Distribution of opinions at the hangzhou subway hearing
How much does it cost to get on the subway? It's two dollars fixed in beijing. In shanghai, the subway starts at $3. 00, ranging from $3. 00 to $8. 00, depending on the distance. In guangzhou, the metro is two dollars at start-up, and then every eight kilometres plus one dollar. Now, hangzhou subways may cost more than these cities。
Yesterday afternoon, in hangzhou city, a subway ticket hearing was held. At the meeting, two options were proposed: option one, with a start-up price of $2 per 4 km and a cap of $9; option two, with a start-up price of $3 per 6 km and a ceiling of $8. Both sets of pricing were rejected at the hearing because of two words: too expensive. The hangzhou city price office indicated that the subway fare would be further refined。
Half of the representatives are against the existing formula
In the absence of the hearing, the proposed fare on the hangzhou subway line 1 was controversial and almost unanimous, and the fare was too high and even higher than the far north. Yesterday, before the hearing, there were even three non-hearing representatives present to express their opposition to the fare formula. The hangzhou city price authority explained that the higher pricing was due to the high cost of hangzhou subways, with a total investment of more than $23 billion in line 1, the largest infrastructure investment in the history of hangzhou urban construction。
The director of fee management at the hangzhou city price authority is fang hong: the construction of hangzhou subways is costly and expensive because of the poor and difficult construction conditions, as well as the significant increase in labour costs and relocation costs. According to preliminary statistics, the average cost of the first phase of line 1 is around $500 million, and the second phase has exceeded 700 million yuan, which is higher than in other cities in the country。
It is estimated that per capita passenger traffic at the beginning of the operation of the hangzhou subway line 1 was approximately 220,000 per day. Regardless of the options put forward in the hearings, the final proceeds would not cover the operating costs, in other words, although the population felt that the pricing was high, the combined result was that the government would have to pay a substantial fee to ensure the proper operation of the subway。
Starting at 2. 30 p. M., for three hours, 22 hearing delegates spoke sequentially, and more than half of them rejected the pricing formula for the two subway tickets offered by the hangzhou market prices board。
Representatives of the hearing: i object to options i and ii on the grounds that the first is that the formula is unreasonable, that it is priced in kilometres, that it is not transparent for ordinary people and, secondly, that i feel too expensive。
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Low prices are the voice of almost all consumer representatives, even with examples of consumers using their real lives, where $89 worth of subway fares are difficult. Hu yongxiang lives in the lower sand in hangzhou and takes a bus to work in the city every day, comparing it with at least four more dollars a day on the subway。
Hu yongxiang: in the case of lower saa, far from the main urban area, transport costs are higher if the distance from the subway is greater than the minimum of $12 per trip under the two schemes published today. The one-round bus is $8, and if the monthly ticket is $4, the travel costs are much lower than the subway。
There's no final solution
The hearing delegates not only came with problems, but also studied the pricing principles of other cities in the country and offered specific pricing opinions on subway fares in hangzhou. The third set of options, with the same opinion, is that the price of a subway ticket is toplined at around $6. In the view of the political councillor, wang qiang, it is important to control the cost of living of the population in order to attract all types of labour to hangzhou。
Wang zheng: in order to take into account the long-term interest in the overall and sustainable development of the hangzhou economy, i suggest that hangzhou city not be ranked among the most expensive in the country, that it start at $2 and set the maximum price for the entire journey at $5 to $6。
It was agreed that only when ticket prices dropped and more citizens chose to travel by subway would it help to reduce traffic congestion. At the hearing, don zinon, director-general of the operational branch of hangzhou metro corporation limited, gave an account of the difficulties involved in the construction of the subway, and he preferred the pricing formula proposed at the hearing, namely a $2 start-up price。
Don zinonon: as a metro group, it will work actively with the relevant government departments to set the price of a metro, regardless of the fare of options 1 and 2. Whatever fare option is chosen, the metro group is committed to providing quality services to a wide range of passengers。
The amount of the final fare would have to be balanced against the interests of governments, operators, consumers, etc. The deputy director-general of the hangzhou city price agency, wu qing, announced that the hearing programme would be further refined. Yesterday, the hangzhou city prices office network posted an announcement to fully solicit proposals from all sectors of society on subway prices by 8 august. At the end of the hearing, the game of pricing the subway may have just begun. Consumer representatives may have spoken for more hangzhou. (reporter liu li zhang guo liang)
