World's youngest MRT Better Than famiLEE LEEgime's 1st World - Lui to take a tour!

[uncleyap]

It is just one month old and it took them 23 years to build it. It is 8.5 km long and people use it more as an attraction. We are going to explore the Almaty Metro, Kazakhstan.

The Almaty Metro opened on December 1st, 2011. Construction works began in the Soviet time in 1988 but after the fall of the USSR, the construction was frozen to be resumed in 2005.

Photography is prohibited here unless you have an authorization.

People with a bicycle and dogs are allowed to use the metro which is good.

To enter the metro, you may use either your multi entry smart card that expires in 90 days or a token valid during one day. Both of them are protected with micro chips.

Saturday is a token’s day. Each Saturday, people may bring their invalid tokens for free reprogramming.

Now, it would not be a problem for special needs people or mommies with a stroller to get into the metro.

So far, people have been coming here for a joyride.

Local newspapers wrote that some newlyweds visited the metro for a change on their wedding day.

They plan to build several more stations and one of them is going to be called ‘Moscow’.

Trains arrive every 15 minutes.

This station is called ‘Baikonur’. Here, they show a movie about a rocket launch.

That girl in a uniform warns people not to cross the line and come too close to the edge. The point is that these people may use the Metro for the first time in their life and not know basic safety tips.

South Korean Hyundai Rotem has designed and produced 7 stainless steel trains specially for the Almaty Metro.

All trains are equipped with air conditioners and surveillance cameras.

A sleeperless track.

No comment.

Each day, over 30,000 passengers use the Almaty Metro.

The metro features a lot of ramps for special needs people.

They offer this device to special needs people to help them use the escalator.

It is so simple and helpful at the same time.

This device transports wheelchairs when there are no ramps around.

 

[singveld]

Re: World's youngest MRT Better Than famiLEE LEEgime's 1st World - Lui to take a tour

how can that be better than singapore. underground station that have no doors, what about the people who going to jump train, or push down and have their legs cut off.

It is unacceptable for new station that have no doors to protect user from the track.

 

[Fook Seng]

how can that be better than singapore. underground station that have no doors, what about the people who going to jump train, or push down and have their legs cut off.

It is unacceptable for new station that have no doors to protect user from the track.

Most Metro systems in the world do not have doors on the platform indoor or outdoor. Notable examples are London Tube and Washington DC Metro.

Singapore too did not have protective doors in outdoor platforms when it first started. And SMRT resisted to put gates on outdoor platforms for a long time until the accident rate got too high. The installation of protective doors is not only a cost issue but also has operational implication, an additional sub-system in the signalling system that will add to the overall failure rate of the system. Indoor protective doors come in only when it is designed for high congestion. Singapore follows this principle.

In a normal traffic network, there is an acceptable cost benefit balance to do away with protective doors unless the society is so extremely stressed that can lead to commuters deliberately harming themselves.

 

[botakboon]

Re: World's youngest MRT Better Than famiLEE LEEgime's 1st World - Lui to take a tour

how can that be better than singapore. underground station that have no doors, what about the people who going to jump train, or push down and have their legs cut off.

It is unacceptable for new station that have no doors to protect user from the track.

The people from other countries will only laugh at Singapore's suicide crisis. Reservoir also need door?

Uniquely SG!:*:

 

[Ash007]

Re: World's youngest MRT Better Than famiLEE LEEgime's 1st World - Lui to take a tour

When the MRT system just got build in Singapore it was claimed, rightly so to be the best. Wait another 50 years and we will see if this would end up to be the best or not. New things are usually better in the first couple of years at least.

 

[singveld]

Re: World's youngest MRT Better Than famiLEE LEEgime's 1st World - Lui to take a tour

Most Metro systems in the world do not have doors on the platform indoor or outdoor. Notable examples are London Tube and Washington DC Metro.

yeah old station in london dun have doors, but all new station have it. old station have no space to put doors, and worse some are curve, how do you make doors for these old station.

but like the thread starter said, this is new station, why their indoor station have no doors?

singapore have doors in all indoor station from the start.

 

[singveld]

Re: World's youngest MRT Better Than famiLEE LEEgime's 1st World - Lui to take a tour

The people from other countries will only laugh at Singapore's suicide crisis. Reservoir also need door?

Uniquely SG!:*:

it is not just a singapore problem, people die in foreign countries station with no doors too. It is a problem if designer do not build doors.

 

[Muthukali]

Re: World's youngest MRT Better Than famiLEE LEEgime's 1st World - Lui to take a tour

Borat will be using that???

