LONG-AWAITED Metro Line 10 will be open andready for riders tomorrow, the operator said yesterday.

The subway, dubbed the "golden line," will run through several of thecity's main business hubs - NanjingRoad, HuaihaiRoad, YuyuanGarden, Wujiaochang andthe Shanghai Library - and connects to five existing subways.

With Line 10 up and running, the city will have11 lines on 420 kilometers of track - the country's longest Metro network.

Shanghai gotits first subway, Metro Line 1, in 1995.

To prevent annoying noise and vibration when Line 10 trains are downtown, eightkilometers of track have been equipped with special track beds, costing about80 million yuan (US$11.7 million).