日批在线视频_内射毛片内射国产夫妻_亚洲三级小视频_在线观看亚洲大片短视频_女性向h片资源在线观看_亚洲最大网

Chinadaily.com.cn sharing the Olympic spirit

Service sector gets in line
By Gu Wen (China Daily)
Updated: 2007-08-02 11:45

 

Beijing has stepped up its efforts to eradicate queue-jumping since February, when city officials made the 11th of every month a day of voluntarily waiting in line.

Tens of thousands of volunteers encouraged people to queue up to use public transport. Groups of volunteers formed lines at subway stations for commuters to follow their example. Five army generals distributed flyers to promote queuing at a bus stop in western Beijing, while an Olympic champion draped with ribbons bearing slogans thanked passengers for standing in line at a subway station in the east.

With officials hoping to clean up the city's image before the Olympics, posters bearing the number 11 (to signify two orderly queues) will soon be ubiquitous at all public places.

Of course, it would be better to have no queues in the first place.

Queues form because resources are limited, or as a result of inefficiency or disorganization.

However, for public transport operators, it's a matter of balancing different needs and considerations. Too many buses may create idle service capacity outside rush hours, meaning that it makes economic sense to have queues.

In 2005, a total of 18,530 buses transported 4.5 billion people around Beijing. Each on average moved 665 people around each day, including on holidays and weekends.

Another challenge is to make queuing more tolerable.

Beijing's subway system could improve its service by announcing waiting times for incoming trains, like other major cities in the world. Some forms of diversion may also be welcome, such as providing free newspapers.

Unfortunately, bus stops and subway stations are not the only culprits. Customers at banks, supermarket checkouts and hospitals also face long waiting times.

Some queuing can be seen as a symptom of bureaucratic red tape, as well as reflective of a poor service standard. For example, there is no arrangement for people to pay their utility bills by direct debit, so they have to visit their local bank to do so.

While acknowledging that pushing and shoving is rude and an affront to public order, Professor Guan Xinping, a sociologist at Nankai University, believes the "queuing" campaign will help the service sector become more efficient.

Guan has suggested a three-step cure to queue-jumping. First, public service needs to be improved; second, waiting in line should be made more pleasant; third, respect for public order should be promoted.

However, Guan stressed that reduced waiting times must be the ultimate goal.

Bus operators are now bent on introducing queuing discipline to 1,805 bus stops within the Fifth Ring Road. As such, they have already marked 5,500 waiting spaces and put up thousands of banners and billboards to remind passengers of the virtue of queuing up.

But how will they help shorten or eliminate lines? Maybe officials and volunteers can clock waiting times and make sure buses arrive on time, while trying to keep the queue orderly and calm.

Comments of the article(total ) Print This Article E-mail
PHOTO GALLERY
PHOTO COUNTDOWN
MOST VIEWED
OLYMPIAN DATABASE
主站蜘蛛池模板: 四虎黄色片 | 99久久视频 | 超碰成人免费 | 欧美精品一二 | 久久久久a | 国产一区二区在线免费观看 | 午夜影院h | 欧日韩在线视频 | 国产精品麻豆免费版 | av在线免费播放网址 | 精品久久久久久久久久久久久 | 欧美色偷偷 | 黄色一级免费视频 | 影音先锋在线视频观看 | 精品一区二区三区在线观看视频 | 男人的午夜天堂 | 一区二区视频在线播放 | 在线看片中文字幕 | 国产视频分类 | 成人免费精品动漫网站 | 欧美日韩字幕 | 午夜在线看 | 婷婷视频在线 | 国产激情免费 | 国产精品欧美综合 | 任你操在线观看 | 婷婷五月情| 亚洲第一色区 | 一区二区三区四区五区在线 | 成人日韩在线观看 | 国产麻豆精品久久一二三 | 香蕉国产在线 | 荷兰av| 日日夜夜撸撸 | 性福宝在线观看 | 高清国产一区二区 | 国产成人免费观看 | 91麻豆免费 | 国产在线久 | 六月色| 中文字幕不卡在线 |