The Spring Festival is coming as scheduled, and the rush to buy train tickets has set off again. This annual tradition of "train tickets are hard to buy" seems to be even more eye-catching this year, becoming a hot topic on social **. But what is it about these hard-hitting tickets that puts the spotlight on them?
On an ordinary day, we are accustomed to watching the train slowly enter the platform, carrying the expectant passengers on their journey. But when it comes to the Spring Festival season, this bland picture is stimulated with great energy. The Spring Festival, a moment that carries the laughter and longing of millions of families, has become synonymous with selling out tickets.
Behind all this, passengers are flocking to the ticket windows and ** platforms, hoping to catch the last train home before the Spring Festival. This enthusiasm for buying tickets can be described as an annual "train ticket rush frenzy".
The response of the railway authorities seems to be somewhat helpless, saying that the full capacity is currently in operation, but it is still unable to meet the influx of passengers to buy tickets in a short period of time. This makes many people puzzled, why is there still a phenomenon of "some trains are on sale in seconds" nine days before the Spring Festival?
The relevant departments explained that this year's Spring Festival transportation is the first normalized Spring Festival, and passengers' willingness to travel is becoming more and more intense, while railway capacity and ticketing are relatively limited, resulting in a sharp collision of supply and demand contradictions. As a result, those passengers who could not buy tickets during the peak period became a unique group of people who "have no tickets to find" during the Spring Festival.
This unique phenomenon of the Spring Festival has also been taken advantage of by some lawbreakers to increase the price of tickets by means such as **, ticket grabbing, and ticket hoarding. This adds fuel to the fire, making already scarce tickets even harder to find.
During the peak period of the Spring Festival, the railway passenger flow is concentrated and unbalanced, which makes the railway department quite difficult in the allocation of capacity. They said that even if they put in full capacity, it will be difficult to fully meet the demand for tickets during peak periods, because it is difficult for any means of transportation to prepare capacity according to the maximum passenger flow, which will only cause a huge waste of capacity resources in normal times.
The railway department has provided some suggestions for this, suggesting that the majority of passengers choose official channels to purchase tickets, make full use of the new features to improve the success rate of ticket purchase, and try to buy connecting tickets. At the same time, it is also advisable to choose off-peak travel during peak hours, or consider other modes of transportation.
In general, it is no accident that train tickets for the Spring Festival are difficult to buy, but behind the confrontation between passengers' enthusiastic willingness to travel and limited capacity. Perhaps, we can feel people's desire for reunion and the unique charm of the Spring Festival from this phenomenon. And those who fail to buy their favorite tickets in time may also find a pleasant return journey in a different means of transportation.