Metro line to overlap with maglev route

SHANGHAI: Under this city's plan to extend metro line 2 to link its two airports with downtown, parts of the line will overlap with the suspended maglev rail extension.

Work on the metro line is to be completed before 2010, when Shanghai will host the World Expo, a local paper reported recently.

The extension represents a major reversal from a previous plan, under which the maglev train between Longyang Road and Pudong International Airport was to be extended westward to connect Hongqiao Airport, which handles most of the city's domestic air traffic, before the expo.