Wuhan-Guangzhou iron and the fare is high!

Attention of 29-Guangzhou iron to date has been opened 4 days, its fares and attendance at the opening were strongly concerned before. 29, journalists on-site interviews found that comprehensive day all-day ticket sales, Wuhan-Guangzhou passenger designed departing average attendance is less than 40%. What makes this much-anticipated new contract with the "trunk"? (30 December the chutianjin newspaper ").

From the day of the opening of the Wuhan-Guangzhou 26, less than 90% of attendance, the author was forecast, daily attendance-Guangzhou iron is not optimistic. Beijing-Guangzhou line is the most busy, crowded railway, transport and demand contradiction most prominent railway line. But after several years of Wuhan-Guangzhou iron building, often walk to Beijing-Guangzhou line regulars were already waiting, plus network, television, newspapers and omnipresent publicity, rendering, although high prices of Wuhan-Guangzhou iron came as a surprise to people expected, however, is the taste of a fresh, plan a surprise by opening the first day should vote. However, the attendance was less than 90%, or even just figure a fresh stimulation due to high ticket also gives many passengers coming to a halt. It seems that, after coming into fresh daily attendance certainly not optimistic after. Pineapples.

The "off season, the car lot, people rarely, vote for your" this is reported in the four major reasons. As for the low season, but have now entered a quasi peak season. As a stream and other reasons, some universities already ahead of the holiday. At the same time, as the busiest of Beijing-Guangzhou line, South of migrant workers, students, and to the South out of tolerance, see friends of visitors throughout the year flow considerably. Off-season time has been very short. Car more reasons somewhat reluctantly. Investment so much just to solve the problem of the lack of transport capacity, this and more is not a contradiction in the car? fundamentally "off-season, cars, people rarely" is a reason.

The most fundamental reason or high ticket prices. From Wuhan to Guangzhou, a $ 749, such as fares, fare of $ 469. Even a $ 3000 a month wage earnings, have spent a week's wages. And similarly to Guangzhou express hard sleeper fares in 240 Yuan, most are evening rounds towards to the train, passengers slept one night you can arrive in Guangzhou. If not you can claim or in a hurry, many tourists are not willing to pay.

A significant amount of public resources in the construction of high-speed rail must not be completely divorced from their public service and public welfare. China 13 million population conditions determine the country of investment, the monopoly of the railway must be for the purpose of serving the public, rather than into a small number of sectors of special trains. This requires locating the fare should take full account of the most vast numbers of people earning capacity instead and Germany high, Japan Kyoto Shinkansen fares and other high income countries. If most of the vast number of people from income sustainability, investment giant iron may be discarded by the people, markets, and ultimately resulted in a huge waste of national investment and the enormous high tieyun can idle. National investment is so big, modern level high, speed, fast, but because as a high price makes a large number of empty runs in Guanghan train line, how much waste! this not only goes against people's railway to people, people-oriented, but completely deviated from the construction of high-speed rail in the first place.

Here the author proposed railway sector for at least two surveys: one is to check out Preston, direct fast air conditioning and other passenger cars in attendance, the second is to look at the weekend high attendance. If you also run on other passenger loading in Wuhan-Guangzhou is very high even where, if you are still not high attendance at the weekend, then, the MOR must be taken seriously, you must take the appropriate measures.

Wuhan-Guangzhou iron fares are appropriate with a demonstration and elevation. Upcoming open-Xi'an (Zhengzhou-Xian) iron and will open in 2012, as well as the Railway Express under construction many iron will to Wuhan-Guangzhou iron as a reference to determine the fare.

The author recommends, and the forthcoming opening of Wuhan-Guangzhou-Xi'an high second class fares should 0.35 Yuan/kilometer, slightly higher than the speed of 250 km/h EMU, at least for the medium-income first feel able to sit up. At the same time, do not reduce the other grades of passenger train.