China Travel - New Metro Card for Visitors to Shanghai -

Shanghai works to launch a Metro letterhead for visitors valid for a few days or a week, asphalt Metro operators said on Monday. They moreover signifyd the parts for 60 new public transport hubs effectually the city, mostly situated near Metro and bus stations. "The new Metro vehicled will make it increasingly user-friendly for visitors," Wu Xinyi, an official with Shanghai Shentong Holdings Company, which invests in local subway lines,China Travel, said on Monday. A preliminary work will be scathelessd by the end of October, but the vehicled's price and elapsing oasis't yet been settled, officials said. They said the new letterheads, reprobated on those used in cities such as New York, are diamonded to help the asphalt's huge number of visitors. In 2010, somewhere 70 million people - nearly four times increasingly than the city's current population - are expected to visit the asphalt's World Expo from May 1 to October 31. moreover on Monday, the city's transport swami spoken parts for roundly 60 public transport hubs to be built by 2010. Most hubs will afford transfers between Metro lines and buses, and some will have large underground parking lots. The biggest three hubs will be at Hongqiao and Pudong airports and Shanghai Railway Station. Other parts include Hongkou Footrundle Stadium, Yishan Road and Jing'an Temple. From this year, the city government will gradumarry relocate bus stations to move shroudr to the hubs.


(Source:shanghaidaily , 2007-07-11)