Shanghai planning Pudong-Hongqiao high-speed airport rail connection
(Photo by Lars Plougmann via Shanghaiist)
Presently, getting between Pudong and Hongqiao is a time-consuming undertaking regardless of whether you take a taxi, bus, or train.
However, that will soon change (well, in several years) when the city opens a direct airport-to-airport rail corridor. Shanghai is currently in the process of planning a high-speed express railway line that would connect the two airports, with journeys taking under 40 minutes. (Shanghaiist)
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Shanghai North Railway Station, 1920
From the great Virtual Shanghai project.
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A look inside the lives of China's high-speed rail workers
Thanks to Youth Times (年青时报) photographer Wang Xinke, one part of this process, the Shanghai-Hangzhou high-speed rail link completed in October of 2010, has been recorded for posterity. (Shanghaiist)
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Beijing-Shanghai fast rail link to open in June
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