On May 1st, the national railways ushered in a peak passenger flow. A total of 758 trains were opened, sending 17.243 million passengers, a record high in the number of railway passengers per day, an increase of 5.292 million passengers, an increase of 44.3%.
Unfortunately, some passengers who originally bought regular train tickets were unable to travel normally because of other people's reasons.
In the early morning of May 1, a number of netizens posted on the Internet that they had bought train tickets many days in advance for the May Day holiday, but they could not get on the train. Although the staff indicated that they would refund in full, they called The trip plan was messed up.
Netizens reported that the problem of ticket purchase failure to board the train involved the 5022 train passing through the station Zibo Railway Station, and the K8372 train passing through the station Nanjing Railway Station. The
railway department responded that due to the May 1st holiday, the number of passengers traveling increased significantly. Many short-distance passengers and passengers without tickets boarded the train to make up their tickets, and even "forcibly" ride to their destinations, causing the train to reach Zibo Station and Nanjing Station. , The vehicle is 100% overloaded. "But the staff cannot check the train tickets one by one, dragging and driving away passengers without tickets." For the safety of train operation, a full refund method was adopted for subsequent passengers.
but netizens do not buy it. After all, the original travel plan was disrupted.
On the evening of May 1, Nanjing Railway Station issued a holiday travel reminder on its official Weibo: It is not feasible to buy short-term trains.
Actually, this is not the first time that a train is overloaded and unable to move. On the last day of the Qingming Festival this year, many passengers on the G7192 Fuxing train "buy short and long ride", which caused the train to be overloaded and delayed by one hour. On January 21 this year, the G7209 train from Suzhou to Shanghai was suspected to be unable to run due to overcrowded trains.
It is true that many media have reported that women who "buy short and take long" were detained and included in similar news such as railway dishonest officers. However, such cases are mostly malicious fare evasion, and for passengers who are willing to make up the fare, the railway department has acquiesced that as long as they take the initiative to make up the fare, "buying the short and long ride" is not a problem.
Of course, there are also some places that explicitly say no to this behavior. For example, Hong Kong clearly stated that if a passenger does not buy a high-speed rail ticket for West Kowloon Station and rides to West Kowloon Station, he will be fined.
There are two opinions on the Internet. Some people think that the railway department should strengthen management from the source, and strictly check the tickets after getting on the train. When encountering the situation of "buying short and long rides" that interferes with the order of train operation, they are forced to get off the train. Some people believe that some passengers may temporarily change their destinations after getting on the bus, so they may request to make up long-distance tickets. If the passengers who "buy short and take long" are forced to get off the bus, it also loses the meaning of the original humanized operation.
But the question is, is this fair for those passengers who normally buy tickets but cannot travel normally?
Author: Zhang Xiaoming
Editor: Shi Bozhen
Editor: Tang Weijie
