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Seoul’s high-speed super subway takes shape

https://asiatimes.com/2021/03/seouls...y-takes-shape/

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- South Korea is breaking new ground literally and figuratively: Work is underway on a subway line on which trains will run at up to 180km/h. Seoul’s GTX (“Great Train Express”) network is set to be the world’s fastest underground rail line when it begins operations under the capital’s streets in three years. It aims to hyper-accelerate passengers across the vast sprawl of Seoul and slash commuting times between the metropolis and its surrounding satellite cities. Project visionaries call it the beginning of a transport revolution. And indeed GTX could provide a congestion-smashing model for mega cities around Asia – and across the world. But to be successful, it has to overcome a range of engineering challenges, deal with protests related to underground real estate ownership and overcome fears over buried cultural properties uncovered during construction.

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