Near-term plan： 2021: Capital Airport Express extend to Beixinqiao 2km Line 8 North-south connection 4km Line 11 (Winter Olympics branch line ) 4km Line 14 East-West connection 6km Line 17 Phase One 17km Line 19 Phase One 16km S1 Line Jin'anqiao~Pingguoyuan 1.2km 2022: Line 12 26km Line 16 Southern section 18km Line 17 Northern section 26km Daxing Airport Express extend to Lize Business District 3km Changping Line Phase Two 9km Line 1 Fushouling reopen 1.7km
This is just unbelievable.... in 2 years. And meanwhile in Berlin 3 new stations opened in 2020 (should have been opened in 2017) and it seems to be such a big deal. 😂😭😭
@@andy.8444 No, that's mostly are postponed extensions from 2020 to 2021~2024+. The most ridiculous are line 3........ We still dont have a line 3, which scheduled to open in 2020 but only eastern part will be constructed and postponed to 2023. Line 3 was originally planed back in 1950s....
@@PabloMartinez-do9uw That depends on how you define subway and metro, Beijing all city railway 700km, and within about 500km is underground. In Tokyo, Toei+Metro 400km, mostly underground, JR and other railway companies is much longer that that, but mostly on ground. So Beijing has as same size underground as Tokyo, but much much shorter in city railway. Tokyo railway system is more than 3000km long.
@@PabloMartinez-do9uw And using population of Shinjuku, Ikebukuro, Shibuya 3 stations combined is more than 10m per day, that’s larger than entire Beijing metro.
@@chonglangtv8923 yeah but in 1991 beijing just got a short metro line.Compare with Japan,the speed of construction is very fast.The future is very clear that in some day, Beijing will develop a better metro network.
@@PabloMartinez-do9uw In China most (more than 95%) railway system is only used for long distance(more than 100Km) trip ,in the past several years Beijing began to built its city railway system but only in the suburb area.In Japan railway system can used for short or long distance trip.Although they called railway system but they are two different things.
@@ВацлавЗапольский That's unlikely. Can you give any evidence for your statement? I am a resident of a second-tier city (Wuhan), here every subway station has elevators. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuhan_Metro The subway stations in the capital should be better than the ones here.
@@shanqi9843 Welp, I thought so cuz I saw traval blogs (not the greatest source of info Ik) and guys there were going down the ladder and there seem to be no other way of going down so I just got kinda spooked (cuz I was going to study in China by myself actually) that every morning I'll have to walk these endless ladders to get where I want. But tbh it will be such a reliase if it's not true (I'm not fat or smth) maybe I even provide a link ruclips.net/video/0cFdzhQyyQU/видео.html&ab_channel=varlamov 1:07 it's in russian but I guess you'll see what u need
LOL when I watched your other videos, someone was saying how NYC and London metro are super complicated and it made me think that the newer built Chinese metros must be way simpler. Long story short, I ended up studying the Beijing metro for a good hour. Now you’re making a video about its extensions. Nice coincidence!
@@PatheticTV sorry but..It's NO and NO. The Hongkongese MTR itself is a replica of the Japanese JR system and it is Not the model for most of the CHinese systems. The hongkonese follows a textbook TOD model with real estate developments expend following the newly opened metro lines - as a result you can expect transportation-commerce-residential super complex at each station and the investment for the metro will be recovered from the property development. It's not the model for China at all if you could do some little research.
@@PatheticTV The way Hong Kong street are organized, population density is very different from most Chinese cities. Chinese cities mostly are not more spreaded with lower population density. Also many cities haave many sub-centers and multiple train stations. Hong Kong style is fewer lines but more capacity per train. Most Chinese cities need variety of combinations to serve not jus core city but vast suburbs and satellite towns.
@@flx4305 It's a pretty clear copy of JR's handbook though, he's right. Both companies are basically an intricate system of shopping centres and residential skyscrapers with train lines attached, and happen to be the only profitable systems in the world because of it.
I remember when I was a kid I was used to the fact that we only had 2 lines. My home was just 5min walk from the Yuquanlu station, built in the 70s. Then one day suddenly a “Line 13” came from nowhere, and in 5 years we had so many more lines. Pity that I have not taken all of them.
I took Line 1 once or twice back in the days when there were only 2 lines. It was exciting to a little kid. They have "revamped" some of the old Line 1 and 2 stations by adding rail guards (sliding doors) and connection tunnels to other lines, but I'm glad the aesthetics of those much-older stations haven't changed too much.
Ok that was amazing, love how they just invested into public transport to prepare for the 2008 olympics, and than continued further expanding existing lines and joining them with new or old lines, making the city and its people more connected. Would be interested to see the effect it has had in air pollution improvements aswell, since it gives people an alternaltive. Also interesting to see the lines follow the road, not sure how deep it is. but will make rescue efforts simpler.
Unfortunately, China's people purchased so many cars and the economy has grown so much that air pollution is pretty bad. It's more than offset the effect of the subway, but it's slowly getting better as the government cleans up the grid.
Amazing video, right now China already has 44 cities with subway, and the top four metro system are all in China according to the milage: Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, and Chengdu. When I watched your first video about New York, I thought you should do a video for Chinese city like this, then I found you just uploaded this video four hours before, thank you so much for you great effort.
New York still have longer track because many lines are duel or even four tracks to enable running local express and local trains. Also commuter rails are not included. All Chinese subways are either local or express not both.
