Red River Delta Metro

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Owner	United Trenchways
Area served	Red River Delta
Transit type	Rapid transit

Formally named Barleigh-Newharlow Urban Transit System, the Red River Delta Metro (Namese Barleysz-Nehzarelo Metrya) is a rapid transit system serving the area colloquially known as the Red River Delta, including the cities of Barleigh, Newharlow, Gorgye and Huye, in western Riamo. Opened in 1948 with one 9-kilometre line and 6 stations, it was the first underground railway system in northern Riamo. As of 2023, the Red River Delta Metro has XXX unique stations across XXX lines, with a total route length of XXX km, making it the largest in western Riamo by route lenght.

Modern day

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The economic and population boom of the Nam River Delta led to a surge in traffic that was beginning to overwhelm the transportation system by the end of the 1980s. The transition to democracy led works paralized until 1980, when the Riamese Transit Masterplan was approved lead by Queen Diana I, which prompted the approval of multiple city masterplans across the following year. By 1983 the Master City Plan of the Red River Delta (1983–2000) was approved; the first-ever document in the history of the delta which brought together the four cities into a same urban masterplan. A 40-year phased program was designed that would include at least a dozen metro lines while bringing back a gradual introduction of pre-dictatorship "regional express" lines, with the system covering over 200 km by 2025. The plan eventually was discarded and postponed because of differences between local authorities, but it would lead the start of metro construction works on both Hewharlow and Barleigh.

1999-2005: Masterplan Phase I

The Master Plan of Red River Delta Metro-Region 1999–2020 was approved by the Ministry of Transportation on May 11, 2001. The plan had 17 lines in total, and included 7 regional trenchway intra-city-region express rail lines, eight urban metro lines, and five urban light-rail lines with a total length of about 500 kilometers. The Master Plan restructured the different cities' masterplans and unified them into a unified concept, with numerous line restructurations that conceived better intercity communication.

Master City Plans	Master Plan restructuring	Modern Name
Greenfield line (Barleigh)	Greenfield line	metro line 1
Worcester line (Barleigh)	Worcester & Coast lines	metro lines 2, 6
Newharlow central (Newharlow)	various tentative proposals	metro lines 4, 5 (partial)
Newharlow circular (Newharlow)	Newharlow Loop	metro line 16
Gorgye central railway (Gorgye)	Newharlow-Gorgye railway bypass	Trenchway lines A, B, G and metro line 12 (partial)

2005–2010: Phase II

Greenfield line in 1,2 and 3 partially built, the new Master Plane Phase II lenghened the system to 7 lines by 2010, with an aggressive expansion covering most of In 2003 when the length was only 3 lines, 65 kilometers (with a further 5 lines already under construction), Shanghai was named host city for the World Expo 2010, plans were made to extend the length of the Metro to 400 kilometers by the time it opened in 2010.[12] Thereby it completed the initial 40-year plan 15 years ahead of schedule. During Expo 2010 the metro system consisted of 11 lines, 407 km, and 277 stations.

2011–2021: Completion of a master plan

In 2009 Shanghai announced it would have 21 lines operating by 2020 with lines extending further into the suburban areas. At the end of 2021 (expected), most of the lines of the plan were opened (with an exemption of line 20, Jiamin line, and Chongming line) leading to 19 lines (line 1-18 and Pujiang), 802 km, 516 stations.

On 16 October 2013, with the extension of line 11 into Kunshan in Jiangsu province (about 6.5 km), Shanghai Metro became the first rapid transit system in China to provide cross-provincial service and the second intercity metro after the Guangfo Metro.

2021 onwards: Phase III construction The National Development and Reform Commission has approved the 2018-2023 construction plan for the city's Metro network. The construction of five new metro lines (and two commuter rail lines) and two extensions to opened lines are expected to take five to six years and are planned to start construction before 2023. After completion, there will be 27 metro and commuter rail lines covering 1,154 kilometers.

With the RRD Master Plan, 2017-2035 more emphasis was put on other rail transit modes. The plan calls for a comprehensive transportation system that consists of multimodel rail transit. Intercity lines (regional express railways, municipality railway, and express railway), urban lines (subway and light rail), and local lines (modern tramcar, rubber-tired transit system) in a length of more than 500 km each.

