Subway Line 13: Shortening The Wait
A new subway line, lower fares: the Beijing Subway is suddenly the way to get around the capital of 1.3 billion. However, the gaps -- the service intervals -- still make this a sub-optimal system. With waits up to 11 minutes at times on some lines, the wait can get more than very frustrating.
However, relief is on the way: beginning today, the evening peak hour service interval (from around 16:40 to 20:40) on Subway Line 13 will be shrunk from 5 minutes to 3 minutes and 30 seconds. (The morning peak hour service gap already is at 3:30.) This is good news for those of you in Wudaokou/Qinghua, Shangdi, Huilongguan, Lishuiqiao, Beiyuan, Wangjing (West) and Shaoyaoju, which is where Line 13 runs through.
So what's going to give? Believe it or not, the food intake. To really "serve the people", subway staff will cut their dinner from 30 minutes down to 15 minutes.
This kind of brings a tear to mine eye... xinku la!
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we're doing content regarding all matters, in fact. We'll be adding in more diverse content with every single day. Personally I'm more familiar with transport, but I understand the need for more diversified content, and will put that content up there.
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Yeah, I'd like to see more about life in Beijing. What's on the front papers? What happens to the people? I would have titled this blog "Late? Subway staff in Beijing now only have 15 minutes to eat dinner", for example. Less traffic maybe and more how transportation in Beijing affects the average person's daily life.
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Agreed, any blog post that starts with the subway number and DOESN'T end in "Blows up" needs a re-think. Something like "Foreign students shave fifteen minutes off booze run times" might have grabbed me.
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Ah, now they're possibly after you. Exploding subways? ;) Do agree with the fact that the articles are going to touch "real life" more.
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I for one am totally enjoying David's transport posts. I think they're interesting and the topics are kind of maybe sort of convincing me that I need to stop with the thousands of kuai (no joke) i spend each month on taxis and maybe a bit more time on the subway lines.
Oh, who am I kidding? Every time I get on a subway train, I want to shoot myself in the face. Still, having a wealth of constant information ABOUT the system is helping me see it in a different way.
Keep posting, David!
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Correct me if I'm wrong here... but I'm guessing there is more to Beijing than subway/transportation related topics?