Daejeon Metro Line 2

Daejeon Metro Line 2
Tram train for Daejeon Metro Line 2 on Innotrans trade fair in Berlin, 2024
Overview
Owner	Daejeon City
Locale	Daejeon
Transit type	Rapid transit
Number of lines	1
Number of stations	34
Operation
Began operation	2029 (planned)
Operator(s)	Daejeon Metropolitan Express Transit Corporation
Technical
System length	37.4 kilometres (23.2 mi)

Daejeon Metro Line 2 is a planned street-level tram line located in Daejeon, South Korea. Opening of the line is scheduled for 2029.

In 1995, there were basic plans for five subway lines within Daejeon spread over 100 km of track.^[1] While Daejeon Metro Line 1 started construction in 1996, Line 2 has gone through a number of changes and proposals over the years, including making it a maglev modeled after the maglev in the National Science Museum.^[2] The maglev design passed a feasibility study in 2012,^[3][4] but two years later it was announced the new line would be a streetcar tram system.^[5] In 2015, a basic plan was established and the following year they announced the route, which included two demonstration routes that would later be connected, one in an urban area and one in a business area.^[6] In 2017, the maglev feasibility plan officially expired, which officially ended plans for the line to be a maglev unless a new feasibility study would be conducted.^[7]

In 2018, the Korea Development Institute (KDI) began a new feasibility study, this time for the proposed tram^[8] but was exempted along with 22 other projects as part of the 2019 Balanced National Development Project^[9] before passing KDI's review in August 2019.^[10]

• Daejeon Metro
• Transportation in South Korea