gearing up for the World Expo. Even the colour scheme on the official
Chinese website has the blue hue. Really. Apparently, the $ spent
so far has exceeded the big O at the capital city by many many miles.
Can use the Star Trek's space travel distance tallying! Wonder who
has made all the $. Security is in heightened alert. Even at Hilton
today, I saw metal detector machines being setup at the entrance. O
yeah, an official special force policewoman was there to supervise the
setup.
All the trial runs of using the W.E. site so far were not promising.
But of course, the c0mM!e newspapers said no problem. Right. This
lady who does facial for iron-wife just said her cousin got stuck in
the subway entrance to the site for 3 hours; couldn't go in and
decided to turne back. He had one of the advance tickets as part of
the trial run participants. The Chine$e pavilion, need to book in
advance to get a ticket for entrance. Every time it started the
offering, 2 minutes later the tickets were gone. There were people
almost in riot because they couldn't get what they wanted.
Today, a trial run of 500K visitors had to dial down to 400K due to
crowd. I would stay away for the first 3 months until all the kinks
are worked out. O yeah, the subway that is suppose to be so
convenient for visitors... Well, that subway stop was skipped the
other day because it wasn't able to coup with the amount of
visitors... There were about 20,000 passengers. The train stopped at
another station and instructed passengers to the site to seek
alternative transportation. Good planning on the infrastructure...
Just like the new HongQiao Terminal 2 Departures... The highway going
into the airport went from 4 lanes to 1 lane. Traffic jam at 7am...
Friend of ours got stuck there for over 20 minutes because of this new
and improved traffic design. He almost missed the flight.
On the way home today, I saw the workers were out hanging "happy face"
plastic flowers on the trees along Nanjing Road. Yes, literally "Happy
Faces"!!!
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