End of holiday travel rush starts with Lantern Festival

Global Times Monday 6th February, 2012

The final wave of the 40-day Spring Festival travel rush got underway Monday, with more than 235,000 commuters returning to Shanghai on Lantern Festival via rail or bus, said local transport authorities.The city's three railway stations took on most of the passengers, bringing more than 210,000 people, mostly from neighboring provinces, to the city...

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