If you want to ask which station is the highest station in the entire network of Shanghai Metro, different passengers will give the same answer - Century Avenue Station. In order to improve the transfer environment of Century Avenue Station and enhance the barrier-free traffic capacity of the station, on January 6, Hall A of Century Avenue Station has completed a new round of renovation and upgrading.
Accessible elevators open to the platform level.
Century Avenue Station is the first 4-line transfer station in Shanghai, where four rail transit lines intersect. At present, the average daily passenger flow on weekdays is nearly 500,000, of which 75% are transfer passengers, up to 370,000. At the beginning of the design and construction, Century Avenue Station was divided into two parts: Hall A and Hall B.
Before the renovation, if passengers in Hall A wanted to go to Hall B, they needed to take the barrier-free elevator at Exit 12 to the ground, walk from the ground to the barrier-free elevator at Exit 7, then go down to Hall B, and finally take the transfer line. ”
A new barrier-free elevator to the platform of Line 9 has been added to Hall A.
Cheng Chen, the station manager of the Century Avenue station area, told Haihaijun that after the renovation was completed, a barrier-free elevator leading to the platform of Line 9 was added to Hall A, which opened up the original platform floor and greatly saved the passage time of Hall A and Hall B.
According to statistics, during the morning rush hour from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. today, passengers used the barrier-free elevator on the platform of Line 9 for a total of 77 times, most of which were passengers with large luggage.
The fee area is expanded to 500 square meters.
The fee area is expanded to 500 square meters.
Since the new barrier-free elevator is located in the original public passage, under the trade-off, the turnstile can only be expanded outward, and the passage can be included in the charging area of the station hall, that is, the fee area of Hall A is expanded by about 500 square meters. The seemingly simple 500 square meters actually affects all aspects of the station.
The customer service center was "moved" to both sides.
In this renovation and upgrading, the entrance and exit gates of Hall A have been adjusted accordingly, and the original one customer service center has been added to one customer service center near the number and one near the number gate. Haijun saw at the scene that compared with the previous customer service center located in the middle area of Hall A, the renovated customer service center can take into account the situation of passengers entering and leaving the station on both sides, and passengers can inquire about the staff and handle tickets at the first time, and the efficiency and response speed of manual service have been greatly improved.
In addition, due to the characteristics of large passenger flow and small space at Century Avenue Station, since 2012, the rolling shutter door of Line 6 (towards Oriental Sports Center) in Hall A to Line 2 has been closed during full operation hours, and passengers can only transfer from both sides of the restricted circulation. With the adjustment of the fee area of Hall A, the congestion situation during peak hours has been greatly improved.
Two rolling shutter doors open the line "zero distance" transfer.
Therefore, starting from January 7 this year, during the peak hours of weekdays (from the start of operation to 7:30 a.m., from 9:30 a.m. to the end of operation), as well as weekends and holidays, the middle two rolling shutter doors of Line 6 from Hall A of Century Avenue to Line 2 will be opened, realizing the "zero distance" transfer between Line 2 and Line 6, and the original flow restriction measures will still be maintained during peak hours. At 7:45 p.m. in the evening rush hour, Haijun saw that the previously crowded line transfer channel was much more orderly, even if the train arrived at the station, it was not cramped when it encountered a large passenger flow.
New problems arise from the transformation of the Fee District.
While the 500-square-meter new fare area provides more space for the flow of passengers at this large transfer station, it also creates new problems. Hall A currently has 4 exits, the south gate leads to Century Plaza, and the north gate leads to Bailian Century Shopping Center.
The space in the red frame used to be able to travel directly between the two malls.
Many passengers reported that before the renovation, the public passage between the north and the south allowed passengers to pass directly between the two malls without entering the stationAfter the renovation, the passage was set up in the subway hall, so that if you want to enter and exit from the number gate, you have to go first and then exit the station, and vice versa. You need to go through security and pay 3 yuan to get in and out of the subway station, and even if you can find a staff for a refund, it is still very troublesome.
In this regard, Century Avenue Station provides 3 solutions.
Detours. The first is that the B hall of the station still retains the street crossing passage outside the fee area, and passengers who need to cross the street in the two main shopping malls around the city can do so through the B hall passage, but the coast Jun measured that the route on the ground is farther, and it takes more time.
Use the Metro app
From January 1 this year, Century Avenue Station, as one of the pilot stations, allows passengers to use the "Metro Code" to scan the code to enter and exit the station, and can self-help realize the new function of free entry and exit at the same station within 10 minutes.
Manual refund. For passengers who do not use the "Metro Code", if they have the same needs, they can enter the station normally, and the staff will manually update it at the customer service center before leaving the station within 10 minutes, so that the entry and exit of the same station within 10 minutes is free.
Some netizens said that the first convenience of the subway station is the people who take the subway, and the passage between the shopping malls should be solved by the two shopping malls. The opposition argues that people who did not use the subway now enter the turnstiles, and that there are more queues at the turnstiles during rush hour. Some netizens also suggested that the turnstile can be placed horizontally, and then some movable railings can be set up, the channel will be closed during the morning and evening peaks, and the crowds going to and from the two shopping malls can be taken into account during the peak hours.
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Author |Ren Tianbao.
Photography |Chen Mengze, Shanghai Metro Second Transport.
Edited |Ren Tianbao.