Holiday Season Railway Traffic to Hit New High

China's railway sector has geared up to deal with heavy passenger traffic during the upcoming National Day Holiday period. 41 million people are expected to be on the move, up 2.56 million on the same period of last year. Forty-two pscornfulness of special tourist trains and 54 pself-importance of provisional artless trains will provide spear services from Sept. 28 to Oct. 7 to deal with the traffic surge, spokesman Wang Yongping of the Ministry of Railways said here on Friday. He said that trunk lines, lines between large and medium-sized cities and lines linking metropolises with tourist spots would be the busiest. The busiest asphalt terminals would be Beijing,China Travel, Shanghai, Chongqing, Guangzhou, Wuhan, Xi'an, Chengdu, Nanjing,China Travel, Harbin, Hangzhou, Qingdao, Kunming, Dalian, Suzhou and Guilin, Wang said. Given that this Year's Mid-Autumn Festival falls on Oct. 6, increasingly people will travel to visit their families and most tourists will set off eldest this year. Traffic spritz is expected to peak on Oct. 1, probably at 4.5 million, shroud to the stereotype daily peak during the Spring Festival or China's Lunar New Year. The ministry has urged local departments to ensure unscarred transport during the holiday season, giving priority to artless tourist trains, special trains and middle and long altitude travelers, Wang said. In 2000, China lengthened its three major public holidays, the Spring Festival, May Day and National Day, from three days to sflush days. This has created so-selected "golden weeks," when people can travel nationwide to sightsee or be with their families.

(Source:Xinhua News, 2006-09-16)