Builder puts metro back on track

GUANGZHOU: A homeowner on the site of the city's new metro line has forced the builder to find a more expensive digging method to avoid damaging her house, rather than compensate her to move.

Lu Xiuhua's two-story house - 170 sq m large with a grocery store her family runs on the first floor and living quarters on the second - is located on the site of the new Guangzhou Metro (GZMTR) Line 5.

The first phase of the project, covering 31 km and costing 15.3 billion yuan ($2 billion), was planned for completion next year and opened to the public in 2009, reported the Southern Metropolis Daily on Wednesday.