… don’t bother looking, you’ll never find them. Or at least, not on the Beijing subway system.
I’m not a frequent traveller on the Beijng underground, but if one does at rush hour, they would often be faced with a long queue (20+ people) at a single ticket office before they board. Why there are no dispensation machines baffles me – it seems that things in China are frequently designed to be as inefficient as humanely possible. Though to give some credit in this regard, at least the ticket office is inside the station!
Since only one window was open anyways, I don’t see how the introduction of a machine would increase unemployment. If anything, someone would have to be employed to manufacture the machine!
All this is yet another sign that China still has some distance to go before it achieves the efficiency often attributed to Switzerland or Germany.
