The Light Rapid Transit (LRT) Seac Pai Van Line started its service in the early afternoon on Friday after it was inaugurated by Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng in the morning.
Ho and Secretary for Transport and Public Works Raimundo do Rosário unveiled the inaugural plate of the LRT Seac Pai Van Line at its Union Hospital Station at 10 a.m. on Friday.
The 1.6-kilometre-long Seac Pai Van Line connects the Macao Union Hospital in south Cotai and Coloane’s sprawling Seac Pai Van public housing neighbourhood. The line consists of two stations – one next to the public-private Macao Union Hospital complex and the other one near the Seac Pai Van public housing community, officially known as Union Hospital Station and Seac Pai Van Station respectively.
The line’s first – crowded – train departed from Seac Pai Van Station on time at 1:11 p.m. on Friday as scheduled. Friday’s operational start of the Seac Pai Van Line enables LRT passengers to transfer between different lines for the first time, between the Taipa Line and the Seac Pai Van Line, at Union Hospital Station which serves as the cross-platform interchange between the two lines.
The Taipa Line, which also serves Cotai, extended to the peninsula’s Barra Station at its south-western tip in December last year.
The light rail system now has a total of 14 stations, with a total length of 14.1 kilometres.
The new line’s first departing train was packed with LRT enthusiasts.
The Post also took the line’s first departing train, seeing that a one-way ride on the line takes less than one minute and 30 seconds.
Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng (second from right) and Secretary for Transport and Public Works Raimundo do Rosário (left) unveils the inaugural plate of the Light Rapid Transit (LRT) Seac Pai Van Line at its Union Hospital Station on Friday morning. Ho Cheong Kei (first from right), who heads the LRT system’s operator, made a speech during the line’s inauguration ceremony. – Photo: Tony Wong
