BEIJING, Nov. 27 (Xinhua) -- Construction started on the rail transit line 6 and line S1 in Suzhou City of east China's Jiangsu Province on Tuesday.
The line 6 is 36.12 kilometers long with a total investment of about 26 billion yuan, while the line S1 has a total length of 41.72 kilometers with an investment of 29.45 billion yuan. The two lines will be expected to be open to traffic in June, 2024 and December 2023, respectively.
By now, the rail transit line 1, line 2 and line 4 in Suzhou have been already completed and put into use with a total length of 121 kilometers, serving more than 900,000 passengers per day on average.
It is worth noting that the line 3 and line 5 are now under construction with an overall length of 89 kilometers and will start a test run by December, 2019 and June, 2021, respectively.
Nine rail transit lines with a total length of about 350 kilometers will be completed in Suzhou by 2024. (Edited by Wu Shuang, wushuang2018@xinhua.org)
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