The first line of my hometown- Shenyang has been opened since 2010 when I was just 10, and there have been 4 running lines today. By their names Line 1 2 9 and 10, we can see how many lines have been planned to build in this city. Although the city does not rank high in the country, it is actually home to more than 8 million people. We really need more metro lines🥰
extra notes about stations that did not open with the opening of the line or the line extension: 2:04 (line 15 wangjing west to houshayu) along this route, wangjing east station did not open until december 31st 2016 (6 years later) due to surrounding area construction problems. 2:55 (when line 8 extended south from beitucheng to guloudajie) andelibeijie station did not open until december 26th 2015 (3 years later) due to unfinished construction of the station. 3:00 (when the 2nd phase of line 10 opened) jiaomen east station did not open until may 5th 2013 (6 months later) due to unfinished construction of the station. 3:05 (when line 9 extended north to national library) military museum station did not open and able to transfer to line 1 until december 21st 2013 (about 1 year and 4 months later) due to unfinished interchange channel. 3:23 (when the western phase of line 14 opened) qilizhuang station did not open until february 15th 2014 (about 7 months later) due to unfinished construction of the station. 3:33 (when line 15 extended west to qinghuadongluxikou) datunlu east station did not open until december 26th 2015 (1 year later) due to unfinished interchange channel. 3:39 (when line 6 extended east to lucheng) tongyunmen (not opened yet, will open in 2022) and beiyunhe east station (opened on december 30th 2018, 4 years later) did not open due to surrounding area problems. 3:44 (when the first phase of 14 east opened) gaojiayuan (not opened yet, will open in 2023) and chaoyang park station (opened on december 31st 2016, 2 years later) did not open due to unfinished construction. 3:50 (when first phase of line 7 opened) shuangjing station did not open until december 28th 2019 (5 years later) due to incomplete station platform and interchange channel. 4:01 (when line 14 east extended to beijing south railway station) pingleyuan (opened on december 30th 2017, 2 years later) and taoranqiao station (not opened yet, opening time unknown) did not open due to unfinished construction of the station. 4:07 (when line 16 opened from xiyuan to beianhe) nongdananlu station did not open until december 30th 2017 (1 year later) due to unfinished construction of the station. 4:39 (when the southern portion of line 8 opened) dahongmen station (not opened yet, will open in 2023) did not open due to unfinished interchange channel. 4:50 (when line 6 extended west to jinanqiao) pingguoyuan station did not open due to incomplete interchange channel. this station is currently closed for renovation and will reopen in 2022. after the station reopens pingguoyuan will be able to transfer line 1, 6 and S1. also there is a transportation hub terminal in construction near pingguoyuan, the hub will open with the reopening of the station and will service the 2022 winter olympics. 5:03 (batong line extends south and line 7 extends east) universal resort station (for both lines after huazhuang) will open when the beijing universal studios opens in may 2021. 5:22 (when line 16 extends south to ganjiakou) suzhoujie did not open due to the platforms on line 10 are too narrow to "plug in" the transfer to line 16, the station needs to be renovated and the platforms needs to be widened. suzhoujie on line 16 is currently planned to open in 2022. erligou station did not open due to surrounding construction around the station. erligou is currently planned to open when the 3rd phase of line 16 opens (from ganjiakou to wanpingcheng)
I moved to Xizhimen (the terminal of line13 )with my mom in 2004 🙈I have experienced the big growth of the 2008 Olympic and have taken all those new lines, but I still feel I am still can't forget the excitement of riding the subway for the first time when there were only 4 lines(Although back then I often confused the subway with the train😅)thank you for making this👍👍
Two reasons: 1) In developed/rich countries it is infinitely more expensive to build infrastructure. 2) In developed/rich countries residents have more tender dispositions and we will generally not accept noise, dust and inconvenience, so construction is severely constricted. I'm from Denmark, and it's not much different from NYC in that respect. However, I have lived in Shanghai for many years, 4 of which were 24/7 construction of two subway stations/lines right below my apartment window. Yes, it sucked, but I got two lines out of it 4 years later.
I still remember 2013, we I first went to middle school, the military museum station was still not opened. The memories are so far away, and the city just become more and more gorgeous, but also more and more unfamiliar.
Really good map. I like that it shows the street map as first layer, so it's very close to reality. You're better than Wikipedia. I subscribed because I don't wanna miss Shanghai, Seoul, Osaka, Budapest, Bucharest and Amsterdam.
but the ecpansions are not always long. for example the lines opened in 2020: Line 16 (middle part, 10km) and Line FS (North extension, 5km). And the Line T1 is a Tram Line - not a metro line
@@lenmediastudio you've also got Tokyu, Odakyu, Keio, Seibu, Tobu, Rinkai, and a few others. It's actually pretty amazing how many different companies operate out here
@@lenmediastudio and, I would like to point out that the boundaries of Tokyo are actually a lot wider than people first assume. You've got the prefecture but a lot of the lines extend out to Omiya or Yokohama or Chiba as well so they're usually included in Tokyo too. And then you've got the shared lines. For example, the Keio line goes underground right before Shinjuku station and then the trains run on the TOEI Shinjuku line after that point.
@@hughmungusbungusfungus4618 That's true. Like any other urban areas, Tokyo also has a greater metropolitan area which is far wider than the city itself.
We have two loop in the inner city, line 2 and line 10. For the suburban area, the task is fullfilled by national train system (the S-XX lines), which is not plotted here
The loops are centered almost with forbidden city. But Beijing north is much more developed probably due to the universities in that area. Correct me if I am wrong since I have not been in Beijing for a long time.
