Yellow line (Kaohsiung Metro)

Yellow line, also called Kaohsiung Metropolitan line, is a planned medium capacity, rapid transit line on the Kaohsiung Mass Rapid Transit, currently done planning and under project review process. It's projected to begin commencement building work in 2020.[1]

Kaohsiung Metropolitan Line
(The Yellow Line)
The Yellow Line Route Map (Kaohsiung MRT)
Overview
Native name高雄捷運都會線（黃線）
StatusUnder review
LocaleKaohsiung City,  Republic of China (Taiwan)
TerminiKaohsiung Cruise Terminal Station & Cianjhen Senior High School Station
Dìbù (坔埔)
Stations21
Service
TypeMedium-capacity rail transport system
SystemKaohsiung MRT system
Operator(s)Kaohsiung Rapid Transit Corporation
Depot(s)Niaosong depot
Technical
CharacterUnderground, elevated
Track gauge1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge

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.[2]

By the spring of 2015, the director Wu Yi-Long (吳義隆) of Kaohsiung City Government's Mass Rapid Transit Bureau addressed to the local parliament that the yellow line of light rail transit was undergoing feasibility assessment whose route was likely a combination of 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. [3][4]

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 comprise this plan into The Forward-looking project, whose bid was later agreed and approved by the yuan to be included in on March 23. [5]。

On March 27, few days after the approval of the yuan, 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 basically combines planned Brown Line, Fongshan Line, and Wujia section of the Green Line.

In April 2022, the Executive Yuan approved the construction of the line.[6]

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 Y13 is also called Jiangong-Minzu (建工民族) Line while the section between Y1 and Y21 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 Dipu 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 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 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. "Kaohsiung plans to build third MRT line within 8 years - Economics - CNA ENGLISH NEWS". FOCUS TAIWAN. 21 April 2017. Retrieved 21 July 2017.
  2. 高雄市政府捷運工程局—長期路網規劃—黃線
  3. "雙軌雙環 串起高雄經濟脈絡". 中時電子報. 2015-03-02. Retrieved 2015-04-24.
  4. 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.
  5. "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.
  6. 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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