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More trains will run to cope with holiday surge   2017-09-15

 

 

SHANGHAI Railway Bureau announced 67 more trains will be brought into service to handle a surge of passengers during the National Day holiday.

The bureau estimates over 25 million passengers from the Yangtze River Delta region will take trains during the holiday, up 8.2 percent on last year.

More than 11 million vehicles will use the city’s expressways during the holiday, a 12 percent rise over the 2016 holiday, Shanghai Road Administration Bureau said yesterday.