When forced to stand on a packed Nanjing Metro, have you ever wondered as to how many people are having the same experience? Which line on our city’s metro system is the busiest? And which was perhaps not worth building?
The numbers of course vary daily. And sometimes quite dramatically. Guess what causes that. Weekends and COVID.
当然，数字每天都在变化。有时相当戏剧化。猜猜是什么原因造成的。周末和新冠疫情。
Nevertheless, The Nanjinger today presents numbers as to the ridership of the Nanjing Metro for yesterday, 18 October. Interested readers may find such information released daily on the Nanjing Metro’s Weibo account (南京地铁).
尽管如此，《南京人》今天还是公布了昨天（10 月 18 日）南京地铁的乘客量数据。有兴趣的读者可以在南京地铁微博（南京地铁）上找到每天发布的此类信息。
So for the record, the Nanjing Metro yesterday transported a total of 2,064,000 people to their respective destinations.
据记录，昨天南京地铁共运送206.4万人次到达目的地。
Given that it is the only line to traverse Xinjiekou, Gulou, Nanjing Railway Station and Nanjing South Railway Station, it should not come as a surprise that Line 1 tops the list. Nanjing Metro Line 1 yesterday carried 569,000 passengers.
鉴于它是唯一一条穿越新街口、鼓楼、南京站和南京南站的线路，1号线位列榜首也就不足为奇了。南京地铁1号线昨天运送乘客56.9万人次。
In second place, fittingly, is Line 2. Again hardly surprising as the only other line to pass through Xinjiekou. Line 2 also runs under the city’s principal thoroughfare that is Zhongshan Dong Lu and links downtown with far-flung Xianlin in Qixia District. Line 2 yesterday transported 512,000 passengers.
排在第二位的则是 2 号线。作为唯一一条经过新街口的线路，这也不足为奇。 2 号线也穿过城市的主要干道中山东路，连接市中心和遥远的栖霞区仙林。 2号线昨天运送乘客51.2万人次。
Next up, and again largely because of its links to our city’s two railway hubs and the fact it passes through Confucius Temple, is Line 3, which yesterday speeded 458,000 people on their way.
接下来，主要是因为它与我们城市的两个铁路枢纽相连，并且经过夫子庙，是 3 号线，昨天，该线运送了 458,000 名乘客。
The rest of the Nanjing Metro system pales into insignificance to the top three.
南京地铁系统的其他部分与前三名相比显得微不足道。
As our city’s other east-west link, the numbering of Line 4 also matches its placing on our chart of yesterday’s most-frequented of Nanjing’s metro lines, carrying 158,000 fare payers.
作为我市另一条东西走向的线路，4 号线的编号也与其在昨天南京最繁忙地铁线路图表中的排名相符，运载了 158,000 名付费乘客。
Then at number 5 is Nanjing’s first metro line to traverse the Yangtze River; Line 10 which brings people from Pukou to connect with the rest of the network at Yuantong and Andemen. Nanjing Metro Line 1 yesterday carried 147,000 passengers.
5号线是南京第一条穿越长江的地铁线路； 10 号线将浦口的人们带到圆通和安德门的其他网络中。南京地铁1号线昨天运送乘客14.7万人次。
Then we start getting out to the sticks, with the links to Nanjing’s more rural areas, the so-called provincial lines, prefixed “S” for “Sheng” or “Province”; “省”.
然后我们开始着手解决，连接南京更多的农村地区，即所谓的省线，前缀“S”代表“盛”或“省”； “省”。
Topping that list, Line S8, which was built to serve distant Luhe District and take spectators and competitors to the sailing contests during the 2014 Youth Olympics, yesterday took 75,000 people to their destinations.
位居榜首的是 S8 线，该线是为了服务遥远的六合区并在 2014 年青奥会期间运送观众和运动员观看帆船比赛而建造的，昨天已运送 75,000 人到达目的地。
Line S3 is at number 7 in yesterday’s placings. Serving our city’s far southwest, Line S3 carried 58,000 people yesterday.
S3 线在昨天的排名中排名第七。 S3 线服务于我们城市的西南部，昨天载客 58,000 人。
Next, our city’s link with Nanjing Lukou International Airport and beyond. Metro Line S1, out of Nanjing South Railway Station turning into Line S3 after the Airport stop, took 40,000 people where they wanted to go yesterday.
接下来是我市与南京禄口国际机场及其他地区的联系。地铁S1号线从南京南站出站，经机场站转为S3号线，昨天载着4万人前往想去的地方。
At number 9, Nanjing’s second-least used metro line is the last complete line to be opened. Serving Jurong in Zhenjiang City out of Maqun, Line S6 managed to yesterday carry only 40,000 passengers.
排名第 9 的南京地铁线路是使用率第二低的地铁线路，也是最后一条开通的完整线路。 S6线从马群出发，服务于镇江市句容，昨天仅运载了4万名乘客。
And at number 10, only one line remains. That would be the link out to far-flung Gaochun District in southern Nanjing. As the least-used line on the Nanjing Metro network, Line S9 only saw 8,000 people on its trains yesterday.
而在第 10 个位置，只剩下一行。这将是通往南京南部偏远的高淳区的线路。作为南京地铁网络中使用率最低的线路，S9号线昨天的列车乘客数仅为8000人。
In reference to S9, we earlier used the phrase, “perhaps not worth building”. But only perhaps. For Line S9 traverses Shiju Lake, the view from which has turned out to be the Nanjing Metro system’s most-Instagrammed scene. Worth having.
在谈到 S9 时，我们之前使用过“也许不值得构建”这句话。但只是也许。 S9线穿越石菊湖，这里的景色成为了南京地铁最受Instagram追捧的场景。值得拥有。
