |
Operator: | Beijing Mass Transit Railway Operation Corporation Limited |
Line: | |
Platforms: | 4 (1 island platform and 2 side platforms) |
Tracks: | 4 |
Structure: | Underground |
Accessible: | Yes |
Opened: | (Line 5) (Line 10) |
Huixin Xijie Nankou station[3] is a station on Line 5 and Line 10 of the Beijing Subway. The station handled a peak passenger traffic of 241,700 people on May 5, 2013.[4]
The two parts of the station opened separately: Line 5 and part of the concourse opened October 7, 2007, while the rest opened along with Line 10 on July 19, 2008.
Both the line 5 and 10 stations are underground. The line 5 station has an island platform, while the line 10 station has 2 side platforms.
There are 4 exits, lettered A, B, C, and D. Exits B and C are accessible.
On November 6, 2014, a woman was killed when she tried to board the train at Huixinxijie Nankou Station on Beijing Subway's Line 5. She became trapped between the train door and the platform edge door and was crushed to death by the departing train. The accident happened on the second day of APEC China 2014 meetings in the city during which the municipal government has banned cars from the roads on alternate says to ease congestion and reduce pollution during the summit – measures which the capital's transport authorities have estimated would lead to an extra one million extra passengers on the subway every day.[5]