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Beijing Subway Company released a plan to prepare for this year’s flood season, ensuring passenger safety when a rainstorm hits, the company announced on June 16.
More trains will be added to facilitate commuters and they will slow the speed in case of poor visibility. When visibility is reduced to less than five meters, the train will stop at once.
The company also launched a campaign to improve the awareness of responsibility on each employee, hoping to ensure no accidents, said Jia Peng, a company spokesman.
The company gets itself ready for flood prevention from March each year, and this year’s preparations will continue to investigate the possible dangers at every place along the subway lines, including stations, parking lots, cable pits, office facilities and ditches. Some forecourts of low-lying stations on subway Line 13, for instance, have been heightened.
In addition, it has set aside ample reserve flood fighting equipment, such as 269 movable emergency water pumps, 28,200 sandbags and 1,500 cubic meters of rock ballast for potential emergencies. Also, a 1,158 person crew will be on-stand by for emergencies.
The company will assign workers to attend some high-incidence areas, especially the entrances to tunnels.
