First subway to cross Yangtze opens

The nation's first subway to cross the Yangtze River started running in Wuhan, the capital of Central China's Hubei province, at 10 am on Friday.

Trains take only three minutes to run under the country's longest waterway. They have an average speed of 36 km per hour, with 26 trains scheduled to run every six minutes.

Wuhan subway's Line 2, which links the city's two major downtown areas - Wuchang and Hankou - spans 27.73 km and has 21 stations. It takes about 50 minutes for trains to travel the line.

The line is expected to move 500,000 passengers a day, half of the city's cross-Yangtze traffic flow, and...

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