Amazing that Beijing metro only started growing in 2000 and accelerated the network around 2010 and now it is quite comprehensive. Many other cities around the world take forever for just one line.
I rode on Line 13 the weekend it opened (last weekend in September 2002), caught it at Wudaokou and rode it to/from Xizhimen. Used it pretty frequently while I was studying at Beida that autumn.
last year i was at chengdu for 6 months. it is such a beautiful city also people are really big hearted. will visit with my family once this corona mess is over.
I'm glad I witnessed everything since 1996. Back in my childhood, my family can't even afford to take the subway cuz the ticket costs 2 yuan, and with 30 yuan, you can get a monthly pass for buses. It was a luxury back then, and now it's a daily routine. Things changed so fast & so dramatically. I can still remember the first time I rode the subway line 5. Jeez I felt like it was the train from the future, and it was like yesterday. I don't take subways since I've bought cars but magnificent progress has been made in two decades.
i don't think so, i live in Germany for five years. The size of city in Europe and china is not comparable. And i noticed that most Europe cities already has fully covered train system, i don't think your country need to spend more money to do so. What we did just to catch up, we fall behind about a century after all
Beijing born here: i live in DongSishitiao (not too far from dongzhimen, which some of my family members live). The beijing subway system is VERY impressive. I’m pretty sure they said they were going to build line 3 all the way before i was born (2009), so good job beijing😊
Here's a piece of trivia: Beijing never had a metro No. 3. After line 1 and 2's construction, the next in *line* (get it?) was No. 13. There are webpages that indicate No.3 might still be planned for the future as a line parallel with No.1, yet it still hasn't appeared. I hope they connect No.14 soon. Same applies to No.8.
Apart from the fact that it's incredible how quickly they have expanded the metro over the last few years, one thing that strikes me that is very different from London, Paris etc is how many lines _don't_ seem to go into the centre. Is that because it is a more decentralised city and so there isn't such intense pressure on transport to/from one small central hub, or do passengers just accept that they might need to change more often?
Beijing is a bit different mainly due to its old urban design that is what the Chinese call Chess-board city. The city centers are mostly either horizontals or verticals hence it is a bit difficult to design metro lines as it would be more efficient to go diagonally. But it is also true that the city has become more multi-centrered that people do not necessarily have to travel to the city center. But this is unique to Beijing. If you look at Shanghai metro map, it is basically still what you would recognise as people going through city centres.
Democratic bureaucracy really slows down progress and development, everything needs to be agreed upon by multiple parties and approved through countless offices before anything can be put into motion. By the time it's finally a done deal, the plan is already outdated.
In the same time lapse, Mexico City gov has built one single line that later failed and now costs more to operate than the rest of the 11 lines together.
@@jx7457 there's some legal problems with that. The chinese offered a really on a budget price for maintenance of the first line but in exchange they want access to train technology which has french and mexican patents. If they get access to it, it would be a violation of those patents.
I like the fact that Beijing, except for that only one time, just kept adding more and more lines and extentions, while in London or New York, it was a yoyo game of adding-deleting
I think the Beijing subway is the neatest subway in the world. If there are only lines 1, 2, 5, and 10 in Beijing, you will see that their routes are very straight and very neat. Other routes are based on these, extending the Beijing metro network.
Beijing Subway Line 1 (1971) Line 2 (1984) Line 4 (2009) Line 5 (2007) Line 6 (2012) Line 7 (2014) Line 8N (2008) Line 8S (2018) Line 9 (2011) Line 10 (2008) Line 13 (2002) Line 14E (2014) Line 14W (2013) Line 15 (2010) Line 16 (2016) Metro S S1 Line (2017) Metro Yizhuang T Yizhuang T1 (2020) Metro Airport Express Capital Airport Express (2008) Daxing Airport Express (2017) Other Metro Lines Ba Tong Line (2003) Changping Line (2010) Daxing Line (2010) Fangshan Line (2010) Yizhuang Line (2010) Xijiao Line (2017) Yafang Line (2017)
Loved watching the Beijing lines. Was so happy to see what it was like when I visited in late 2012. Try doing Seoul's subway system. They have so many plans for the future!
Very very nice!! Could you make a timeline of the tram & light rail network of cologne? You can start in the year 1968 because this was the year when Cologne started to rebuild the tram lines to Real Light rail lines. Today only 3 tram links (links floor trains) left the rest are light rail lines (high floor trains).
Note the southern terminus of Yizhuang T1 line ‘BenChiNan’ is the translate of ‘Benz South’ which represents the southern entrance to the Mercedes factory of Beijing
I love your channel!! :) Please, if you have a short amount of time, could you maybe do a video on Prague subway? :) We don't have that much but I would love to see the short evolution! :) (the video will have like 20 seconds lol)
Near-term plan：
2021: Capital Airport Express extend to Beixinqiao 2km
Line 8 North-south connection 4km
Line 11 (Winter Olympics branch line ) 4km
Line 14 East-West connection 6km
Line 17 Phase One 17km
Line 19 Phase One 16km
S1 Line Jin'anqiao~Pingguoyuan 1.2km
2022: Line 12 26km
Line 16 Southern section 18km
Line 17 Northern section 26km
Daxing Airport Express extend to Lize Business District 3km
Changping Line Phase Two 9km
Line 1 Fushouling reopen 1.7km
This is just unbelievable.... in 2 years. And meanwhile in Berlin 3 new stations opened in 2020 (should have been opened in 2017) and it seems to be such a big deal. 😂😭😭
The New York City East Side Access tunnel is 2 miles long, 15 years in construction and has cost more than $10 billion so far
@@andy.8444 No, that's mostly are postponed extensions from 2020 to 2021~2024+. The most ridiculous are line 3........ We still dont have a line 3, which scheduled to open in 2020 but only eastern part will be constructed and postponed to 2023. Line 3 was originally planed back in 1950s....
