Shanghai Daily Tuesday 8 December 2015 METRO A5 Metro glitch causes chaos during rush hour Zhang Ningning Han, said those stuck inside the crowded carriage were becom- IT was a chaotic start to the ing impatient. week for many commuters as “I saw two arguments. Both Metro services were disrupted started as they blamed the other due to malfunctions during the for pushing. I could only hear morning rush hour yesterday. people say ‘there’s no space’ and A Metro Line 2 train suffered a brake problem and was stuck ‘stop pushing me.’” at Wein ing Road Station at about Both Wang and Han were late 8:20am. Authorities were forced for work by about 20 minutes. limit the speed of other trains As more commuters crowded between Songhong Road Station on to stations, the Metro opera- and People’s Square Station. tor, with the help of subway Normal service only resumed police, launched crowd control after an hour at about 9:30am. measures at People’s Square, But it led to chaos as commut- Jiangsu Road, Century Avenue ers were stranded on platforms and Jing’an Temple stations. on Line 2, prompting the Metro The stations took crowd pre- operators to think up of alter- ventive measures like making it nate plans. one-way passage, closing some Emergency plans to tackle the transfers and turnstiles to avoid large passenger volume was put clashing and stampede between in place at major spots, espe- incoming and commuters going in the opposite direction. cially at People’s Square and Crowds move slowly at the passageway between Metro Line 1, Line 8 and Line 2. — Yan Junmin Century Avenue stations. Local police were also roped “I was pushed onto the train in to support station staff and down at the next station and “Otherwise the flow from the from Huangpi Road S. to a nd pu s he d bac k on t he pl at for m evacuate commuters. haul themselves back in the other two lines would result in Xujiahui. Passengers on the by the crowd,” a local resident Some trains on Line 8 and opposite direction. more passengers getting strand- malfunctioning train were named Wang Qi told Shanghai Line 7 did not halt at People’s “The two stations are very ed at the stations. That would evacuated and the service Daily after being stuck at the Square and Jing’an Temple sta- busy ever y morn i ng. As the com- have been dangerous.” resumed in about 10 minutes. busy People’s Square Station. tions to reduce the pressure on muters could not be transported But shortly after Line 2 As it was almost at the end “The air was also very bad commuters on Line 2, the metro by Line 2 from the stations in resumed operation, a carriage of morning rush hours, fewer as a lot of people were in the operator said on its Weibo ac- time, we had to take measures,” door problem affected Line 1 com muters were affected. Later, carriage.” count at 9:10am. a Metro spokesperson, sur- service on Huangpi Road S. the Metro operator apologized Another commuter, surnamed Passengers were forced to get named Xu, told Shanghai Daily. Station, affecting operations for the inconvenience. Unruly passenger offloaded Chen Huizhi captain allowed three police officers to enter the aircraft. They in itially tried A CHINESE passenger was offloaded to persuade him to leave the aircraft, from a United Airlines flight after and then forcibly removed him. creating a scene at Shanghai Pudong A scuffle ensued in which the offi- International Airport on Sunday. cers were hurt. Police said the passenger, who is Two of the police officers were back not from Shanghai, has been detained on duty while the third one was taking and faces charges for assaulting three a day off, police told Shanghai Daily police officers and deliberately ob- yesterday. structing public activity. There have been similar incidents After boarding Flight UA087 for New like this before. York, the passenger, surnamed Lu, In 2013, a female passenger on insisted on a seat upgrade, and then Shanghai Airlines flight from Harbin went and occupied a seat assigned to from Pudong was detained for five days another passenger. for slapping an air hostess after being The captain of the flight asked Lu Subscribe told that the already delayed f light was to leave the aircraft after he refused waiting for the clearance to take-off. to go back to his seat and notified the In this case, Lu possibly faces a fine airport police. of 200 yuan (US$31) and a maximum After Lu refused to budge, the 37 days in detention. 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