In more than two months, the subway will be “open” into the lives of the hangzhou people, as reported by the chinese voice of news. However, hangzhou citizens are not necessarily happy. On 18 july, two pricing packages of the hangzhou city prices office were announced, and an analysis of the two sets concluded that hangzhou subway fare would be higher than the north-east。
At 2:30 p. M. This afternoon, the hangzhou city prices board will hold a public hearing on both pricing options for public opinion. So, what's the pricing formula for hangzhou subway tickets? What will the citizens' representatives at the hearings decide
The hangzhou city price office published two sets of ticket hearing programmes and a list of 22 persons who participated in the hearings. The hearing programme made it clear that the establishment of subway fares was influenced by factors such as public transport development policies, consumer affordability, operating costs of enterprises, and the affordability of public finances, which resulted in the use of a mileage segment。
Option i, with a start-up price of $2 per 4 km and a cap of $9; option ii, with a start-up price of $3 per 6 km and a ceiling of $8. When the plan came out, the hangzhou people started accounting. Mr. Zhu's daily bus travels from hangzhou ping city to work in the centre of the city, about 24 kilometres away, and he's been waiting for the subway to open, but he feels that the current programme cannot afford it。
Mr. Zou: i think it's expensive. If you want seven dollars a trip, you get 14 bucks a trip. Under option two, $6 a trip, $12 a round trip, and i'll take a bus to hangzhou for the month。
Although the hearing programme also introduced preferential policies for specific groups, such as the hangzhou city seniors over 70 years of age, who are free of charge during non-peak hours and are required to buy half a ticket to travel by car. However, there is much more to say about the high prices. In his view, the price of a subway ticket should take into account the psychological position of the population, as yuhua, the director of zhejiang henling, was one of the consumer representatives attending the hearing。
Luo-hwa: now that the programme balances that interest, that interest and that balance, the mindset of the most important people is not balanced. If priced purely according to market patterns, that is what market demand is, and what price is. Taking into account many interests, together with government subsidies, i believe that the psychological price of the population is an important reference factor。
The population accepted the start-up price set by the hearing programme, but considered the terminal price set too high. Yuhua's opinion is that the price of a subway ticket should be closed online by reference to the capital city of hangzhou, where he believes it should be $6。
Yuhua: since the cost of the subway is accounted for, the integration assessment is based on the long triangle, can we top the city of the province, nanjing is the top four dollars, nanjing per capita GDP is over 32,000, hangzhou is over 34,000? The government must be subsidizing the subway, and on the basis of the subsidy, it feels that your subsidy is right to satisfy the people, who would otherwise be dissatisfied with the money。
As a representative of the expert scholars, professor wang, zhejiang university of commerce and industry, he believed that in hangzhou, short-distance subways were not actually economical and that long-distance transportation was a more convenient advantage. If the price of the metro terminal is set reasonably, many people may abandon their private cars, abandon their unit buses and choose to travel by metro。
The main city and the sub-city are connected more closely, the new and old areas are transported at long distances and the subway has advantages. It is also fast and convenient to reduce congestion in central urban areas, to speed up traffic links between the main city's sub-cities and to increase the traffic of the subway to its full effect. In this sense, prices should not be set high。
There are 12 cities operating subways, with three modes of fare: beijing has a single fare system of $2; nanjing and chengdu have an inter-district fare system such as the nanjing 1 line, with the first 8 stations at $2 plus $1 per additional station; shanghai and guangzhou have a fare system that attracts mainly medium- and long-distance arrivals. In wang's view, even when operating costs are considered, metro companies can profit by other means, such as advertising proceeds, and single ticket prices are key to maximizing the flow of people。
As a representative of other stakeholders, the secretary-general of the hangzhou association of taxi industries, cai guanyao, believes that the setting of a subway fare, like the costing of taxi fares, should be considered in terms of the affordability of the population and the cost of subway operations. Tsai guanyao also tends to make appropriate adjustments to tele-prices and may even consider granting the population a certain amount of concessions, such as a discount of about 20 to 90 per cent, using monthly tickets, annual cards, etc。
Cai guanyao: the busiest train is in the middle of the city, and if the ticket price is set high, it may affect some of our customers, so we think of it as the first option, with the highest prices at the end, such as the ability to make some more appropriate adjustments. There is a third option between the two options。
The hearings have not yet taken place, and the delegates involved in the hearings have long been able to draw on the views of the public and actively develop positions, including through seminars and investigations. It is understood that there is room for discussion on the two sets of hearings, and what would be the price of hangzhou's first subway line? Will it become the most expensive subway in the country? We'll see。