@@andy.8444 and they won't build anymore in the near future due to the study published about the high carbon footprint of building metro systems..
@@andy.8444 Sad to say but comparing to the new airport, subway construction delay is nothing :)
It will be cool if you add a kilometer counter of all the metro
@@PabloMartinez-do9uw That depends on how you define subway and metro, Beijing all city railway 700km, and within about 500km is underground. In Tokyo, Toei+Metro 400km, mostly underground, JR and other railway companies is much longer that that, but mostly on ground. So Beijing has as same size underground as Tokyo, but much much shorter in city railway. Tokyo railway system is more than 3000km long.
@@PabloMartinez-do9uw And using population of Shinjuku, Ikebukuro, Shibuya 3 stations combined is more than 10m per day, that’s larger than entire Beijing metro.
@@chonglangtv8923 yeah but in 1991 beijing just got a short metro line.Compare with Japan,the speed of construction is very fast.The future is very clear that in some day, Beijing will develop a better metro network.
@@PabloMartinez-do9uw In China most (more than 95%) railway system is only used for long distance(more than 100Km) trip ,in the past several years Beijing began to built its city railway system but only in the suburb area.In Japan railway system can used for short or long distance trip.Although they called railway system but they are two different things.
This is quickly becoming one of my favorite channels.
Seriously, I go back to Beijing, China every couple of years to visit and there is always a new railway or metro line.
But some deep stations have no escalators am I roight? Just blows my mind...guess Im just a spoiled metro user
@@ВацлавЗапольский I don't think so. All the stations in Beijing I've been to have escalators.
@@ВацлавЗапольский That's unlikely. Can you give any evidence for your statement?
I am a resident of a second-tier city (Wuhan), here every subway station has elevators.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuhan_Metro
The subway stations in the capital should be better than the ones here.
@@shanqi9843 Welp, I thought so cuz I saw traval blogs (not the greatest source of info Ik) and guys there were going down the ladder and there seem to be no other way of going down so I just got kinda spooked (cuz I was going to study in China by myself actually) that every morning I'll have to walk these endless ladders to get where I want. But tbh it will be such a reliase if it's not true (I'm not fat or smth) maybe I even provide a link ruclips.net/video/0cFdzhQyyQU/видео.html&ab_channel=varlamov 1:07 it's in russian but I guess you'll see what u need
Take down China Community Party
Beijing has a grid-like urban structure, and the subway system is built along this grid, so it looks very beautiful.
Because of the urban layout of ancient Peking City.
LOL when I watched your other videos, someone was saying how NYC and London metro are super complicated and it made me think that the newer built Chinese metros must be way simpler. Long story short, I ended up studying the Beijing metro for a good hour. Now you’re making a video about its extensions. Nice coincidence!
Hong Kong MTR is the worlds best and the model for the vast majority of Chinese systems.
@@PatheticTV sorry but..It's NO and NO. The Hongkongese MTR itself is a replica of the Japanese JR system and it is Not the model for most of the CHinese systems. The hongkonese follows a textbook TOD model with real estate developments expend following the newly opened metro lines - as a result you can expect transportation-commerce-residential super complex at each station and the investment for the metro will be recovered from the property development. It's not the model for China at all if you could do some little research.
@@BadassLapin It's clearly not a replica of the japanese system. It may have some inspiration there and there but overall it's a very different.
@@PatheticTV The way Hong Kong street are organized, population density is very different from most Chinese cities. Chinese cities mostly are not more spreaded with lower population density. Also many cities haave many sub-centers and multiple train stations. Hong Kong style is fewer lines but more capacity per train. Most Chinese cities need variety of combinations to serve not jus core city but vast suburbs and satellite towns.
@@flx4305 It's a pretty clear copy of JR's handbook though, he's right. Both companies are basically an intricate system of shopping centres and residential skyscrapers with train lines attached, and happen to be the only profitable systems in the world because of it.
I remember when I was a kid I was used to the fact that we only had 2 lines. My home was just 5min walk from the Yuquanlu station, built in the 70s. Then one day suddenly a “Line 13” came from nowhere, and in 5 years we had so many more lines. Pity that I have not taken all of them.
Where do you live now?
相信我.在北京住了十年，我很厌恶挤地铁的日子
I took Line 1 once or twice back in the days when there were only 2 lines. It was exciting to a little kid. They have "revamped" some of the old Line 1 and 2 stations by adding rail guards (sliding doors) and connection tunnels to other lines, but I'm glad the aesthetics of those much-older stations haven't changed too much.
@@OkimeOlvx I study in the US
@@joeyinfinite8071 我一点都不厌恶，主要还是看活得有个没有盼头。我小时候挤地铁上下学肯定还是比较无忧无虑的，虽然书包重得要命而且前半个小时都特别挤，但是那时候真不累。
Meanwhile the USA adds 1 bus stop sign in 10 years after spending millions of dollars planning it.
Dad - Son, what did you do for living?
Son - I am a Wumao
Dad - What's that?
Son - It's hard to define.
