Comments on: Beijing Subway Guide: of Tickets and Faregates http://cnreviews.com/beijing/beijing_subway_guide_of_tickets_and_faregates_20080721.html About China blogosphere, travel, and entrepreneurship Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:52:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Beijing Subway 101 | Business88 http://cnreviews.com/beijing/beijing_subway_guide_of_tickets_and_faregates_20080721.html#comment-4396 Beijing Subway 101 | Business88 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:20:20 +0000 http://cnreviews.com/beijing/beijing_subway_guide_of_tickets_and_faregates_20080721.html#comment-4396 [...] post on how to get around Beijing using Beijing’s subway. The post is entitled, “Beijing Subway Guide: of Tickets and Faregates,” and it does an excellent job setting out the dos and don’ts. If I might add one [...] [...] post on how to get around Beijing using Beijing’s subway. The post is entitled, “Beijing Subway Guide: of Tickets and Faregates,” and it does an excellent job setting out the dos and don’ts. If I might add one [...]

]]> By: Chinawatcher http://cnreviews.com/beijing/beijing_subway_guide_of_tickets_and_faregates_20080721.html#comment-4188 Chinawatcher Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:55:41 +0000 http://cnreviews.com/beijing/beijing_subway_guide_of_tickets_and_faregates_20080721.html#comment-4188 David, this is a masterly post! I'm still trying to see if there are any contingencies you haven't covered, but you seem to have gone through them all. Almost like you did it out of a flow chart - If Yes, go to 4, If No, go to Hell... etc :-) David, this is a masterly post! I’m still trying to see if there are any contingencies you haven’t covered, but you seem to have gone through them all. Almost like you did it out of a flow chart - If Yes, go to 4, If No, go to Hell… etc :-)

]]> By: b. cheng http://cnreviews.com/beijing/beijing_subway_guide_of_tickets_and_faregates_20080721.html#comment-4130 b. cheng Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:38:53 +0000 http://cnreviews.com/beijing/beijing_subway_guide_of_tickets_and_faregates_20080721.html#comment-4130 This should be translated into Chinese and handed to every nongmin at the train and long distance bus stations, it would save so, so many headaches... This should be translated into Chinese and handed to every nongmin at the train and long distance bus stations, it would save so, so many headaches…

]]> By: Micah Sittig http://cnreviews.com/beijing/beijing_subway_guide_of_tickets_and_faregates_20080721.html#comment-3971 Micah Sittig Mon, 21 Jul 2008 04:15:59 +0000 http://cnreviews.com/beijing/beijing_subway_guide_of_tickets_and_faregates_20080721.html#comment-3971 I love the 一卡通 recharge machines in Shanghai - even when there's long lines to buy single tickets, they're always open! 10 times standard fare seems high for riding without paying. In Shanghai at rush hour card mis-swipes are common and people get pretty indignant about being made to pay for what they see as a system failure, so the rate has been set at the metro system's max fare, RMB 9. I wonder if Beijing will end up revisiting this amount. Finally, we snuck a balloon — forbidden on the Shanghai Metro! — for our daughter onto the subway yesterday and brought it all the way from Jing'an Temple to Century Park, hoho. The emperor is far away down here in the South... I love the 一卡通 recharge machines in Shanghai - even when there’s long lines to buy single tickets, they’re always open!

10 times standard fare seems high for riding without paying. In Shanghai at rush hour card mis-swipes are common and people get pretty indignant about being made to pay for what they see as a system failure, so the rate has been set at the metro system’s max fare, RMB 9. I wonder if Beijing will end up revisiting this amount.

Finally, we snuck a balloon — forbidden on the Shanghai Metro! — for our daughter onto the subway yesterday and brought it all the way from Jing’an Temple to Century Park, hoho. The emperor is far away down here in the South…

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