Monday, May 18, 2015

Transport in Anhui and comparison to transport in Singapore

Getting around in the city by bus
When you want to get to your hotel in downtown Hefei or when you want to get around in the city, the best mode of transport is to take a bus. The bus fare to reach anywhere in town is just 1CNY. However, there is no way you could find change in the bus. Therefore, you need to have your change ready. The busses sometimes are crowded. Therefore, you may need to wait a bit for a bus that has room. However, busses arrive at regular intervals.  There are quite a few bus terminals from where you could board a bus to get to your destination. They are cheap, comfortable and available at anytime of the day till almost 11.00 pm. Even to come to the airport on your return journey, you could take a bus easily and save. Taxis are also not expensive. It will cost you only 20CNY to get to airport by taxi.

Airports in Anhui
There are 50 Chinese domestic airports that are being served by the province’s air transport services. Most of these Flights originate from the provincial capital of Hefei. In addition to the domestic flights cities of Hefei and Huangshan are connected to Hong Kong and Macau with scheduled flights. There are also chartered flights operating from Anhui province to many other international destinations such as Singapore, Malaysia, Korea and Thailand. These flights are operated regularly. There are also the domestic airports within the province that are being served by airlines regularly. Anging, Wuhu, Fuyang and Bengbu are such airports.

Railway in Anhui
In 2011 two cities of Anhui province, Chuzhou and Bengbu have been connected to Beijing and Shanghai with high speed railways. Therefore, travelling time from these two major cities of China to the province of Anhui has come down to just a couple of hours. In addition to that there are passenger rail links that connect Nanjing and Wuhan. These also are operated with high speed railways. The conventional railway lines are there to connect most of the major cities of the province to one another. These also are used for the transport of goods as well as passengers.

Comparison to transport in Singapore
Singaporeans mainly nove around the city by bus and trains and taxis which can get us around any parts of singapore and in affordable prices. Singapore only needs one airport to cater for the whole country. buses can be seen regularly almost everywhere as well.
But transport in Anhui is much cheaper to serve the same purpose although the transport may not reach every single part of china. China also has high speed railways to get around quickly in such a huge country.

No comments:

Post a Comment