Beijing is a prosperous metropolis, as there are several subway lines in town and some of the lines are still under construction, and Line 14 is one of them.
Line 14 of the Beijing Subway is a rapid transit rail line under construction in Beijing. The line is planned to run across the southern and eastern fringes of urban Beijing from the Dongheyan Lu on the west bank of the Yongding River in the southwest corner of the city to Shan'gezhuang in the northeast corner. It will stop at the Beijing South Station, the city’s high speed rail terminus. In all, Line 14 will be 47.7 km in length and have 36 stations. and is being built in two phases. Phase I, about 30 km in length with 22 stations, comprises the entire southern section and about one-third of the eastern section of the complete line. Construction began on April 29, 2010 and is expected to cost Y18 billion. Phase I is expected to be completed in 2013 and the rest of the line is expected to be built by 2014. Line 14 will be the first metro line in Beijing to use high capacity wide-body A size trains.
The precise route of Line 14 has been revised several times and is still subject to change even as construction on Phase I gets underway. Line 14 is certain to begin in the southwest at Dongheyan Lu, just west of the Yongding River, pass through South Station, where platforms for Line 14 have already been built, and eventually reach Wangjing. Phase I calls for construction of a line from Dongheyan Lu to Guangqu Lu.
In Phase I, Line 14 will begin at the Dongheyan Lu in Fengtai District, on the southwestern edge of urban Beijing. It will cross the river to Zhangyi Village and enter the5thRing Road. Going due east on Fengtai Nan Lu, it will pass by the Fengtai Sports Center, enter the4thRing Road and continue eastward on Fengtai Bei Lu, which becomes Lize Lu inside the3rdRing Road. Line 14 then meets Line 4 at the Beijing South Station, the city’s newly built high-speed rail terminus, near Yongdingmen, near the southern tip of Chongwen District. Going further east, Line 14 re-enters Fengtai District and crosses Line 5 near Puhuangyu. It then follows Pufang Lu through the heavily residential Fangzhuang section of Fengtai and emerges outside of the3rdRing Road on Hongyan Lu in Chaoyang District. Line 14 ends its eastward journey abruptly at Xidawang Lu, where it turns straight north. After passing by the Beijing University of Technology, Phase I of Line 14 will end at the junction of Xidawang Lu and Guangqu Lu, due east of Jinsong. Phase I may be completed by early as 2013.
Phase II of Line 14 will continue north on Xidawang Lu, crossing Line 7 near Baiziwan, and Line 1, at Dawang Lu. Further north, Dawang Lu turns into Jintai Lu, which Line 14 will follow to the Chaoyang Park. After cutting through the park, Line 14 will exit the4thRing Road via Jiuxianqiao Lu, which then extends straight north to the Capital Airport Expressway. North of the expressway, Line 14 enters the vast Wangjing neighborhood of Chaoyang District. The Line bisects Wangjing from south to north on Guangshun Nan and Bei Dajie. It then emerges north of the5thRing Road and terminates in the Laiguangying section of Chaoyang District. Phase II is expected to be completed in 2014.
