New Year's Day is approaching, and there are many citizens and tourists from all over the world. The Beijing Youth Daily reporter noted that at present, many subways, including Shanghai, Suzhou, Chongqing, etc., announced that in combination with the historical passenger flow law, in order to meet the travel needs of citizens and tourists during the festival, the Chinese New Year's Eve subway will operate overnight or delayed.
A reporter from Beiqing Daily found that in terms of extending the operation of the subway, the subway companies in many cities have estimated the possible passenger flow according to historical laws. For example, during the "New Year's Day" holiday in 2024, Shanghai's commercial marketing and New Year's Eve activities will be carried out intensively, and the passenger flow of the whole network will increase significantly due to the superimposed effect of leisure and entertainment, shopping, tourism and other flows. According to Shanghai Metro**, the average daily passenger flow of the entire subway network will exceed 7.37 million during the New Year's Day holiday. In order to meet the travel needs of citizens and tourists during the festival, Shanghai Metro has formulated a special operation organization plan for the "New Year's Day" in 2024, and according to the plan, the subway line will implement delayed operation for three days from December 29 to 31, 2023.
Combined with the historical passenger flow law, Guangzhou Metro expects that the passenger flow of the line network during the New Year's Day period will increase to a certain extent compared with the daily life, of which the passenger flow of the Guangzhou Metro network may exceed 10 million on the day before the New Year's Day holiday (December 29) and on the day of Chinese New Year's Eve (December 31). In order to meet the needs of citizens for holiday travel, the Guangzhou metro network will extend the operating service hours on December 31, 2023 and January 1, 2024 respectively5 hours and 1 hour.
A reporter from Beiqing Daily noticed that some urban subways that announced the extension of operation had been implemented in previous years, and these places chose to continue to implement them this year. For example, in 2021 and 2022, Suzhou Metro has extended the operating service hours of each line, and operated overnight on Chinese New Year's Eve. This year, during the New Year's Day, the Suzhou Metro line network operated overnight on Chinese New Year's Eve, and extended operation at other times. Among them, New Year's Day crosses Chinese New Year's Eve (December 31, 2023), and all lines of the line network will operate overnight. The interval between each line before 2:00 the next day shall not exceed 15 minutes, and the interval between each line after 2:00 the next day shall not exceed 30 minutes. On the first day (December 30, 2023) and the third day (January 1, 2024) of the New Year's Day holiday, the main lines of Line 1, Line 2, Line 4 and Line 5 will operate at the same time as regular weekends, and the branch lines of Line 3 and Line 11 and Line 4 will be extended by 45 minutes.
Also operating overnight on Chinese New Year's Eve is Hohhot. According to Hohhot Metro news, the 2024 New Year's Day holiday is coming, in order to facilitate passengers to travel safely and conveniently during the holiday and relieve traffic pressure, Hohhot Metro will make adjustments to the subway line transportation plan during the New Year's Day. The evening peak will be extended the day before the New Year's Day holiday (December 29, 2023). New Year's Day Chinese New Year's Eve (December 31, 2023) will be operated overnight.
Jiangsu Xuzhou Metro extended its operation during New Year's Day in 2022, and Xuzhou Metro will continue to extend its operating hours this year. On December 29, 2023, December 30, 2023, and January 1, 2024, the operation service hours of the entire network will be extended to 24:00. On December 31, 2023, the operation service hours of the entire network will be extended to 1:00 the next day (the operating service hours are from 6:00 to 1:00 the next day).
Chongqing Metro regards the extension of operation during the New Year's Day as a "sense of ceremony", and Chongqing Metro said that the "sense of ceremony" of Chongqing rail transit every year is to accompany the majority of passengers on New Year's Eve. Chongqing will also extend its operating hours this year. Chongqing Railway Group has formulated a differentiated plan for extending the operating hours on December 31 based on the characteristics of the night passenger flow on Chinese New Year's Eve in previous years, and the operating hours of the main passenger flow sections and main passenger flow directions of the line have been extended by 1 hour to 2 hours. (Reporter Li Tiezhu Intern Jin Jing).
*: Beijing Youth Daily).