@@Sammy58328 ameriFat mad his government is a piece of garbage
@@MrYjgh so he joined the "storm trooper "
@@Sammy58328 You can keep calling names but that won't change the truth.
That's America for yo Ass
This amount of construction is unbelievable in such a short time! Please do more chinese cities like Shanghai or Guangzhou!
Chengdu city you may not heard before,opened first metro line 1 in 2010,now it has 12 lines and over 500km
Yesss Chengdu please
Guangzhou is super slow hahahaha (Looking at you, Line 8 North Extension)
八北上个月就开通了鸭
@@藍皋 我是指8北修的慢
Ok that was amazing, love how they just invested into public transport to prepare for the 2008 olympics, and than continued further expanding existing lines and joining them with new or old lines, making the city and its people more connected. Would be interested to see the effect it has had in air pollution improvements aswell, since it gives people an alternaltive.
Also interesting to see the lines follow the road, not sure how deep it is. but will make rescue efforts simpler.
Unfortunately, China's people purchased so many cars and the economy has grown so much that air pollution is pretty bad. It's more than offset the effect of the subway, but it's slowly getting better as the government cleans up the grid.
@@LexLExistor That and the government has been helping in the push to Electric vehicles instead.
Meanwhile Germany new airport is almost complete..
I remember it's already in service recently, not?
@Yingdong BU Is that true, congratulation to German
What new airport? There’s no major airports that’s under complete construction
@@canadianaviator Berlin airport
@@enzhus it’s not under construction...
Amazing video, right now China already has 44 cities with subway, and the top four metro system are all in China according to the milage: Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, and Chengdu. When I watched your first video about New York, I thought you should do a video for Chinese city like this, then I found you just uploaded this video four hours before, thank you so much for you great effort.
中国发展太快了。大部分西方国家的公共交通停滞不前。
@@andy.8444 也不能这么说，人家就是因为发展的早所以现在一堆烂摊子也不好动手
New York still have longer track because many lines are duel or even four tracks to enable running local express and local trains. Also commuter rails are not included. All Chinese subways are either local or express not both.
In 5 years they build more lines than Buenos Aires in 110 😲
Oye bro, xD que haces aki jaja soy tu suscritor pa
@@Rilasergam si pudiese hacerlo aquí, te diera corazón 😌👏
@@TRDInfo UwU
Así que tu también pasas por aquí eh?
No me lo recuerdes que lloro...
Good work! It comes to my surprise that the metro network expansion in Chinese cities is staggeringly fast. It just happened in a few years.
yes, china is catching up after being super undeveloped for decades.
I hope they won‘t stop building when they reach status of developed countries. Wonder what the subway will look like in 2050..
@@andy.8444 I wish they slow down for the safety of the people. These subways are built very cheaply and have a risk of collapsing
keep living in your imagination
@@redditstop1653 🤣🤣🤣 you must be joking.
The first line of my hometown- Shenyang has been opened since 2010 when I was just 10, and there have been 4 running lines today. By their names Line 1 2 9 and 10, we can see how many lines have been planned to build in this city. Although the city does not rank high in the country, it is actually home to more than 8 million people. We really need more metro lines🥰
等沈阳被列为国家中心城市再说吧！东北需要国家级中心城市，东北需要大发展，沈阳得到这个地位理所当然
You should do an April fools episode on the Glasgow Subway, it would be 5 seconds long XD
EDIT: Hey he actually did it!
Now you spoiled it
It hasn't change at all. Should build 1,at least from airport
Nice
extra notes about stations that did not open with the opening of the line or the line extension:
2:04 (line 15 wangjing west to houshayu)
along this route, wangjing east station did not open until december 31st 2016 (6 years later) due to surrounding area construction problems.
2:55 (when line 8 extended south from beitucheng to guloudajie)
andelibeijie station did not open until december 26th 2015 (3 years later) due to unfinished construction of the station.
3:00 (when the 2nd phase of line 10 opened)
jiaomen east station did not open until may 5th 2013 (6 months later) due to unfinished construction of the station.
3:05 (when line 9 extended north to national library)
military museum station did not open and able to transfer to line 1 until december 21st 2013 (about 1 year and 4 months later) due to unfinished interchange channel.
3:23 (when the western phase of line 14 opened)
qilizhuang station did not open until february 15th 2014 (about 7 months later) due to unfinished construction of the station.
3:33 (when line 15 extended west to qinghuadongluxikou)
datunlu east station did not open until december 26th 2015 (1 year later) due to unfinished interchange channel.
3:39 (when line 6 extended east to lucheng)
tongyunmen (not opened yet, will open in 2022) and beiyunhe east station (opened on december 30th 2018, 4 years later) did not open due to surrounding area problems.
3:44 (when the first phase of 14 east opened)
gaojiayuan (not opened yet, will open in 2023) and chaoyang park station (opened on december 31st 2016, 2 years later) did not open due to unfinished construction.
3:50 (when first phase of line 7 opened)
shuangjing station did not open until december 28th 2019 (5 years later) due to incomplete station platform and interchange channel.
4:01 (when line 14 east extended to beijing south railway station)
pingleyuan (opened on december 30th 2017, 2 years later) and taoranqiao station (not opened yet, opening time unknown) did not open due to unfinished construction of the station.
4:07 (when line 16 opened from xiyuan to beianhe)
nongdananlu station did not open until december 30th 2017 (1 year later) due to unfinished construction of the station.
4:39 (when the southern portion of line 8 opened)
dahongmen station (not opened yet, will open in 2023) did not open due to unfinished interchange channel.
