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Old Mar 21, 2010 | 8:23 am
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Originally Posted by moondog
My friend is able bodied and sort of smart, though he is the only guy I know who misses more than 2 flights per year. Luckily for him, FM had a second flight to HK one hour later. I'm tempted to fly out of Pudong tomorrow in order to validate this "research". If I can't pull off house-->airport in less than one hour, then we can chalk up another win for taxi/bus. Having said that, as subways go, line 7 is a blessing (the line 4 xfer is similar to Washington, DC).
Ah I missed the fact that he was starting from Changping Rd. That's 13 stops away from Longyang Rd. The timetable says it takes 34 minutes.

So I'd be very surprised if you can make the whole trip in under an hour as the Maglev is going to set you back by 17~25 minutes (average to worst). And then you have to add the time on foot.

I'd suggest switching to line 2 at Jingansi, that'll shave off about 10 minutes.
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