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Old Aug 7, 2019, 8:30 am
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moondog
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Originally Posted by JPDM
Yes, and everything in-between. I saw the new machines in Suzhou a while back. But this is the first step with the whole network done by year-end.
Actually my in-laws in Nanjing have not used paper tickets to go to Shanghai for a few years now.
But the important news here is that it will also work for foreigners.
Yes, this is definitely welcome news. I was expecting that the solution to the "foreigners must use will call" problem would entail adding passport scanners to the ticket printing machines, but ticketless is definitely even better, and presumably cheaper to implement as well.
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