Huaqiao metro station (Kunshan)

Huaqiao

花桥
Huaqiao; 花桥 ;
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	花桥
Traditional Chinese	花橋
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Huāqiáo
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutping	faa1 kiu4
General information
Location	Guangming Road (光明路) and Yanhu Avenue (沿沪大道); Huaqiao, Kunshan, Suzhou, Jiangsu; China
Coordinates	31.3006°N 121.0998°E
Operated by	Shanghai No. 2 Metro Operation Co. Ltd. (Shanghai Metro Line 11) Suzhou Rail Transit Group (Suzhou Rail Transit Line 11)
Line(s)	Line 11 (Shanghai Metro); Line 11 (Suzhou Rail Transit)
Platforms	4 (4 platforms)
Tracks	4
Construction
Structure type	Elevated (Shanghai Metro Line 11); Underground (Suzhou Rail Transit Line 11)
Accessible	Yes
History
Opened	16 October 2013 (Shanghai Metro Line 11); 24 June 2023 (Suzhou Rail Transit Line 11)
Services

Huaqiao (simplified Chinese: 花桥; traditional Chinese: 花橋; pinyin: Huāqiáo) is a metro station on Line 11 of the Shanghai Metro & Line 11 of the Suzhou Rail Transit. Located at the intersection of Guangming Road and Yanhu Avenue in Huaqiao, Kunshan, Suzhou, Jiangsu, it serves as the current western terminus on the branch line of Shanghai Metro Line 11 & the Eastern terminus of the Suzhou Rail Transit Line 11.^[1]

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History

Shanghai Metro

The station for Shanghai Metro Line 11 opened on 16 October 2013.^[2] It is an elevated station. It is one of three stations in the Shanghai Metro system that is not located in the municipality of Shanghai itself, the other two being Guangming Road and Zhaofeng Road, which are adjacent on the line.^[3]^[4]

From 26 January 2020 to 24 March 2020, and from 14 Feb 2022 to 3 April 2022, services on a segment of Shanghai Metro Line 11 between Huaqiao and Anting stations were suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[5]^[6]^[7]

Suzhou Rail Transit

The station for Suzhou Rail Transit Line 11 opened on 24 June 2023 as an underground station, which makes it an interchange between two rail systems.^[8]

Structure

Huaqiao Station of Shanghai Metro is an elevated station with two side platforms, with one concourse that is compmosed of two individual paid zones. Huaqiao Station of Suzhou Rail Transit is an underground station with one island platform.

There are three transfer channels between the two parts: one for the east paid zone of Shanghai Metro Huaqiao concourse, one for the west zone, and another (in the middle) for the unpaid zone. When transferring through these transfer channels except the middle one, no extra security check is needed.

The transfer channels connects Shanghai Metro and Suzhou Rail Transit, which use different pricing systems. Passengers who use specified mobile applications and have enabled "senseless transfer" may transfer without getting out and again getting in the gates. Other passengers, including those using public transportation cards or single journey tickets, should get out and in through the gates of different systems.^[9]