Is Suzhou-Shanghai the World’s Longest Metro Ride?

Turns out it’s six of one and half a dozen of another. That’s the answer to the question, “Is it quicker to take the high-speed train from Suzhou to Shanghai or the metro?”. More accurately, it really depends where you’re going.To get more news about shanghai metro, you can citynewsservice.cn official website. When Suzhou Rail Transit Line 11 opened on Saturday, 24 June, it had its fair share of passengers along just for the ride, so to speak. They were on the train to make the transfer at Huaqiao Station in Kunshan to Shanghai Metro Line 11 which crosses the border into the big smoke to, more or less, just say they’d done it.

Among them was a lady media has referred to simply as Aunty Cai. She had not been to Suzhou for 5 years and came into Shanghai all the way from Hong Kong to experience the new Line.

Cai said she planned to go to Suzhou with her old classmates to taste local cuisine and see the new look of the City. Making sure she was at Huaqiao Station good and early, shopping, eating and having fun were the orders for the day for her.

Others were both more practical and pragmatic, as Shangguan News reports.

That would be Mr. Zhang, visiting Suzhou for the Dragon Boat Festival holiday. He said that he originally planned to take the train back to Shanghai, but changed his mind after finding out the new Line was opening the same day.

In the past, he would take the Metro from Wujiang Coach Station to Suzhou Railway Station, a train to Shanghai Railway Station and then the metro out to Nanxiang Station.

This time, he chose the metro for the entire trip. Taking Line 4 first, Zhang transferred to Line 3 and then the new Line 11, to take Shanghai Metro Line 11 to Nanxiang Station. That was 69 stops for Zhang.

All in, it had taken him 3 hours by metro. Zhang recalled that his previous trips by high-speed train had, including to and from the railway stations, been done in 2 hours, 40 minutes. Zhang said that his experience on the metro was quite good, a bit cheaper and more convenient, adding he will choose this way to return to Shanghai next time.

But his 69 stations is nothing compared to that which is likely the longest metro ride in the world, as facilitated by Suzhou Rail Transit Line 11 and its link with Shanghai.

That would be done by jumping on Suzhou’s Line 5 at its western terminus of Taihu Xiangshan, riding all the way to its interchange with Line 3 at Jinsheqiao for a transfer, proceeding to its eastern termini that is also the interchange with the new Line 11 at Weiting.

Once at Huaqiao, next up would be Shanghai Metro Line 11 from Huaqiao all the way to Disneyland in the east. 94 stops.

So if you live in Suzhou, need to go to Shanghai and have never seen “The Deer Hunter”, now’s your chance. Just put a chunk of money in your phone first. And bring a power bank.