The cross-platform interchange connecting the current Light Rail Transit (LRT) Taipa-Cotai section and Union Hospital Station on the future Seac Pai Van section will open on Sunday, enabling passengers to take trains on the Taipa-Cotai section from the Macao Union Hospital through an indoor corridor, the government-owned LRT operator, Macau Light Rapid Transit Corporation Limited (MLM), announced in a statement yesterday.
The 1.6-kilometre-long Seac Pai Van section, which is scheduled to open at the end of this year, will connect the Macao Union Hospital in Cotai and Coloane’s sprawling Seac Pai Van public housing community.
The LRT Seac Pai Van section only has two stations - one outside the Macao Union Hospital and the other one outside the Seac Pai Van public housing community.
The two stations are officially known as Union Hospital Station and Seac Pai Van Station.
The cross-platform interchange that will open on Sunday has been built on the LRT Taipa-Cotai section, with an indoor corridor connected to its nearby Union Hospital Station, enabling LRT passengers to change trains between the Taipa-Cotai section and the Seac Pai Van section, after the latter starts operating.
The upcoming opening of the cross-platform interchange and its adjacent Union Hospital Station on September 1, announced by yesterday’s MLM statement, will first enable those from the large-scale hospital to walk from Union Hospital Station, through an indoor corridor, to the interchange to catch a train on the Taipa-Cotai section.
The new cross-platform interchange is located between Lotus Station and East Asian Games Station on the Taipa-Cotai section.
Yesterday’s statement noted that from the coming Sunday, trains travelling on the Taipa-Cotai section will stop at the new cross-platform interchange, enabling LRT passengers to walk to the adjacent Union Hospital Station and then the Macao Union Hospital through an indoor corridor.
This photo taken in May shows the then newly completed cross-platform interchange on the LRT Taipa-Cotai section. – Photo: DSOP