4:50 (when line 6 extended west to jinanqiao)
pingguoyuan station did not open due to incomplete interchange channel. this station is currently closed for renovation and will reopen in 2022. after the station reopens pingguoyuan will be able to transfer line 1, 6 and S1. also there is a transportation hub terminal in construction near pingguoyuan, the hub will open with the reopening of the station and will service the 2022 winter olympics.
5:03 (batong line extends south and line 7 extends east)
universal resort station (for both lines after huazhuang) will open when the beijing universal studios opens in may 2021.
5:22 (when line 16 extends south to ganjiakou)
suzhoujie did not open due to the platforms on line 10 are too narrow to "plug in" the transfer to line 16, the station needs to be renovated and the platforms needs to be widened. suzhoujie on line 16 is currently planned to open in 2022.
erligou station did not open due to surrounding construction around the station. erligou is currently planned to open when the 3rd phase of line 16 opens (from ganjiakou to wanpingcheng)
qinghua donglu xikou station is not a transfer for line 13 as well
I moved to Xizhimen (the terminal of line13 )with my mom in 2004 🙈I have experienced the big growth of the 2008 Olympic and have taken all those new lines, but I still feel I am still can't forget the excitement of riding the subway for the first time when there were only 4 lines(Although back then I often confused the subway with the train😅)thank you for making this👍👍
Meanwhile in NYC: *Takes forever to build the second avenue subway*
@United Shame of America Yeah it sucks :(
Two reasons: 1) In developed/rich countries it is infinitely more expensive to build infrastructure. 2) In developed/rich countries residents have more tender dispositions and we will generally not accept noise, dust and inconvenience, so construction is severely constricted.
I'm from Denmark, and it's not much different from NYC in that respect. However, I have lived in Shanghai for many years, 4 of which were 24/7 construction of two subway stations/lines right below my apartment window. Yes, it sucked, but I got two lines out of it 4 years later.
Can US workers accept $500-$800 USD for a month to build or renew the metro?
Chinese workers are more than happy to take that kind of money
Indonesia: haha amateur, in indonesia we just have 1 subway line
@@pjacobsen1000 Look,I get it.But it shouln't take 50 years go build just 3 measley stations.
I still remember 2013, we I first went to middle school, the military museum station was still not opened. The memories are so far away, and the city just become more and more gorgeous, but also more and more unfamiliar.
说得漂亮，16年离开北京了，越来越排外了
Everytime a line connected to another line or closed a loop - I felt that 😩
It’s satisfying to me
Visited and rode those subway lines back in 07 three times and once in 13. Unbelievable how fast they get the job done. Thanks for the vid!
Really good map. I like that it shows the street map as first layer, so it's very close to reality. You're better than Wikipedia. I subscribed because I don't wanna miss Shanghai, Seoul, Osaka, Budapest, Bucharest and Amsterdam.
I love that when there's only line 1 and line 2, then they skipped line 3-12 and went straight to line 13
Can’t wait for Kuala Lumpur, Taipei and Singapore lines soon!!! 🤤☺️☺️☺️🙏 This channel has lots of potential!
They got MULTIPLE expansions in EVERY SINGLE YEAR!! It takes us multiple years to complete a single line here!
but the ecpansions are not always long. for example the lines opened in 2020: Line 16 (middle part, 10km) and Line FS (North extension, 5km). And the Line T1 is a Tram Line - not a metro line
That’s a lot of openings and extensions in December. I guess they like to break out the Christmas cheer by extending and opening a new metro line
In fact, a lot of openings is on December 31st, which is the New Year's Eve. This usually used to celebrate the new year.
@@legendbao3027 Impeccable timing. I wonder how far in advance it’s done, and then the metro officials are like, Welp, ain’t New Years
Beautifully made video. Line 1 was my childhood
When I was a child I grew up in Beijing riding Line 13 almost every day
When I was a child growing up in Beijing, I always wondered when can we have more than two lines. LOL
line 13 is literal BEST it's fully above ground so you can ride see view of city's north
Really love my city... So interesting how late line 6 came in, I can't imagine the city without it.
Other Great systems to show might be Paris, Moscow, Berlin, Madrid, Tokyo, and although these are smaller: Milan and Montreal. Cool vid!
very cool love your work
Thank you!
@@MetroLiner no problem man
Do Tokyo next. Their metro system is huge and just keeps expanding
Tokyo has more than one company running the metro system (Tokyo Metro & Toei Subway), so that would be interesting to see.
@@lenmediastudio you've also got Tokyu, Odakyu, Keio, Seibu, Tobu, Rinkai, and a few others. It's actually pretty amazing how many different companies operate out here
@@lenmediastudio and, I would like to point out that the boundaries of Tokyo are actually a lot wider than people first assume. You've got the prefecture but a lot of the lines extend out to Omiya or Yokohama or Chiba as well so they're usually included in Tokyo too. And then you've got the shared lines. For example, the Keio line goes underground right before Shinjuku station and then the trains run on the TOEI Shinjuku line after that point.
@@hughmungusbungusfungus4618 That's true. Like any other urban areas, Tokyo also has a greater metropolitan area which is far wider than the city itself.
Take down China government
You know Dec. 29 will always be a best day to make a video about Beijing Subway, because most likely it will have a shelf life of almost a whole year.
As a Beijinger I don't even notice the update cuz,everything happens so fast😂
Beijinger..., that's a cool name....
Beijinger... emm....
