Question: World’s Longest Metro Line Opens In Shanghai. What is total length of this metro line?
a) 813 km
b) 790Km
c) 819Km
d) 820 Km
Ans:a
Related Facts :
- China’s biggest city and a global financial hub, Shanghai is going to extend a new driverless and longest metro line on Thursday(December30,2021) reported by The Global Times.
- With the latest inclusion of metro lines, the total length of Shanghai’s metro network will extend to 831 km, continuing to be the longest in the world.
- According to the metro official, the new line will connect a few of the popular areas of Shanghai including Jiading, Putuo, Jing’an, Huangpu districts and Pudong New.
- New metro line to reduce travel time by 80 minutes
- History of Indian Metro Train:
- The first rapid transits system in India was Kolkata Metro, which started operations i 1984.
- Elattuvalapil Sreedharan’, popularly known as Metro Man was behind this great effort.
- Delhi Metro was India’s first modern metro which began its operation in 2002.
- Rapid Metro Rail Gurgaon, which started operatioons in November 2013, is India’s first privately owned & operated metro.
- Metro rail lines in India is composed of both standard gauges and broad gauges.
- Project likes in Delhi Metro used broad guage for their earliest lines but most of the new project in India are on Standard gauges as rolling stock is imported from Europe is on Standard Gauges.
- One exception is Ahemdabad Metro, which has planned to use broad gauges, as there is more space available inside the coaches.