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Old Aug 11, 2011 | 11:14 am
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Originally Posted by anacapamalibu

Ticket prices will be reduced by 5 percent on the affected lines,


That's really going to fill them up
While the 5% price cuts are meaningless (perhaps, I'll use the y25 I save to buy a Big Mac Meal), the trains will fill up, simply because they exist. Company bosses won't tolerate, "the train is dangerous" rhetoric for more than three months... remember, China is operating on the "dog years" premise.
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