Thank you for all of the awsome
videos you have made so far.
Keep it up! 👍👍
I want to see Guangzhou or Hong Kong subways in the future
Great video! Can’t wait for the next one
They need to have a loop system too, that forms ring lines radiating outwards towards the suburbs which they have lines already going to linearly.
We have two loop in the inner city, line 2 and line 10. For the suburban area, the task is fullfilled by national train system (the S-XX lines), which is not plotted here
There’s multiple orbital lines. Two complete rings and many arcs.
The loops are centered almost with forbidden city. But Beijing north is much more developed probably due to the universities in that area. Correct me if I am wrong since I have not been in Beijing for a long time.
the shapes of Beijing Metro is gridlike, with two circular lines for the interior and exterior of the city. so cool and it looks very efficient.
As the subway system in Beijing gradually improves, it is really convenient and cheap to access to anywhere. Though it is always crowded.
Amazing that Beijing metro only started growing in 2000 and accelerated the network around 2010 and now it is quite comprehensive. Many other cities around the world take forever for just one line.
I rode on Line 13 the weekend it opened (last weekend in September 2002), caught it at Wudaokou and rode it to/from Xizhimen. Used it pretty frequently while I was studying at Beida that autumn.
it was more crowded then
Line 1 then 2 then 13???
Whenever I felt bored and wanted to do a metro : Super lazy in the start but then literally create 10 lines in 10 minutes
Chengdu! It just added 5 lines about 160km into service on December 18, 2020.
last year i was at chengdu for 6 months.
it is such a beautiful city also people are really big hearted.
will visit with my family once this corona mess is over.
@@Frog577 welcome:)
More than 500km ！just 10 years !amazing
Amazing work! Thank you! Good luck for Tokyo, looking forward 😊
2007年からの路線開通・延伸が凄いですね
北京の軌道交通は日本の東京ほど便利しないと思います。私たち努力しなければならぬ
I'm glad I witnessed everything since 1996. Back in my childhood, my family can't even afford to take the subway cuz the ticket costs 2 yuan, and with 30 yuan, you can get a monthly pass for buses. It was a luxury back then, and now it's a daily routine. Things changed so fast & so dramatically. I can still remember the first time I rode the subway line 5. Jeez I felt like it was the train from the future, and it was like yesterday. I don't take subways since I've bought cars but magnificent progress has been made in two decades.
That’s crazy how fast they build underground and train systems in China ! We should take example in Europe 🤓
i don't think so, i live in Germany for five years. The size of city in Europe and china is not comparable. And i noticed that most Europe cities already has fully covered train system, i don't think your country need to spend more money to do so. What we did just to catch up, we fall behind about a century after all
These are so cool! Please keep making these videos!!!
Thank you! Will do!
Great work. For future videos it will be nice to have the KM of each new section or line plus the cumulative KM. Just a suggestion.
Beijing born here: i live in DongSishitiao (not too far from dongzhimen, which some of my family members live). The beijing subway system is VERY impressive. I’m pretty sure they said they were going to build line 3 all the way before i was born (2009), so good job beijing😊
北京に行ったことがあります。とても美しい都市です
Yes you uploaded again, I’m always looking forward to your videos
Here's a piece of trivia: Beijing never had a metro No. 3. After line 1 and 2's construction, the next in *line* (get it?) was No. 13. There are webpages that indicate No.3 might still be planned for the future as a line parallel with No.1, yet it still hasn't appeared.
I hope they connect No.14 soon. Same applies to No.8.
北京地铁3号线正在修建中，2023年开通
Under construction, will open in 2023
Line 3 will open in 2023 running from Dongsishitiao to Caogezhuang North
Now in 2024, don't see Line 3 yet (probably will open later this year)
When I first tour to Beijing at 2014, I feel most of my day are actually spent underground in those subways LOL.
Beijing: opens new metro line every year.
Warsaw: hold my beer
You need to know that there are more than 10 Chinese cities opening new line every year :)
you means Warsaw open new line every year also?
@@hudrobin1671 It means that Warsaw built one line for 40 years. Now we still have one (and a half of second line).
@@jiajunxiao6964 60 cities, not 10 cities
@@wix5965 40 Citys.
It's crazy that the third line is called "Line 13". Beijing Metro already had plans for more than 13 lines at that time.
They started mass building after the olympics.
Which coincided with the bailout fund by which so many Wall Street investment funds were indirectly saved from certain collapse.
這是一種新的吸睛方式，一條條綫畵出來，看得時候莫名地減壓，這種視頻一定會火！
确实，哈哈
Apart from the fact that it's incredible how quickly they have expanded the metro over the last few years, one thing that strikes me that is very different from London, Paris etc is how many lines _don't_ seem to go into the centre. Is that because it is a more decentralised city and so there isn't such intense pressure on transport to/from one small central hub, or do passengers just accept that they might need to change more often?
Beijing is a bit different mainly due to its old urban design that is what the Chinese call Chess-board city. The city centers are mostly either horizontals or verticals hence it is a bit difficult to design metro lines as it would be more efficient to go diagonally. But it is also true that the city has become more multi-centrered that people do not necessarily have to travel to the city center. But this is unique to Beijing. If you look at Shanghai metro map, it is basically still what you would recognise as people going through city centres.
The city center is occupied by the gigantic Forbidden City, and government simply doesn't allow subways go under it.
Tokyo metro could be simple to a japanese, But for foreigners, Its a mess.
I'm not a metro user,but in Tokyo I get used with it very quickly.I find it really easy to use and of course like it.
