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Festival exodus already started
(eastday.com)
Updated: 2005-01-05 08:45 Spring Festival travel wasn't
expected to heat up until the end of this month, but Shanghai railway
stations are already busy as a large number of migrant workers are heading home
early for the holiday.
The country's transport authority previously announced the peak travel season
for the upcoming Spring Festival would start on January 25.
However, since January 1, lots of migrant workers from Sichuan and Anhui
provinces began to go back to their hometowns to spend the Spring Festival
before the peak season arrives.
"These passengers have created massive traffic on the routes to provinces
such as Sichuan and Guizhou," said Wang Lushan, a Shanghai Railway Station
official.
Wang noted that the busiest train is the No. 1352 heading for Chengdu City in
Sichuan, which is already running at full capacity.
As the No. 1352 train doesn't have air conditioning and its tickets are
relatively cheaper than other lines, out-of-town workers prefer to ride it, Wang
noted.
Starting on New Year's Day, the station began offering tickets 10 days ahead
of departure time to meet increasing demand. Usually, passengers can only buy
tickets six days prior to departure.
"These days we are much busier than normal. More and more people are buying
tickets to return home for the upcoming Spring Festival," said an officer
surnamed Zheng at the station's ticket office. "The tickets to Chengdu and
Fuyang (in Anhui Province) are the most popular."
While waiting for his train, a migrant laborer surnamed Wang said the heavy
snow around the year-end suspended the construction project he was working on.
"Most workers would rather go home as early as they can than stay in Shanghai
without any work to do," Wang said, noting tickets are cheaper at this time of
year.
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