Subway users feel crowds and pinch after fare hike

Passengers wait for trains on the platform at Sihui East station on Subway Line One in Beijing on the first morning after the fare hike on Dec 29, 2014. [Photo/IC]

There are 41 stations on the four lines, thus increasing the number of Beijing subways stations that run body search on passengers to 50.

A Chinese writer and scholar Wang Xiaodong said on his Sina Weibo account that he was frisked while entering Line 7 this morning, and he worried if this would be too time-consuming and keep commuters stuck in the morning.