 

[botakboon]

Re: World's youngest MRT Better Than famiLEE LEEgime's 1st World - Lui to take a tour

it is not just a singapore problem, people die in foreign countries station with no doors too. It is a problem if designer do not build doors.

Singapore itself had the same MRT without anything to prevent suicide for OVER 10 YEARS! And there were no suicide nor accidents. Only until PAP started to get more greedy.

That showed THE problem.

You can dream of designs that prevents this and that. No! They can all be abused and compromised if someone wants to.

Reservoirs had been free of suicide and existed in SG for over 100 years since the British Colonial era. What happened now.?

Designs can at the most just cause some deterrents towards abuses.

The lack of abuses when there is nothing to prevent them, shows a perfection. Otherwise it shows only problems an crisis. Designs are only patches to the problems an crisis. Not solutions. You patch the MRT they jumped reservoir. That's it!

You want redesign reservoirs? They will jump from fly-overs!

 

[uncleyap]

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Posted on February 6, 2012 by ok4u2bu

They opened a metro in Kazan in 2005 to celebrate the city’s thousandth birthday. It became the 7th metro in Russia and the first metro to be built after the fall of the Soviet Union. Currently, the Kazan Metro includes seven metro stations and one line of 11 km long. Trains arrive at the stations each 6 to 10 minutes. It is open from 6 a.m. till 11 p.m. Over 100,000 people use the metro daily.

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Kozya Sloboda Station is the newest station of the metro.

It opened in 2010 increasing the number of passengers using the metro by 2.5.

The station’s interior is made out in high-tech.

60 cm from the edge of the platform, they have installed lights to warn passengers about the upcoming trains.

4 entrances and 2 vestibules lead into the station.

They show advertisements on that screen on the wall.

They have also installed escalators by Thyssenkrupp featuring a stop/start system which saves electricity by working only with passengers on.

Each ticket will cost you $0.5. They accept smart tokens and smart cards. Smart tokens are valid during one day. If you haven’t used it, you can exchange it for a new one on Saturday and Sunday.

Ticket offices.

Kremlyevskaya Station.

It was named after the Kremlin which explains its interior design.

10 mosaics decorate its walls.

Such towers symbolize mosque minarets. According to a legend, the dragon is here to guard the city.

The ceiling.

Direction signs are written in two languages, Russian and Tatar, while on the train you will also hear English.

There are two vestibules at the station, south and north.

The north vestibule has a lot of natural light due to its glass atrium. As for the south one, it opened in 2006 but was temporary closed in 2008 due to a low passenger traffic. They open it on holidays.

Tuqay Ploschad Station.

National white and green marble prevail in its interior which also features 12 columns.

“Ğabdulla Tuqay” mosaic is one of the 22 mosaic pictures of the station.

“Goat and Sheep”.

“Water Sprite”.

“Ğabdulla Tuqay”.

The station is connected with underground floors of Koltso Shopping and Entertainment Center.

Children’s paintings and Tuqay’s bust.

Each station of the Kazan Metro is equipped with X-ray introscopes like the ones they install in airports, and Homo Scan scanner which makes it possible to completely examine the passenger in a matter of seconds.

Sukonnaya Sloboda Station.

Many years ago, they used this area as a market to sell textile (Kazan was crossed by the Silk Road).

Beige and brown colors prevail in its interior. It also features marble columns and bronze lamps.

Ametyevo Station.

On the outside, the station looks like a two-level glass bridge.

The lower level is a station itself while the upper level is a covered pedestrian gallery.

Pay telephones are installed in the center of the station, may be to waste away some time while waiting for another train.

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Posted on February 6, 2012 by ok4u2bu

Gorki Station.

“Gorki”.

The station has a lot of green marble too.

It features two underground vestibules with staircases leading up to the platform.

It is equipped with devices to help special needs people use the station.

Prospekt Pobedy Station opened in 2008. It is devoted to the victory of the USSR in the battle with fascism.

“Hero city Leningrad”.

The chandeliers symbolize the fireworks people could watch on May 9th, 1945.

Entrance into its vestibule.

Ametyevo Depot.

The building may contain up to 82 cars.

“Kazan”.
These trains were made in Saint Petersburg in cooperation with Škoda Dopravní Technika (the Czech Republic). There are 5 trains in the depot. Each train consists of 4 cars seating 250 persons each.

They also purchased three Rusich trains with cars seating 350 persons.

A Kazan train under repair.