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IlIlNine · Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Location: Gunpo, Gyonggi, SoKo

Hi all.

Check out this picture:

http://photoimg.enjoyjapan.naver.com/view/47/43/enjoyjapan_18/20000/19391.gif

(too big to inline)

Shows all of the plans for expansion in the coming years. Incredible!

Oido to Incheon!

East Ansan to Suwon!

Up to the TDC in the north! Even further south than Cheonan!

Sorry .. I'm excited!

itaewonguy · Joined: 25 Mar 2003

damn that is gonna take YEAAARRRSSS!!!!
and why no stops into SUJI!!! arrhhhh CHINCHA!!!!
its amazing.. today it took me from the pangyo ic exit to suji 1 hour!!
1 hour!!!!! something seriously needs to be done about this suji traffic its out of control.. either get another freeway toll booth exit just for suji, or make more roads which I think it happening which I can see. I HOPE MORE LIKE IT.. or put in a subway line from ori over to suji! I mean just build 2 or 3 stops.. thats enough!! PPLLLEEAAASSEEEEE!! get these ajumas off the streets!!!!

animalbirdfish · Joined: 04 Feb 2004

There's a ton of stops on that red line that aren't even named yet, so it's hard to tell where that'll take us.

I'd been wanting to see a map like this, though. They've had that road through Banpo - near the Express Terminal - torn up for the last several years and completion isn't expected until about 2009, I think.

Thanks for posting that.

BigBlackEquus · Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2005 5:22 pm Post subject:

Anyone else notice that the new and widened highway going from Seoul to Pangyo and on to Osan still takes as long, and sometimes almost longer, than it used to before they fixed it? There is a now a nice little delay/bottleneck caused by the exit coming out of Kangnam/Apkujeong or somewhere. That is the fly in the ointment, but after that, it gets normal.

Nothing like adding a problem to fix a problem (or incredibly fast population growth!)

Zyzyfer · Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2005 7:12 pm Post subject:

Hater Depot · Joined: 29 Mar 2005

What's with the highway they've been building through Suwon? When is the bleeping thing supposed to be finished?

tzechuk · Joined: 20 Dec 2004

They should just underground the whole country. It'll make life so much easier for the North to infiltrate.

Razz

Sorry.. just trolling. hahhaha..

Zyzyfer · Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2005 10:40 pm Post subject:

Swiss James · Joined: 26 Nov 2003 Location: Shanghai

great link, ta

stumptown · Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 2:31 am Post subject:

They're building one here in Bucheon that is supposed to be finished in 2010. It's pretty interesting watching the construction. They use a huge auger to drill into the ground and then drop down a pipe and fill it with concrete.

hypnotist · Joined: 04 Dec 2004 Location: I wish I were a sock

Ilsanman · Joined: 15 Aug 2003 Location: Bucheon, Korea

1 earthquake and the whole country will collapse.

OiGirl · Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: Hoke-y-gun

What, if anything, does it mean that most of the expansion seems ot be in the Korail part of the system? I have found their existing lines to be slower.

mithridates · Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 6:54 am Post subject:

Considering this is the system in the place I grew up in:

I'm quite happy with the rate of expansion here. In Calgary the NW side was extended by *one* station some 13 years after the last one, and they'll build one more in three more years. Yay. Nothing like ticket machines that can't be arsed to give you change either. Ticket is $1.85, you put in $2, and the machine's like "What, you still standing around here? Change? What a quaint notion. Um, no. You got your ticket now get in the train it's f**kng -35 you retard."
Yes, oh noble C-Train machine sir. Thank you for coming every 15 minutes.

And don't get me started on last winter when I was visiting and the train that pulled up just forgot to activate the door buttons on one of the cars. Whoops. Have another fun 15 minutes in the -20. Ta!

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

They still need a subway line that runs east-west across the top of Seoul. Try getting from Nowon to where line 3/6 terminate in the north west. I used to work with a woman that had to make that commute every day. Ugg.