On January 29, the Shanghai Municipal Road Transport Administration issued the "Notice on Prohibiting the Operation of Online Ride-hailing at Pudong Airport", and my first feeling after seeing this decision was that whoever drank too much made this decision, we must forgive him, because everyone will drink too much, and we must give him the opportunity to make mistakes.
Due to work, half of my time is on a business trip, benefiting from the development of high-speed rail, the frequency of Pudong Airport is now much lower, and now the highest frequency of my appearance in this city should be Hongqiao high-speed rail station, basically more than twice a week on average, this decision of Pudong Airport has not had such a big impact on me, but I always feel that this decision is made by drinking too much. Let's not think about the various reasons for this decision, I am now tentatively thinking about drinking too much, and recall the situation of traveling to Pudong Airport before the rise of online car-hailing, in the early years, in addition to private car travel to Pudong Airport, there were four options: Metro Line 2, maglev train, airport bus, and taxi.
Pudong Airport is now the main airport in Shanghai.
Take me personally, for example, I live between Pudong Central and Inner Ring close to the Inner Ring, if you take the subway to Pudong Airport from home it takes 75 minutes, if you travel with luggage then need to transfer to the subway is still very inconvenient, especially during peak hours, the congestion of Shanghai Metro Line 2 is much better now, but it is still a challenge. And the subway also involves the issue of running times, and Shanghai's airport is still busy after 12 o'clock.
Airport bus due to the problem of running routes, I am okay, there is an airport bus stop at a junction in front of my community, but the airport bus is a bus after all, and it needs to be detoured, and the departure interval of the airport bus, as well as the departure time of the airport bus in the early morning back to Shanghai, the airport bus is basically suspended. The main function of maglev is not to travel but to experience, I haven't taken it for ten years, and maglev only links Longyang Road to the airport, this section is now replaced by Metro Line 2.
Later, the taxi that linked Pudong Airport went back to ten years ago.
Due to the busy work schedule, I usually choose to depart on an early flight and return on a late flight, so the above travel methods are often not feasible on the round-trip route between me and the ordinary airport, and the only possibility is a taxi. Due to personal habits, I have not taken a traditional taxi in Shanghai for at least 5 years, think about ten years ago from Pudong Airport in the middle of the night out of the waiting queue area for half an hour of queuing situation now feel terrible, the mighty team, at a glance can not see the end, this is just one of them, I just used the navigation to calculate the taxi cost from my home to Pudong Airport T2 terminal without traffic jam under the premise of 125 yuan, I checked my round-trip travel records to Pudong Airport in the past year are basically between 90 and 95 yuan, and the gap will be even greater if it is a night pass.
Regarding the legitimacy of the operation of online car-hailing, I remember that I should have experienced a lot of ** in the past few years, and the relevant system should have been relatively sound and perfect, I really don't understand which angle and dimension of the policy introduced by the relevant departments this time, I can only explain and understand the decision that Wei is too drunk, and after waking up, it should be able to understand.