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Beijing’s subway system is expected to become the world’s largest by 2015, with investment set to touch $10.8 billion by 2010. The investment would take the length of rail lines to 561 km by 2015 with a capacity to carry nine million passengers daily, when the rail service would extend from the downtown areas to many key locations on the city’s fringes, including the Olympic Park and seven suburban satellite cities.

The subway transport would account for 50 per cent of all public transit use within eight years, easing pressure on the roads, Xinhua news agency, quoting Beijing Morning Post, said.

Construction on five new subway routes is on. The capital now has a combined length of 142 km, carrying about 2.3 million passengers each day. - PTI

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