People who often take the train will always buy a station ticket a few times, and after getting on the train, they are lucky to occasionally encounter an empty seat and sit for a while, and if they are unlucky, they can only stand all the way home.
Standing tickets and sitting tickets, although one station goes home, the other sits home, but the ticket price is the same.
From the perspective of simple public thinking, this regulation is obviously unreasonable, spending the same money and enjoying different services. Anyone who buys a standing ticket for the first time will always feel unfair in their hearts, but they just have to reluctantly accept the rules.
Some people say that you know that standing tickets are such rules, and you still want to buy standing tickets, which means that you know that the terms of the contract are not good for you, but you still sign them, and you should not make irresponsible remarks afterwards.
From a contractual point of view, knowing that standing tickets are treated differently at the same price, but still buying tickets is an acceptance of such a rule, and there is really nothing to say. In reality, no one bought a station ticket, and after arriving at the destination, they found the train station to refund the difference, no one made trouble, everyone obeyed this rule, but obedience does not mean that this rule is reasonable.
The first reason for the same price is that trains provide a service that takes you from the starting point to the end point, not a seat for you. The first demand of passengers is the transfer of space, and whether you have a seat or not does not affect your space transfer, just ask you if you are home! If you really care about it, why don't you reason with the subway company that how many people can have a place on the subway?
If this reason is valid, and the train does not provide seat service, then why not completely remove all the seats in the train, and everyone will stand like the subway, wouldn't it be conducive to the transportation of more people. Seats are provided on the train, and sleepers are also provided for long-distance travel, which can also be seen from the fact that the railway department also recognizes that the train has the obligation to provide seats, so how can this obligation disappear on the station ticket?
The second reason for the same price is that there are many poor people in the country, and once the standing ticket is cheaper than the sitting ticket, many people do not buy the sitting ticket, but only the standing ticket.
This was really possible in the past, but will it still happen now? If anyone does, will everyone do? If the railway company is worried that everyone will only buy cheap and not comfortable, then why do you provide business seats and first-class seats? It stands to reason that as long as there are second-class seats, no one will buy business seats and first-class seats. How can the same logic not apply to standing tickets? What's more, this can be solved by technical means, as long as the second-class seats are sold out, and the peddling of station tickets begins, then there will be no situation where the station tickets are sold out and the seat tickets have not been sold. The actual situation is also the same now, who bought a standing ticket when there are still tickets available?
The third reason for the same price is that the train ticket can be so cheap, it is subsidized by the state, you enjoy the state subsidy, and it is good to have a ticket to get on the train, and it is crooked.
Train tickets are subsidized by the state, and I believe this. But for the same fare, I enjoyed a subsidy for the standing ticket, and he also enjoyed a subsidy for the ticket, why the same subsidy, the ticket also subsidized the seat.
People can tolerate standing tickets, but for various reasons they book tickets late, and others book early, so there is nothing to say. But patience does not mean recognition, I booked the ticket late, I accept that there is no place to sit, but how should I be given a discount on the ticket price! The ticket stand is nothing more than this appeal.
In fact, no one is a standing ticket, the standing ticket person is not a fixed group, the vast majority of people have bought a seat ticket and a standing ticket. It's just puzzling that when someone speaks out for the standing and sitting price rule, there are always people who oppose it, or disdain or insult it, as if the money from selling tickets has reached them. There is always a group of people who accept unreasonable rules and hope that others will accept them, even if the shouts of others will eventually bring them benefits.