By 2035, public transportation is hoped to account for over 50% of all means of transportation, and 60% of rail transit stations in the inner areas of the main city will have 600m of land coverage.

Infrastructure

Lines

Color	Name	Original name	Connections	First opened	Stations	Length km
Red	Zhdanovskaya Line	Ждановская Линия	Zhdanovskoe Shosse to Molodyozhnaya to Hotel Dulebia to Kryukovo to	31 January, 1909	38	TBA
Blue	Kravtsovskaya Line	Кравцовская Линия	Sadovaya Square to Spassovsky Sobor to Kerchevsky Library to Planetary to Mytishchi to Birulyovo to Beryozki to Kravtsovo to	11 March, 1926	26	TBA
Yellow	Belogorodskaya Line	Белогородская Линия	Belogorodskaya to Severny Prospekt to Proletarsky Dvor to Vasilevsky Dvorets to Vnukovo to Pionerskaya to	22 May, 1934	28	TBA
Gold	Sokolnicheskaya Line	Сокольническая Линия	Belogorodskaya to Severny Prospekt to	1 April, 1986	9	TBA
Orange	Pionerskaya Line	Пионерская Линия	Faculty of Philosophy to Stahanovka to Pionerskaya to Lesnaya to Mytishchi to Kryukovo to Pionerskaya to Petrovsky Prospekt to Bolotnaya to	25 December, 1942	28	TBA
Green	Sovetskaya Line	Советская Линия	Kommunarka to Vasilevsky Dvorets to Pavlovo to Lesnaya to Mytishchi to Kryukovo to Pionerskaya to Spassovsky Sobor to Ivolzhskaya to Hotel Dulebia to Peredelkino to	1 September, 1931	38	TBA
Dark green	Osetovskaya Line	Осетовская Линия	Kommunarka to	11 November, 1996	6	TBA
Lime green	Perlovskaya Line	Перловская Линия	Peredelkino to	16 March, 2004	7	TBA
Teal	Lefordskaya Line	Лефордская Линия	Internatsionalnaya to Dargorod to Faculty of Philosophy to Shchyukinskaya to	3 October, 1947	23	TBA
Teal	Buryanovskaya Line	Буряновская Линия	Internatsionalnaya to Dargorod to	2 July, 2017	7	TBA
Turquoise	Shchyukinskaya Line	Щукинская Линия	Shchyukinskaya to	26 May, 2009	6	TBA
Brown	Stahanovskaya Line	Стахановская Линия	Obryadino to Stahanovka to	3 February, 1972	9	TBA
Silver	Dnistrovskaya Line	Днистровская Линия	Obryadino to Mariyno to Druzhnaya to Kerchevsky Library to Ivolzhskaya to Lehmanskaya to Reznovskaya to Juridical Faculty to Yuzhny Prospekt to	11 December, 1953	34	TBA
Dark brown	Central Diameter	Центральный Диаметр	Sadovaya Square to Proletarsky Dvor to Pavlovo to Druzhnaya to Planetary to Hotel Dulebia to Lehmanskaya to Tsarskoselskaya to	3 June, 1964	8	TBA
Purple	Stolichnaya Line	Столичная Линия	Tsarskoselskaya to	March, 1987	13	TBA
Bordeaux	Malyshevskaya Line	Малышевская Линия	Maryino to Lesnaya to Bukovskaya to	7 October, 1975	12	TBA
Pink	Bukovskaya Line	Буковская Линия	Bukovskaya to Business Centre Ulich-South to EXPO Ulich to	26 November, 1989	6	TBA
Light blue	Birulyovskaya Line	Бирулевская Линия	EXPO Ulich to Business Centre Ulich-South to Birulyovo to Beryozki to Kravtsovo to	26 November, 1989	9	TBA
Light green	Molodyozhnaya Line	Молодежная Линия	Bolotnaya to Molodyozhnaya to Reznovskaya to Juridical Faculty to Yuzhny Prospekt to	21 May, 1969	10	TBA
White+pink	Ulich-Zhdanovo monorail	Монорельс Улич - Жданово	Zhdanovskoe Shosse to Terminal A to	31 August, 1999	2	TBA
Dark pink	Zhdanovo AeroExpress	Аэроэкспресс Жданово	Terminal A to	November-December 2006	10	TBA