Laojie station

Laojie

老街
Shenzhen Metro
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese老街
Simplified Chinese老街
Literal meaningOld Street
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinLǎojiē zhàn
Yue: Cantonese
JyutpingLou5 Gaai1 Zaam6
General information
LocationLuohu District, Shenzhen, Guangdong
China
Operated bySZMC (Shenzhen Metro Group)
Line(s)
Platforms6 (2 island platforms and 2 side platforms, side platforms only for emergency use)
Tracks4
Construction
Structure typeUnderground
Platform levels2
AccessibleYes
History
OpenedLine 1: 28 December 2004; 19 years ago (2004-12-28)
Line 3: 28 June 2011; 13 years ago (2011-06-28)
Passengers
2015104,871 daily[1]
Rank1st of 118
Services
Preceding station SZM Shenzhen Metro Following station
Grand Theater
towards Airport East
Line 1 Guomao
towards Luohu
Hongling Line 3 Shaibu
towards Shuanglong
Track layout
3
2
B3F
4
1
B4F
Calligraphy of the Chinese characters for Laojie on the station platform
The neighbouring Dongmen Commercial Street

Laojie station (Chinese: 老街站; pinyin: Lǎojiē zhàn; Jyutping: Lou5 Gaai1 Zaam6; lit. 'Old Street station') is a station on the Shenzhen Metro. It provides cross-platform interchange between Line 1 and Line 3. The station is the busiest on the network with 61,600 passenger entries and exits a day.[2] The Line 1 platforms opened on 28 December 2004 and the Line 3 platforms opened on 28 June 2011. It is located underneath the junction of Shennan Fudao (simplified Chinese: 深南辅道; traditional Chinese: 深南輔道), Jiefang Road (解放路) and Jianshe Road (建设路; 建設路) in the Luohu District of Shenzhen, China. The station is the closest to the Dongmen Business Area (东门商业区; 東門商業區), one of the oldest areas in Shenzhen established in the Ming dynasty.[3]

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  2. ^ "patronage". Universiade 2011 Shenzhen. Archived from the original on 13 January 2013. Retrieved 27 August 2012.
  3. ^ Shenzhen Dongmen: Besides Shopping, There is History