Photo shows people queuing for subway tickets at Beijing Railway Station

During summer vacation, subway ticket scalpers reappear in Beijing Railway Station. Yesterday, in Beijing Station North Square subway line 2 ticket booth, two men holding a stack of subway tickets, to pull luggage passengers to sell subway tickets for 5 yuan a ticket. In this regard, Beijing station duty master said that because there is no law enforcement power, can only use the way of inquiry to limit ticket touts.

Scalpers high price subway tickets

Yesterday noon, hot weather, carrying bags and bags of passengers out of the station, straight to the west side of the north square of the subway ticket gate, ticket passengers under the sun discharged about twenty or thirty meters long, the team has been queuing to the middle of the square.

"Want a ticket? 5 yuan each!" At this point, a man in a white T-shirt, with a backpack slung across his shoulder and his back to the ticket gate, stood in the middle of the ticket buying line and asked the passengers in line if they wanted tickets. The T-shirt man is about 30 years old, holding a handful of 5 yuan and 10 yuan in his left hand, and holding a stack of about 20 or 30 subway tickets in his right hand, he has been persuading passengers to give up the queue, "such a hot day, what line! 5 yuan a ticket, immediately into the station!"

As many passengers lined up to buy tickets, an older "scalper" also took the opportunity to sell subway tickets to passengers. The man was about 60 or 70 years old, wearing a straw hat and dark skin. The old bag in his left hand was filled with empty plastic bottles.

Hoarding at least 50 or 60 tickets

When asked about the authenticity of the tickets, the T-shirt man immediately took out a ticket to the reporter and said: "I have been selling here for many days, you can rest assured." As for where so many tickets come from in the hand, he pointed to the ticket booth behind, "I have bought from the ticket booth, can not be false, I will earn a running fee." In less than five minutes, the man sold more than 10 tickets.

The reporter found that as soon as the passenger departure peak passed, the two "scalpers" sat on the flower bed east of the ticket gate to rest, and when the queue for tickets was longer, they would go up to sell tickets. And whenever a patrol passed by, the T-shirt man immediately put the ticket in his pocket and left as if nothing had happened, while the old "scalpers" returned to their old business, picking up empty plastic bottles on the ground around the flower bed. For nearly three hours, the two "scalpers" did not go to the ticket booth to fill the new tickets. According to the reporter's rough statistics, the T-shirt man is hoarding at least 50 or 60 subway tickets, and the older "scalpers" also have 30 or 40.

Ticket more than 5 check the number of

It is reported that the subway Beijing station in order to control "scalpers", recently took conditional "limited purchase" measures, that is, one-time purchase of more than 5 tickets will be checked on the actual passenger. However, the station master admitted that because there is no law enforcement power, "we can only ask ticket buyers, is there really so many people, we have no power to really limit the purchase of tickets is the right of others."

For Beijing station passengers to buy tickets every day long queue phenomenon, the subway hotline staff said, currently can not solve the problem, Beijing station for the old station, large passenger flow, the station ticket office has been moved to the station outside the ticket, the implementation of single entry single out, mainly to limit passenger flow, relieve platform pressure.

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