Busy days for subway watchers in Shanghai

the master plan

These a busy times for the subway watchers in Shanghai. New lines are being added shortly and especially at the hubs now much construction is going on.
Yesterday I passed a few times People's Square and that seems very busy as the traditionally chaotic transit between lines 1 and 2 is going to be replaced and line 8 is going to be added. That transit has always been very troublesome and years ago a municipal official in charge of construction explained how that came.
Line 1 was mainly financed by German tax money and the municipal officials were very exited about getting its first subway funded, so exited that they even not thought that they would be able to get a second line. So, when line 2 was financed - again partly with German money - the transit at People's Square proved to be troublesome and basically they had to build a second station.
That forced the massive passenger streams to walk long distances between the two stations.
Those days will be over soon, as the reconstruction of a major new station takes place, while daily traffic goes on as - well almost - normal.
Last night I saw that a major new exit was appearing at the southeast corner of People's Square, so when thing work out well my daily travel time might be reduced too.