Should train fare be up or down on earth?

China is the liveliest place, the sports people most like to participate are not the Asian Games and the Olympic Games but the passenger transport during the spring festival. On January 19, the transport which will last for 40 days had started officially. According to the official prediction, the passenger flow volume will come to 2.85 billion yuan. During this period, the train ticket price will increase by 20% to 30%.

中国最热闹，民众参与度最高的运动不是亚运奥运而是春运，1月19号，为期40天的新一轮春运正式启动，据官方预测，今年的客流量将达到28.5亿人次。春运期间，火车票提价20%-30%。

春运拥挤依旧，火车票也紧张依旧，火车票要提价20%到30%，而调查显示，人们只能接受10%的提价幅度。春运第一天已经发生了北京购票者怒骂铁路部门和河南购票者裸奔示威的新闻，而经济学者薛兆丰在01年提出的火车票应该涨价的观点，也又一次和春运一起成为热门话题。火车票价是该涨还是该降呢？

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In my opinion:UP and DOWN both are no good , normal is better. Why?First, business is the business. It is obvious that there is no reason to DOWN it at such a good time to make money for the railway interests.Second, to UP it,at sucha time, is quite like " hitting sb. when he is down"!.

train tickets shouldn't be raised during the spring festival season.i claim that our administration should take mesure to curb the suring price of tikets.

come to the spring festival transportation, there is issure which we couldn't avoid, that is tikets scalpers. due to the shortage of train seats,they, by using of it,benifits a lot by selling a higher price. as some media reveal, certain scalpers, cooperating with the tikets sellers, gain tikets from them and sell to folks higher. after that, they share the profits and benifit mutually.

in order to wipe out these evils, our govenment has complemented the real-name policy, yet it seems useless.

i believe, the root of this cause is the big population of china and the shortage of transportation. im good to see that most of chinese people accept the sense of Only- one child policy,and China's construction of high-speed railway is booming.

The issue of train fare becomes heated again as the Spring Festival draws near. From my point of view, I think the train fare should remain what it is. It seems unreasonable neither it goes up or down. Actually I care more about why so many people have to travel long to be with their family in the Spring Festival. Yes, because their local places are not well-developed and people there lead a quite poor life. That's why those who hold their dreams firmly decide to leave their hometown and take a fortune for a better life in a better developed city. So when the biggest festival for family to get together comes, people studying or working far away home all crowd into the station hopefully and eagerly. A friend once told me that going back home during the Spring Festival was a nightmare for all people, no matter whether they themselves take a train home or their family or relatives do. Hope our goverment can do something to develop those poor places more quickly and end all's nightmare when the happiest season comes.

i think need to raise up. because the CPI of China is the highest by now in history.So if the tickets fare down, there will be sth wrong with it? I mean the system.

Why the price of train ticket can up? I think this is mistake. During the transport of the Spring Festival, Rail-industryjust supply service like ususlly, even not as good as usually. Why rise the price? Their action just like tobid up price. Why was their action allowed to do that?