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Re: Re: Re: Re: how about the technology used in the Public Transit system?
Are you refering to Shanghai or Beijing? I haven't been on any bus/subway/taxi that didn't accept IC card. And there is a usually a notice next to the IC card reader "In case the reader is broken, passengers get to take the ride for free"......
Yes, I was talking about the majority of cities in China, not just Shanghai and Beijing.
For one thing, the bus tickets are not accepted on OTrains. For another, it usually takes couple minutes to do a creditcard transaction before you get off a cab, compared to seconds of swiping the IC card.
Otrain does take bus transfer(not ticket). And right now, O'train is plainly useless for most people not going to Carleton Univ. and Confederation building.
Why? Because the bus comes every minute! The next bus is already pulling in before you finish dialing the 4 digits.
Are you saying you have a bus in your way coming EVERY minute? Let's do some math. 24 hour a day, 60 mins an hour. So
you have 1440 buses for each line every day. I doubt they got anywhere near 1/10 th of that.
By the way, you don't ride bikes in China as you do here?
Yes, I don't ride bicycle as much as I do in Canada because it's much worse to ride it in China for horriby traffic, bad weather and dust in air. And I have to care more than whether the bike would be stolen than whether it's easy to ride.
IC card is just one example, a tip of the iceberg...... With an open mind and high efficiency, Shanghai does way better than many cities in the world, Ottawa for one, Toronto for another.
About 20 years ago, a novel author said" Chairman Mao only changed Beijing and its nearby region". It seems we have a similar situation in China now, in a larger scale though. Beijing, Shanghai and several metropolises are going well, the rest of the country is still far behind.
Are you refering to Shanghai or Beijing? I haven't been on any bus/subway/taxi that didn't accept IC card. And there is a usually a notice next to the IC card reader "In case the reader is broken, passengers get to take the ride for free"......
Yes, I was talking about the majority of cities in China, not just Shanghai and Beijing.
For one thing, the bus tickets are not accepted on OTrains. For another, it usually takes couple minutes to do a creditcard transaction before you get off a cab, compared to seconds of swiping the IC card.
Otrain does take bus transfer(not ticket). And right now, O'train is plainly useless for most people not going to Carleton Univ. and Confederation building.
Why? Because the bus comes every minute! The next bus is already pulling in before you finish dialing the 4 digits.
Are you saying you have a bus in your way coming EVERY minute? Let's do some math. 24 hour a day, 60 mins an hour. So
you have 1440 buses for each line every day. I doubt they got anywhere near 1/10 th of that.
By the way, you don't ride bikes in China as you do here?
Yes, I don't ride bicycle as much as I do in Canada because it's much worse to ride it in China for horriby traffic, bad weather and dust in air. And I have to care more than whether the bike would be stolen than whether it's easy to ride.
IC card is just one example, a tip of the iceberg...... With an open mind and high efficiency, Shanghai does way better than many cities in the world, Ottawa for one, Toronto for another.
About 20 years ago, a novel author said" Chairman Mao only changed Beijing and its nearby region". It seems we have a similar situation in China now, in a larger scale though. Beijing, Shanghai and several metropolises are going well, the rest of the country is still far behind.
