First provide seats then discuss comfort! – Don’t leave citizens without a ticket home

Early on the morning of the 4th January, armed with a guitar and some songs, a group of students and workers all living away from home congregated at Taipei Railway Station. The song lyrics “Standing on the train to Taipei”, which echoed throughout the station, point to the difficult and tiresome journey people traveling home at peak periods must experience. The songs expressed how the people of Hualian often face transportation problems and are reliant on Taiwan Railways for mobility. Unfortunately, however, citizens often face great difficulty in purchasing tickets, not to mention trying to get a ‘seated’ ticket, and so it goes without saying that if one does succeed in snatching a ticket then you are considered as being incredibly lucky.

Those who fail to get their hands on a ticket must give up the idea of traveling home to visit their loved ones. The motivation for ‘civil media’ to hold a demonstration was to urge Taiwan Railways to improve the service by implementing an increase in ticket allocation on lines to Hualian, Taitung and the South to correspond with high ticket demand at peak traveling periods. These improvements to the service can hopefully resolve ticket problems that frequently arise around festivals and national vacations.

First provide seats then discuss comfort!
– Don’t leave citizens without a ticket home (by CJ civil media)

URL:

http://www.peopo.org/portal.php?op=viewPost&articleId=96658

(以下是中文對照)

先給座位，再談舒適，別讓東部人無票可歸 ( 公民行動影音紀錄資料庫 )(civil media)

4日早上花連與台東兩地出外打拼工作讀書的異鄉遊子，分別聚集在台北與花連火車站，背著吉他哼唱改編的歌曲；歌詞裡「站火車到台北」的語句；說出花東民眾 長期以來交通往來的問題；花東民眾與學生長期必需仰賴台鐵為首要交通工具，但在購買火車票時不但一票難求；更別說是想要有個坐位的車票，能搶下一張火車票 都算是幸運的了，搶不到票的學生與民眾只好放棄返鄉的念頭。 因此公民團體4日早上，特別提出希望台鐵現階段能改善提升北迴線、花東線、南迴線的運能、運量在使用率高的時段調整出更高的載客量；解決目前每逢週末將一 位難求的情況。

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