From today's paper. That settles it, I'm geting another motorcycle as soon as possible.
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A total of 284 injured passengers have been treated at hospitals since a subway train rear-ended another on Metro Line 10 yesterday afternoon, Shanghai authorities said today.
By 9am today, 95 were still hospitalized. The others were discharged.
Metro Line 10 is closed today between the Yili Road Station and Sichuan Road North Station as the affected section is undergoing safety checks.
The closure put great pressure on road traffic during the rush hours. Traffic authorities deployed 100 buses to shuttle between the 12 closed stations to send commuters to work.
Many commuters said they had no idea of the Metro suspension, which was announced last night.
"I saw many people coming out of the Hailun Road Station to take buses this morning," said a woman surnamed Lu. "The Siping Road was in a great jam," she said.
It is still not known when Metro Line 10 will return to service.
A signaling glitch caused the rear-end accident near downtown Yuyuan Garden Station at about 2:50pm. A slowing train rammed into another that had stalled in the tunnel for nearly 40 minutes.
Two trains collided in a Metro Line 1 tunnel after a power glitch on the morning of December 22, 2009. There were no injuries because one of the trains was empty and both were running slowly. But passengers were trapped inside the damaged train for up to four hours on that occasion. And tens of thousands of commuters were stranded at eight Line 1 stations for the entire morning.
On August 2 this year, a Metro Line 10 train broke down shortly after it left a station and none of its doors could be opened. Passengers were forced to evacuate one by one through the driver's cab.
A few days earlier, on July 28, an error on a signaling system being tested on Line 10 caused a train to take a wrong turn. The train, which should have been heading for Hangzhong Road after leaving Longxi Road, instead took the other line on the Y-shaped intersection and ended up at Hongqiao Railway Station.
On March 10, a power failure in downtown Shanghai forced thousands of Line 2 passengers to evacuate stranded trains which were stuck in tunnels and stations.
More frequently, signal system failures have caused train delays along the city's Metro lines. A signal system failure on Line 6 caused trains to be delayed for about 40 minutes and left huge crowds waiting at the Jufeng Road station in Pudong on May 27.
Lines 6 and 8 reported frequent delays at the initial stage of operation in 2009 for signaling modification.
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