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Edition HistoryEdit Shanghai City Transportation

The public traffic

1 The bus

There are more than 1,000 bus lines in Shanghai city and about 50 bus lines are being opened, adjusted or lengthened every year.

Grouped by time, there are daytime buses, the rush hour buses in the morning and afternoon headed with 2 of the license number and the night buses headed with3.

Classified by area, there are western Pu River area, eastern Pu River area, around the Pu River (bridge and tunnel), and the suburban area.

Grouped by ticket, there are no-conductor buses with one Yuan ticket (within 13 km) or 1.5Yuan ticket (more than 13 km), air-conditioned buses with 2Yuan ticket and special lined buses with multiple tickets.

The main transit centers in the city are Shanghai station, people’s square, Xu Jiahui area, Zhong Shan Park and the five-pointed square.

Kind reminder:

1. People can design the bus lines with computers.

    Details are in Shanghai traffic: www.jt.sh.ch  and City traffic: www.chinaquest.com

2. The bus ticket in Shanghai:

   ① No-conductor buses.

There are 1Yuan and 1.5Yuan tickets. The buses with double digit and three digit numbers which begins with 1 or 2 or 7 are mostly go without conductor. Passengers should prepare the changes. People can also buy commutation tickets. The ticket can not return if it is sold.

   ② diversified-ticket buses:

The special-lined buses with the first number of 5; special-lined buses to the new arrears of Pu Dong; the minibus lines with the first number of 8; the double-layered buses or air-conditioned buses with the first number of 9; many other air-conditioned tourism buses; the sightseeing buses.

2 Taxi

(1) General situation

There are about 50.000 taxies in Shanghai most of  which are Santana. The largest taxi companies in shanghai are Volks Wagen (lake blue), Qiang Sheng(yellow), Johnson(white), Bus(green)and Hai Bo(blue).

(2) The charge is shown in the following table

Kind reminder:

1. Travelers can bargain down the price during the night and can share a taxi together for several people.

2. If there is a waiting time, the driver will charge you as one meter’s cost for each five minutes.

(3) The taxi booking and complaining telephone number.

3 Magnetic suspension train

The demonstration line of the maglev train is the important project of the shanghai traffic development during the tenth five-year development period of the nation and is also the first maglev train used in business in the world with the function of transporting, displaying, tourism and sightseeing. The magnetic suspension train is from Long Yang Stop of the No.2 subway in the west to Pu Dong International Airport in the east which eased the heavy traffic between the city and PuDong Airport. The whole line was 30km long, including the upper departing line and the lower arriving line with the speed of 430km/h. it will cost us 8 minutes for a single line. Since March, 29th, 2004, the magnetic suspension train has adjusted the running time. In former time, the train works half a day during work time and a whole day at weekend. Nowadays, it opens from 8:30am to 5:30 pm everyday at the interval of 20 minutes with 54 schedules in total.

In order to embody the advantage of the magnetic suspension train, the department has taken some measures like the passengers are entitled to a 80% discount of the single train ticket by showing the air ticket of that day that is 40 Yuan for an ordinary ticket and 80Yuan for the VIP ticket. Meanwhile, accompanied by adults, children who are less than 1.2 meters are free. The ticket is valid that day and other times invalid. Travelers should get the tickets examined 20 minutes ahead of the time printed on the ticket s the examination would stop 5minutes before the maglev train starting.

Kind reminder:  

Address: the magnetic suspension station, Long Yang Road.