Entire subway temporarily out of order
In my last post about the new No.5 subway line, I bitched and moaned about the faulty conveyor belt at the Chongwenmen transfer station. I didn’t realise that even bigger problems were in the offing – this morning the subway line was temporarily out of order and my wife and I had to catch a bus to work. No sooner had we descended an enormous flight of stairs to enter the subway station proper, we were told that the trains were temporarily out of service. My wife was keen to stick it out and wait, but I was more pessimistic and quickly decided that we should catch a bus.
Since the subway authority went to the trouble of announcing the delay, it must have been a serious problem. The other day, we had to wait for about 20 minutes for a train, but there was no announcement (trains are meant to come every four minutes). Today’s problem was probably a simple teething problem, but the entire subway is being hammered by the exponential increase in passengers. In my view, the dirt cheap price of tickets is a mistake – instead of forcing car drivers off the road, the subway is taking people away from cheap buses and bicycles and has created underground bedlam.
Source: China Machete
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