Shanghai metro operators will put 70 more trains into service this year to shorten intervals and extend service hours, Shanghai Morning Post reported today.

By now you have probably heard about that huge metro accident in Shanghai, China. Over two hundred people were injured yesterday when one subway train slammed into the rear of another metro car. The ...

Shanghai's transit system is already admired as a model in China, with its expanding metro map, the maglev super-express train to the Pudong airport, and high ridership in the bus network.

The air-conditioned metro has been a refuge this summer for Shanghai residents seeking relief from record-breaking heat; on Aug. 7, the city was 105.4 degrees, the hottest day in 140 years.

Fares on Shanghai's subway are three to four renminbi, or 45 to 60 cents, for all but the longest journeys. To the extent that wages in the Chinese city are about a sixth that of New York, they ...