Yellow line (Kaohsiung MRT)

Kaohsiung Metropolitan Line
(The Yellow Line)
 Yellow 
The Yellow Line Route Map (Kaohsiung MRT)
Overview
Native name 高雄捷運都會線（黃線）
Type Medium-capacity rail transport system
System Kaohsiung MRT system
Status Under review
Locale Kaohsiung City,  Republic of China (Taiwan)
Termini Kaohsiung Cruise Terminal Station & Cianjhen Senior High School Station
Dìbù (坔埔)
Stations 21
Operation
Commenced 2020 (2020) (Planned)
Operator(s) Kaohsiung Rapid Transit Corporation
Character Underground, elevated
Depot(s) Niaosong depot
Technical
Track gauge Standard gauge

Yellow line, also called Kaohsiung Metropolitan line , is a planned medium capacity, rapid transit line on the Kaohsiung Mass Rapid Transit, currently done planning and under project review process. It's projected to begin commencement building work in 2020.[1]

History

The initial plan of the yellow line was first seen in 2002 when the whole MRT construction plan for Kaohsiung was being re-sketched.[2]

By the spring of 2015, the director Wu Yi-Long (吳義隆) of MRT Construction Bureau of Kaohsiung City Government addressed to the local parliament that the yellow line of light rail transit was undergoing feasibility assessment whose route was likely a combination of old-drafted yellow line and Brown Line, which was hoped to be the second circular public transportation line across Kaohsiung City preceded by the first circular line in Kaohsiung and the whole nation. [3][4]

On 14 February 2017, four members of parliament of Democratic Progressive Party from Kaohsiung, namely Liu Shih-Fung (zh:劉世芳), Lee Kun-Zher (zh:李昆澤)、Lai Rei-Long (zh:賴瑞隆)、 and Hsu Jih-Jeih (zh:許智傑) had held a joint press conference unveiling the new draft of the route for the yellow line and asked the executive yuan to comprise this plan into The Forward-looking project, whose bid was latter agreed and approved by the yuan to be included in on March 23. [5]。

On March 27, few days after the approval of the yuan, local MRT bureau submitted the feasibility study of the yellow line to the authorities concerned of the central government. In the study, the line was planned to be an underground system whose route basically combines planned Brown Line, Fongshan Line, and Wujia section of the Green Line.

Stations

The following graph is the route map for the drafted yellow line only, except other intersecting lines like Green Line and Silver Line.

According to the plan, the yellow line has two start points from Cruise Terminal and MRT Cianjhen Senior High School Station respectively and an end point at Dipu township, Niaosong District, Kaohsiung City. The part begins from Y1 to Y13 is also called Jiangong-Minzu (建工民族) Line while the section between Y1 and Y21 is called Chenching-Wujia (澄清五甲) Line.

Please note that the Station names and locations were just tentatively planned.

Proposed station names and their locations
Route Number Planned name Intersection Location
Jiangong-Minzu Line C9/Y13 Cruise Terminal █ Circular Line ：C8 Kaohsiung Exhibition Center、C9 Cruise Terminal Station Qianzhen District
R8/Y12 Sanduo Shopping District █ Red Line Qianzhen District
Lingya District
Y11 Guotianzih Lingya District
O6/Y10 Sinyi Elementary School █ Orange Line
█ Green Line		 Xinxing District
Y09 Minzu TRA Pingtung Line： Minzu
█ Green Line		 Sanmin District
Y08 Kaohsiung Medical University █ Green Line
→connect █ Green Line bound for THSR Zuoying Station
C28/Y07 Wanzihnei █ Circular District Sanmin District
Y06 National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences
Y05 Dahua █ Silver Line Niaosong District
Chengching-Wujia Line R5/Y21 Cianjhen Senior High School █ Red Line Qianzhen District
Y20 Longcheng Temple Fengshan District
Y19 Wujia
Y18 Cilaoye █ Fongshang-Banguan Line
Y17 Sinjia
→connect █ Fongshan-Benguan Line bound for Liznei
O10/Y16 Weiwuying █ Orange Line Lingya District
Fengshan District
Y15 Chenyi TRA Pingtung Line： Chenyi
█ Fongshan-Benguan Line		 Sanmin District
Y14 Wenshan █ Fongshan-Benguan Line
Niaosong Section Y04 Chengcing Lake █ Fongshan-Benguan Line Sanmin District
Niaosong District
Y03 Chang Gung Memorial Hospital █ Fongshan-Benguan Line Niaosong District
Y02 Chengcing Lake Baseball Stadium █ Fongshan-Benguan Line
Y01 Langpu █ Fongshan-Benguan Line

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Kaohsiung plans to build third MRT line within 8 years - Economics - CNA ENGLISH NEWS". FOCUS TAIWAN. 21 April 2017. Retrieved 21 July 2017.
  2. ↑ 高雄市政府捷運工程局—長期路網規劃—黃線
  3. ↑ "雙軌雙環 串起高雄經濟脈絡". 中時電子報. 2015-03-02. Retrieved 2015-04-24.
  4. ↑ 高雄市議會 (2015-04-20). "第2屆第1次定期大會捷運工程局業務報告" (ppt). Retrieved 2015-04-24.
  5. ↑ "砸千億！高捷新增黃線　紅線延伸到路竹". 蘋果即時新聞. 2017-03-23. Retrieved 2017-03-23.
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