Yellow line (Kaohsiung Metro)

The Yellow Line, also known as the Kaohsiung Metropolitan line, is a planned medium capacity rapid transit line on the Kaohsiung Metro. The line has been approved by the Executive Yuan in March 2022, and construction is expected to start in late 2022.[2]

Yellow Line
Yellow Line route map
Overview
Other name(s)Kaohsiung Metropolitan Line
Native name高雄捷運都會線（黃線）
StatusUnder review
LocaleKaohsiung City,  Republic of China (Taiwan)
Termini
Stations23
Service
TypeMedium-capacity rail transport system
SystemKaohsiung Metro
Operator(s)Kaohsiung Rapid Transit Corporation
Depot(s)Niaosong depot
History
Planned opening2028 (expected)
Technical
CharacterUnderground, elevated
Track gauge1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge
SignallingSiemens Trainguard MT CBTC with subsystems of ATC, ATO GoA 4 (UTO), ATP, ATS and CBI[1]

History

The initial plan of the yellow line was first seen in 2002 when the whole MRT construction plan for Kaohsiung was being re-sketched.[3]

By the spring of 2015, director Wu Yi-Long (吳義隆) of the Kaohsiung City Government's Mass Rapid Transit Bureau addressed to the local parliament that the yellow line was undergoing feasibility assessment whose route was likely a combination of the old-drafted yellow line and Brown Line, which was hoped to be the second circular public transportation line across Kaohsiung City preceded by the first circular line in Kaohsiung and the whole nation. [4][5]

On 14 February 2017, four members of the Legislative Yuan representing Kaohsiung and affiliated with the Democratic Progressive Party, namely Liu Shyh-fang, Lee Kun-tse, Lai Jui-lung, and Hsu Chih-chieh had held a joint press conference unveiling the new draft of the route for the yellow line and asked the Executive Yuan to approve the plan, whose bid was later agreed and approved by the yuan to be included in on March 23. [6]。

On March 27, a few days after the approval of the Executive Yuan's approval, the local MRT bureau submitted the feasibility study of the yellow line to the authorities concerned of the central government. In the study, the line was planned to be an underground system whose route combines the previously planned Brown Line, Fongshan Line, and Wujia section of the Green Line.

In March 2022, the Executive Yuan approved the construction of the line.[7]

Stations

The following graph is the route map for the drafted yellow line only, except other intersecting lines like Green Line and Silver Line.

According to the plan, the yellow line has two start points from Cruise Terminal and MRT Cianjhen Senior High School Station respectively and an end point at Dipu township, Niaosong District, Kaohsiung City. The part begins from Y1 to Y15 is also called Jiangong-Minzu (建工民族) Line while the section between Y1 and Y23 is called Chenching-Wujia (澄清五甲) Line.

Please note that the Station names and locations are tentatively planned.

Proposed station names and their locations
Branch Code Station Name Transfer Location
English Chinese
● ● Y01 Lanpu 坔埔 Niaosong District
● ● Y02 Cizhijiao 崎子腳
● ● Y03 Niaosong 鳥松
● ● Y04 Chang Gung Memorial Hospital 長庚醫院
● ● Y05 Chengcing Lake 澄清湖
● ｜ Y06 Dahua 大華
● ｜ Y07 Benguan 本館
● ｜ Y08 Kaohsiung Industrial High School 高雄高工 Sanmin District
● ｜ Y09 Dagang 大港
● ｜ Y10 Minzu 民族 Taiwan Railways Administration Pingtung Line
● ｜ Y11 Sinyi Elementary School Station 信義國小 Sinsing District
● ｜ Y12 Sihwei Administration Center 四維行政中心 Cianjhen District
Lingya District
● ｜ Y13 Sanduo Market 三多市場
● ｜ Y14 Sanduo Shopping District 三多商圈
● ｜ Y15 Cruise Terminal 旅運中心 Lingya District
● Y16 Baoye Detention Park 寶業滯洪公園 Sanmin District
● Y17 Zhengyi 正義 Taiwan Railways Administration Pingtung Line Lingya District
● Y18 Weiwuying 衛武營
● Y19 Sinjia 新甲 Fongshan District
● Y20 Cilaoye 七老爺
● Y21 Wujia 五甲
● Y22 Longcheng Temple 龍成宮
● Y23 Cianjhen Senior High School 前鎮高中 Cianjhen District

See also

References
  1. "Siemens Mobility to provide CBTC signaling for the first driverless metro system in Kaohsiung, Taiwan". Siemens Mobility (Press release). 7 October 2022. Retrieved 17 November 2022.
  2. "New Kaohsiung MRT line approved; construction to start later this year". Central News Agency (Taiwan). March 20, 2022. Retrieved September 3, 2022.
  3. 高雄市政府捷運工程局—長期路網規劃—黃線
  4. "雙軌雙環 串起高雄經濟脈絡". 中時電子報. 2015-03-02. Retrieved 2015-04-24.
  5. 高雄市議會 (2015-04-20). "第2屆第1次定期大會捷運工程局業務報告" (ppt). Retrieved 2015-04-24.
  6. "砸千億！高捷新增黃線 紅線延伸到路竹". 蘋果即時新聞. 2017-03-23. Retrieved 2017-03-23.
  7. Tsai, Meng-yu; Yeh, Joseph (20 March 2022). "New Kaohsiung MRT line approved; construction to start later this year". Central News Agency. Retrieved 20 April 2022.
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