Real-name system for train tickets
The transport during the spring festival has always been large on scale, the total passenger flow volume of which outnumbers our national gross population every year, which becomes extremely stressful for the national train traffic. Popular grievances are openly voiced everywhere at the time of the year. To ease the traffic pressure, the support has grown for the demand of real-name train ticket system.
A pilot program for the real-name train ticket system was launched earlier this year. Started from 21st, Jan, at 37 train stations, including Guangzhou, the passengers can buy train tickets with their ID cards. The train tickets used some specific time before the spring festival and after will have buyers’ ID number and name on them, namely with each ID card number one can only buy one ticket. Later the passenger has to take his ID card as well as the ticket with him to get on the train.
Thus, as the supporters put it, the measure would guarantee equality and deter those hateful scalpers. The populace, especially the migrant workers, often encounter unfairness when taking public transportation. Cases are often like they would stand in line for a long time but still fail to get the ticket they want. While some filthy sharpshooters take chances and make profits by reselling tickets. Shame on them. But in face of the cruel reality, the populace’s taking train becomes a choice that adheres neither right nor dignity: they could either go around fishing for help or personal connections or just buy a “black” ticket 10 times the original price. As long as the real-name train ticket system is involved, not only the scalpers will be repelled but also the inequality in the ticket-buying procedure will be fixed.
Plus, with the rapid development of economy, the major change of society as well as the immense fluidity of population, the uncertain factors that cause some public order problems have been increasing, and crimes that committed on the railway become salient on a daily basis. From the perspective, the practice of the real-name ticket system would definitely ensure the security apartments of the railway to perform a better job later.
On the other side, there are also many citizens who show strong disagreement on this practice, saying it’s impractical. Debates on the internet are heated. An outcry of protests comes up with the following facts.
1.Both the Railway Law and the Resident Identification Card Act have no such requirements.
So it is lack of legal basis.
2.During the Spring Festival period, the biggest difference between air flights and train
communication is that the passenger flow volume. Once the real-name train ticket is carried out, it will add up the trouble checking in. Both time and efficiency will be greatly affected, and will very likely cause delays of masses of passengers. Some dangerous accidents will be silently embedded. As a conclusion, the real-name ticket system cannot be practical for now.
3.This new policy demands the passengers to carry their ID cards and other supporting
documents with them all along. This is an extra burden to the passengers, and they will have to risk losing them.
4.As the name, the gender, the age and the ID number are all showed on the tickets, it would
very likely bring about forgery and faking documents and will not stop the scalpers from operating their old “joke” on their consumers.
All and all, the practice could perplex the procedure. This is an unnecessary reform. If the practice aimed only at the scalpers, you might as well simply make the price float time after time; if it is all for strengthen the safety management of the railway, the real-name ticket system does have some merits.
Truth is, the article writer totally is in favor of the practice. But there are many problems tagged along, all of them should merit special attention from everyone concerned. Good or bad, this new policy will influence and change our lives for sure. What we need to do is to think deep and to take more factors into consideration, to welcome advices as well as criticism, and finally we would be able to avoid some unnecessary troubles and hidden danger as well as to achieve what the original thought aims.。