The long-awaited Foshan Dongguan Intercity finally opened, but in fact, since the first day of opening, I have realized that I may have been thinking too much, and I didn't even have the chance to catch that bus. The reason for this idea is that the first train on the first day of operation was from Dongguan to Guangzhou. When it arrived at the Machong Station, all people on the platform could not get on the train. Because the train was already crowded, passenger flow control was carried out at the platform. In theory, it is understandable that the first train on the first day of opening is like this. After all, everyone is fresh, but I don't think so. The second day of opening was Monday, an ordinary working day. A colleague of the company tried to take the Fo Guan Intercity to go home, but found that even in the evening peak of an ordinary working day, there were few seats left when getting on the bus in Machong. What does that mean? It means that if I want to go home on Friday night, I have to make a question mark whether I can get on the bus, because the flow of people from Monday to Thursday is certainly different from that of Friday, and it is no exaggeration that the flow of people on Friday is more than three times that of other working days.
The weekend of June 1st has been crazy once. The three-day Dragon Boat Festival holiday is crazy to the limit. Fortunately, my colleague asked for leave on the Friday before the Dragon Boat Festival and couldn't leave me at Machong Station when she was off work. If she did leave me at that place, I might not know what time to get on the bus that night. Because the stations in Dongguan were already full. The students had to take the bus home before the festival. The university students crowded out all the trains that were more than 16 o'clock. After the fourth line was completed, the sign of "sold out" appeared on 12306 for the first time. On the Friday before the Dragon Boat Festival, I left my work 20 minutes early, but the time to get home was about the same as usual, because I waited for Guan 618 on the left bank of Binjiang River for nearly 20 minutes. The waiting for the bus almost wiped out all my advance time, but at least it took me less than two and a half hours to get home. After returning home, I turned on my computer and opened Baidu Post Bar. I found that netizens said that all the tickets on 12306 had been sold out before 9 p.m. in the Guanghui Intercity from Dongguan to Guangzhou. Of course, you can also directly swipe the QR code in the station hall without buying a ticket on 12306, but who knows how many passenger flow controls there will be.
The afternoon and evening of the last day of the Dragon Boat Festival holiday are even more crazy, no matter which direction. Both Guangzhao and Guanghui intercity are full. Since the afternoon, the train has been delayed in a large area. So many people were blocked before the security check, so many people were blocked between the iron horses before entering the gate, and so many people were waiting at the platform. The intercity train is different from the subway train. I have never heard that the subway train will drive off passengers because of overcrowding, but if the intercity train is overcrowded, the train will alarm, or even cannot start, so it can only invite passengers off. The train could not run at the normal speed even though the door was forced closed, so it had to run at a reduced speed. Therefore, a large area of train delays began in the afternoon. The reason was that the train could not run according to the set schedule because of the reduced speed.
How do you understand the term "large subway"? Because it runs a long route? But in fact, the departure interval of trains is also very long. The trains run every 40 minutes. If the trains run every 4 minutes, a station may have 10 more passengers from the subway, which is just the case of one station. Therefore, if this large subway fails to increase the density of trains during peak hours, it will only lead to waves of complaints and reputation will decline. People in need will have to queue up even if they are crowded again, but people who have other options may not want to take advantage of this so-called convenience. Dongguan is a city with a population of ten million. Most people in this city are not local people in Dongguan. It is conceivable that when they want to flow, it is a terrible number. It is the limit of the fourth intercity line in Guangdong to send 200000 yuan a day without extra buses. Some trains are too crowded to be crowded again. It is estimated that neither the Guangzhou Metro nor the leaders of the four cities expected that this large metro would have the same passenger flow as a volcanic eruption so soon.
Machong is only one step away from Lianhua, or Machong Town, Dongguan, and Panyu District, Guangzhou. But the key is that I may not be able to get on the train to Guangzhou in the blink of an eye at some critical times.