History
Controversy
Like the Lexington Avenue Subway in New York City, passenger traffic has consistently exceeded the designed capacity of the line since its opening and causes severe strain to the services. The planning of Line 6 began in 2000, but real estate development along the proposed line happened faster than anticipated upon the line's initial opening. Uniquely at the time, a majority of the Line 6 opened in one phase creating a 30 kilometer long corridor overnight. Existing buses were cancelled or diverted simultaneously due to the opening of Line 6, forcing residents along the line to travel by rail transit. This was exacerbated by high initial train headways upon opening as all ordered rolling stock have not been completely delivered. Additionally, the line had relatively short operating hours leading to large number of passengers flooding into the first train. Line 6 was initially forecasted to carry 105,000 people/day. However the aforementioned factors led to the ridership of the line to exceed 150,000 people/day during the first few days of operation. Realizing the sheer miscalculation during construction, the municipal government have pledged to add new trains and shorten wait times starting in June 2008. However, Line 6 still suffers severe crowding and delays especially during rush hours with passenger flow growing faster than expected. In 2012 the busiest section of the line was still running at 133% capacity. With the opening of Line 12 (Shanghai Metro), Line 12 the Shanghai Metro advises passengers divert to the new line to relieve crowding. The line was built to accommodate Medium-capacity rail transport system, light metro narrow-bodied "C size" trains with 4 carriages each, which is not interchangeable with wide-body "A size" trains with 6 to 8 carriages on other Shanghai Metro lines. This difference in loading gauge has made it impractical to upgrade the line to higher capacity "A size" trains to relieve demand. The platform length (especially at underground stations) has made it impractical to upgrade the line to accommodate more carriages.Stations
Service routes
Important stations
*Century Avenue Station, Century Avenue is an interchange with lines Line 2 (Shanghai Metro), 2, Line 4 (Shanghai Metro), 4 and Line 9 (Shanghai Metro), 9. *Lancun Road Station, Lancun Road is an interchange with Line 4 (Shanghai Metro), line 4. *West Gaoke Road Station, West Gaoke Road is an interchange with Line 7 (Shanghai Metro), line 7. *Oriental Sports Center Station, Oriental Sports Center, the final station of line 6, opened in April 2011. It is an interchange with lines Line 8 (Shanghai Metro), 8 and Line 11 (Shanghai Metro), 11. *Jufeng Road Station, Jufeng Road is an interchange with Line 12 (Shanghai Metro), line 12. *Dongming Road Station, Dongming Road is an interchange with Line 13 (Shanghai Metro), line 13. *Gangcheng Road Station, Gangcheng Road, the other terminal station of line 6, interchange with Line 10 (Shanghai Metro), line 10. *Yunshan Road Station, Yunshan Road is an interchange with Line 14 (Shanghai Metro), line 14.Future expansion
There are no plans to extend the line.Station name change
* On 28 October 2006, Century Avenue, Dongfang Road was renamed as the after station renovation for Line 2 (Shanghai Metro), line 2 and the opening of Line 4 (Shanghai Metro), line 4 (before line 6 began serving the station). * On May 7, 2011, Oriental Sports Center station, Jiyang Road was renamed .Headways
Technology
Signalling
Rolling Stock
The designed speed of the train is 80 km/h, the length (Type A carriages are longer at 23 meters) is 19.49 meters (Tc)/19.44 meters (Mp, M), and the width (Type A carriages are wider at 3.0 meters) is 2.6 meters.References