You could live in China. This week, weather issues and transportation shortages are creating a tight squeeze on holiday travel. Four hundred thousand Chinese were stuck at the Guangzhou railway station earlier, where a full out stampede broke out when a train pulled up for loading.
CNN has some interesting video of the station (click on the ‘huge crush’ link), showing lines of police wrapped around a sea of people surging back and forth. You can see several poor souls falling over and getting swallowed by the tides of Chinese. Scary. And according to the article, this is half of what the volume was earlier last week.
Why hasn’t the Chinese government prepared for this spike in activity? Is it all really related to crummy weather? Either way, I’d hate to be in the middle of this debacle.
I’m never complaining when I have to stand on the subway again.