You never met new york city then.
For Chinese who can read a little bit Japanese chinese characters, it shouldn’t be that much a problem
Not only tokyo metro, Theres JR east, Tokyu, Keisei, Tobu, Keio and oedo line
@@MAG320 you haven’t met Tokyo then
Another fantastic and interesting video, can your next video be on the Paris Metro?
Love your videos! Please do Chicago or Berlin next!
I'd like to help make history on the Seoul subway.
I made a map of the Seoul subway station and I want to help you with the production
ㄷㄷ 찐이다
근데 왜 인증마크 없어여?
에바노;;
I am glad I found your channel. Love what you are doing.
Lol how fast they are. Meanwhile here in Germany we're waiting since 1980 for an extension of the U7 in Frankfurt 😂
Democratic bureaucracy really slows down progress and development, everything needs to be agreed upon by multiple parties and approved through countless offices before anything can be put into motion. By the time it's finally a done deal, the plan is already outdated.
Great! Please do Moscow, Berlin and Paris next!
Can you make the following cities too?
Paris Moscow Seoul Tokyo Berlin (cities with many metro lines
Ups!!! You forgot about MADRID...
Omg this is amazing, well done
2:22 亦庄线，should be "Yizhuang Line"
In the same time lapse, Mexico City gov has built one single line that later failed and now costs more to operate than the rest of the 11 lines together.
Chinese constructors helping now🤟
@@jx7457 there's some legal problems with that. The chinese offered a really on a budget price for maintenance of the first line but in exchange they want access to train technology which has french and mexican patents. If they get access to it, it would be a violation of those patents.
My city took 14 years to make 7 station line across the city and these guys made a 350 station metro network in the meantime.......
At least your city made it. In many cities, two decades everything is still on paper.
I like the fact that Beijing, except for that only one time, just kept adding more and more lines and extentions, while in London or New York, it was a yoyo game of adding-deleting
It must be because it's all relatively modern but New York and London built since the 1800s and decommissioned old lines.
@@flare2000x true , true
Beijing- The city with most straight metro lines !
I think the Beijing subway is the neatest subway in the world. If there are only lines 1, 2, 5, and 10 in Beijing, you will see that their routes are very straight and very neat. Other routes are based on these, extending the Beijing metro network.
your videos are awesome!! please make more
Beijing Subway
Line 1 (1971)
Line 2 (1984)
Line 4 (2009)
Line 5 (2007)
Line 6 (2012)
Line 7 (2014)
Line 8N (2008)
Line 8S (2018)
Line 9 (2011)
Line 10 (2008)
Line 13 (2002)
Line 14E (2014)
Line 14W (2013)
Line 15 (2010)
Line 16 (2016)
Metro S
S1 Line (2017)
Metro Yizhuang T
Yizhuang T1 (2020)
Metro Airport Express
Capital Airport Express (2008)
Daxing Airport Express (2017)
Other Metro Lines
Ba Tong Line (2003)
Changping Line (2010)
Daxing Line (2010)
Fangshan Line (2010)
Yizhuang Line (2010)
Xijiao Line (2017)
Yafang Line (2017)
what software to make it ?
We need to do Paris this time! No rush tho!
Wow. You made me happy, when I see the little dot next to the channel logo. :)
I would like Tokyo Metro too!
From the Japanese who translated Google.
the greatest metro in the world👍
yes
东京都的电车系统真的恐怖，里程快3000公里了，好像第二名都没过1000公里
Yay you've uploaded again!
Moscow metro please!! 🥺🥺
Love these. Do Los Angeles next!
Do one for Shanghai^^
Loved watching the Beijing lines. Was so happy to see what it was like when I visited in late 2012. Try doing Seoul's subway system. They have so many plans for the future!
从2013年7月底来到北京，开始打拼 到现在，浑然不知，地铁已经发展到如此地步。身在其中～
I love your videos! Please do cities like Tokyo, Seoul or Singapore!
2021: Line 1 re-extends back to Fushouling after 14 years
fushouling is currently renovating and plans to open when pingguoyuan reopens
@@alanakimitsu1176 should wait till 2022
Absolutely great and unique! Lots of squares
Go Moscow
It is better to do a video about the Moscow metro in a year, because several new lines are expected to open this year.
China is working fast and expanding their railways and transit networks really well.
Tokyo,Moscow,Seoul,Istanbul
Constantnople is Byzantine, Trapezound & Smirna is Greece, Northern Cyprus is Cyprus, Ararat, Kars and Van are Armenia, South Anatolia is Kurdistan
Very very nice!!
Could you make a timeline of the tram & light rail network of cologne? You can start in the year 1968 because this was the year when Cologne started to rebuild the tram lines to Real Light rail lines.
Today only 3 tram links (links floor trains) left the rest are light rail lines (high floor trains).
I would want to see the same with Tokyo
Note the southern terminus of Yizhuang T1 line ‘BenChiNan’ is the translate of ‘Benz South’ which represents the southern entrance to the Mercedes factory of Beijing
Please do one for Delhi Metro🇮🇳.
I love your channel!! :)
Please, if you have a short amount of time, could you maybe do a video on Prague subway? :) We don't have that much but I would love to see the short evolution! :) (the video will have like 20 seconds lol)
São Paulo Subway evolution, please
Sii
It would be only 30 seconds because Sao Paulo only had 5 lines
When i was there, the fare was only ¥2 per trip(cheaper with local fare card), and can get you to any station you wanted.