Passengers traveling on Beijing's new No. 5 subway line in 2008
will be able to watch live coverage of the Olympic Games.
The subway line, under construction for the last four years,
will have a transmitter every 200 meters that can receive
above-ground TV signals, said Ding Shukui, assistant general
manager of Beijing Railway Construction and Management Co. Ltd.
The locomotive and the last carriage on the train will be
equipped with receivers that can transmit signals to the eight
liquid crystal TV sets in each carriage, said Ding.
The new subway line also provides passengers with good access to
mobile phone signals, which are patchy on the other subway
lines.
The No. 5 north-south subway line, which runs from Taipingzhuang
North Station in northern Beijing's Changping district to
Songjiazhuang Station in southern Fengtai district, will go into
operation in September.
(Xinhua News Agency May 2, 2007)