Tag: Public transport

  • A Walk Along the Baiyangdian Lake in the Xiong’an New Area

    Detail of: Ye Wulin (China), 红星颂 (Ode to the Red Star), 2015. Seventy-five years ago, on 1 October 1949, Mao Zedong (1893–1976) announced the creation of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). It is important to note that the Communist Party of China (CPC) did not name the new state the Socialist Republic, but instead […]

  • A Month Traveling in China

    My Chinese-speaking wife and I recently traveled to nine different cities and towns in China over the course of a month, our fourth trip since 2005. We were also to go in 2020, but the covid lockdown canceled it. That year we could have booked a train ticket to Xinjiang and traveled around that province […]

  • Ticketing Woes

    What is it about government contracts that produces the worst results and poorest returns? Those clods behind such deals, notably in the poison chaliced field of public transport, seem so utterly incapable at even modest competence. In public transport, muddles, bungling and oh so much fumbling are common; the whole show comes into view when […]

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