In southwest China's Chongqing, more subway lines are travelling out to the rural areas around the city, (especial) Line 4. Known the"Vegetable Basket Line", Line 4 connects the city's northeast Shichuan town with the city center. Since its opening in2022, it (offer) local farmers near the town more ways to sell their vegetables. The vegetables used to be cheap in the town, but now they can (sell) at higher prices in the city.
Every morning around 6 o'clock, the Shichuan town station is (crowd) with farmers. They carry baskets filled with fresh vegetables on their (back), or use shoulder poles (杆 ) to carry the baskets. The station used to open at 6:15 am. Now it(open) five minutes earlier| every day because the workers don't want the farmers to wait outside for too long.
In Chongqing, people are over the age of 65 can take the subway for free. The opening of this subway line helps the elderly not only save money but also save time. According to an elderly couple, it used to take (they) more than one hour to reach the city center as they had to take several buses. Now, by taking the subway, they can get there in less than 30 minutes. And they can sell all their vegetables in less than three hours arriving at the market.
