Shanghai Public Transportation

Ever notice the golden columns on the Jing'an Temple subway station platform? As the number of Shanghai subway stations shot up over the past few years, station engineers strived to include unique features in each station's (re-)design. Next time you pass through the station, take a second to appreciate Jing'an Temple's unique, gold-colored columns and temple-themed exits.

Line 1 gets all the freaks:

(Via wintbros.)

二号线又称“爱”号线，在这一穿越上海几大CBD（中心商务区）的线路上，有多少可以让你和爱人越逛越浪漫的地方？今天为你搜罗。

Line 2, also known as the "Line of Love", passes through several of Shanghai's larger CBDs [which are full of young, eligible white-collars]. What spots along the Line are good for falling madly and deeply in love? Today, we collect them here for you:

The original post has more details, but here is is the barebones list:

Zhangjiang High-Tech Park

House of Flour: 535 Bibo Rd, Shanghai Legend 1F-105, Pudong

University of Chinese Traditional Medicine Library: 1200 Cailun Road, Pudong

Century Park

Music Box Museum: 425 Diangxiang Rd, Oriental Arts Center 4F (RMB 50)

Century Avenue

Jiangxia Pool Hall: 188 Weifang Rd, Pudong

Dongchang Rd

Dongchang Road Ferry Station: Dongchang Rd and S Pudong Rd

Lujiazui

Fengmei Huachuan Japanese Purikura: Super Brand Mall 621, Pudong

Banking Museum: 9 Pudong Avenue, Century Financial Tower 7F

East Nanjing Road

First Time I Saw You" Noodle House: M Jiangxi Rd and E Nanjing Rd

China Great Theatre：704 Niuzhuang Rd, Huangpu

Tom's World at Baodaxiang: 673 E Nanjing Rd, Baodaxiang Children's Department Store B1

People's Square

Yifeng Model Shop: 457-459 W Nanjing Rd, Huangpu

West Nanjing Road

gz Coffee Shop: 1025 W Nanjing Rd, No 162

Scream and Shout Labyrinth of Darkness: 2-68 W Nanjing Rd, New World Mall 10F

Jing'an Temple

Poplar Kids Republic Bookstore: 262 Yuyuan Rd

Mr. Coffee: 121 Urumqi Rd

Jiangsu Road

WELOVE Hotel: 33 Wanghangdu Rd 4F

Zhongshan Park

Yidong Park Museum of Art: 780 Changning Rd, Gate 3 in Zhongshan Park

Royal Garden Restaurant: 780 Changning Rd, Zhongshan Park

Loushanguan Road

Hongqiao Greenbelt Tearoom: 2238 W Yan'an Road, Changning

 
[Editor's note: Jodi and I held our wedding at the Royal Garden in Zhongshan Park.]

A metro map from Shanghai 2020, click for full-size:

My favorite is purple Line 14, the Outer Loop Line.

Jonna lets loose on a nasty habit:

But I am more or less amazed of the fact that so many people take their nail-clipping to a public place over here? It amazes, yet confuses me, that they carry around their own nail clipper every day, and then at the most crowded place of the day, like the Shanghai metro, they decide to take it out and give their nails a good trim. Why, oh dear god, WHY?!

Another weirdo makes an appearance on the Shanghai subway:

(Via stinson on Twitter.)

A long-term expat in his 50s had a heart attack coming out of the Science and Technology Museum metro station yesterday, and passing pedestrians rushed to help him out. Three young men performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation while a woman dialed 120 to seek help. When the ambulance arrived, another young man rode in the ambulance with the victim's wife and child to help interpret for the doctors on board. Unfortunately, all efforts to help the man failed. http://why.eastday.com/q/20081210/u1a510644.html

Following complaints from passengers that the doors on Line 1 and 9 subway trains are being closed too fast, the Metro company has released guidelines to train conductors to leave the doors open for at least 50 seconds at major stations and 20 seconds at minor stations. The previous policy left the time at the conductors discretion, leading passengers to rush the doors in an effort to not get left out. http://news.sina.com.cn/c/2008-12-10/021814854582s.shtml

Shanghai residents continue to debate whether or not giving up a seat to the elderly on the subway is an absolute good. The main players in the debate are young office workers like Miss Ren, who says: “我平时也会主动让座的。可这次我真的很累，而那个老太也不是很老，身体看上去也不错。我不让座有错吗？” ("I normally give up my seat without being asked. But this time I was really tired, and the old woman wasn't that old; actually she looked pretty healthy too. Is it wrong to not give up my seat?"). http://news.sohu.com/20081209/n261106230.shtml

Photo by YiPing@SuZhou on Flickr.