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Post by wildoats on Feb 4, 2016 20:13:07 GMT 7
This will make <Bunny boiler> jealous!Chinese woman becomes 'world's luckiest passenger' Just quietly ... I'd like to get lucky.
Plenty of leg room, personalised service and no crying babies or unruly fellow passengers.That was what one lucky traveller in China experienced while flying home to Guangzhou for the New Year holiday. Delays meant all other passengers had swapped to an earlier flight, leaving Ms Zhang to enjoy the "rockstar" trip. Flying rather than going by train also meant she avoided huge delays which saw around 100,000 people stranded at Guangzhou station this week. BBC.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2016 20:35:53 GMT 7
Good for her when you consider this: China’s Lunar New Year travel season is considered the world’s biggest annual human migration. The national railway authority expects to ferry 332 million passengers this season – a rise of nearly 13 per cent from the same time last year, Xinhua reported. Some 2.91 billion passenger trips are expected to be made on all forms of transport over the 40-day travel period, which runs from January 24 to March 3. www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/1908568/huge-queues-thousands-stranded-guangzhou-train-station-coldWe were in Canton last weekend and it was madness through immi both ways, traffic jams and delays everywhere. |
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Post by onionluke on Feb 4, 2016 20:53:46 GMT 7
The big move ment by construction workers from Macau has started today, last weeks delays were only a taste of the chaos ahead. Oh yes , stay in your homes.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2016 20:59:49 GMT 7
Stay in your homes, stock up and avoid the crowds. Like a plague of locusts everywhere.
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Post by wildoats on Feb 4, 2016 21:08:53 GMT 7
Good for her when you consider this: China’s Lunar New Year travel season is considered the world’s biggest annual human migration. The national railway authority expects to ferry 332 million passengers this season – a rise of nearly 13 per cent from the same time last year, Xinhua reported. Some 2.91 billion passenger trips are expected to be made on all forms of transport over the 40-day travel period, which runs from January 24 to March 3. www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/1908568/huge-queues-thousands-stranded-guangzhou-train-station-coldWe were in Canton last weekend and it was madness through immi both ways, traffic jams and delays everywhere. Amazing, almost incomprehensible stats you are quoting there. I wonder that those same Chinese think when they travel in Australia. Miles and miles, hundreds of miles of few if no people. Thinking the bus trip from the Alice to Ayers Rock |
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Post by onionluke on Feb 4, 2016 21:09:14 GMT 7
Stay in your homes, stock up and avoid the crowds. Like a plague of locusts everywhere. Ha ha, I know the monicker well, but those locusts are workers trying to get back to the family for the festival. I couldn't imagine having to take that trip . Poor folks. Constituted fish ball sellers will make a fortune in the name of tradition. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2016 21:16:53 GMT 7
Stay in your homes, stock up and avoid the crowds. Like a plague of locusts everywhere. Ha ha, I know the monicker well, but those locusts are workers trying to get back to the family for the festival. I couldn't imagine having to take that trip . Poor folks. Constituted fish ball sellers will make a fortune in the name of tradition. It's the only time in a whole year most see families so the migration is a necessary evil. Switch to HK did you see that story of mainland women smugglers stuffing live lobsters in their luggage on the MTR to cater for the demand of HK's love of 'luxury' foods during this time? My first taste of CNY in the mainland years ago was Shanghai People's Square metro. Swat team and army there for crowd control, that's the apex where all the twentysomething lines cross, the interchange. Never again. Human stampede. |
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Post by onionluke on Feb 4, 2016 21:34:22 GMT 7
Ha ha, I know the monicker well, but those locusts are workers trying to get back to the family for the festival. I couldn't imagine having to take that trip . Poor folks. Constituted fish ball sellers will make a fortune in the name of tradition. It's the only time in a whole year most see families so the migration is a necessary evil. Switch to HK did you see that story of mainland women smugglers stuffing live lobsters in their luggage on the MTR to cater for the demand of HK's love of 'luxury' foods during this time? My first taste of CNY in the mainland years ago was Shanghai People's Square metro. Swat team and army there for crowd control, that's the apex where all the twentysomething lines cross, the interchange. Never again. Human stampede. I saw that, they were taking the lobsters back to PRC. I am heading back to HK tomorow even' and shopping is not on my agenda. The only day I will venture into town is Tuesday for a family get together at A Fai's on queen street, its a tradition for me and my extended family. |
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