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Subway toilets to be more user-friendly
(BOCOG)
Updated: 2007-04-12 11:13
Free paper rolls will be found at the 64 toilets along the subway lines No. 1 and No.2 in Beijing by the end of this month and their ventilation conditions will be improved after a renovation project is finished this year or early next year.
Starting this year, the Beijing Subway Company has engaged in a scheme to renovate the ceilings, walls and surfaces of the toilets, with an aim to upgrade their flushes, lamps, drainage and ventilation systems, and add accessible flushes and other facilities for disabled persons, the Beijing Daily reported.
The project is to satisfy the demand of the growing number of passengers. Some toilets are used daily by no less than 4,000 people.
With a total length of 54 kilometers, the Line No. 1 and 2 are the earliest in Beijing to have been put in use. The capital city's subway lines had totaled 144 kilometers in length till 2005. Since then extensive construction has been underway to add more lines to meet the traffic requirements for the 2008 Olympic Games and those of the city' long-term development.
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