悉尼轻轨动工影响生意 华裔店主：我们算幸运了

Sydney light rail impact business Chinese shopkeeper: we are lucky

据澳洲新闻网29日报道，澳大利亚悉尼轻轨动工后，沿线商户生意暴跌。一对华裔夫妇的小药店生意也受到了影响，不过他们表示，“我们算幸运的了”。

据悉，40年前，能(Nang)和她的丈夫吴金然(Jin Ran Wu，音译)在澳大利亚悉尼繁华的乔治街(George Street)开了一家小药店，在开张两年内就买下了这家店。

现在，由于新轻轨线动工，这条曾经繁华的道路已被栅栏围起来，客流量也大大减少，吴氏夫妇意识到了买下药店的他们之前有多么幸运。

吴女士说：“我们很幸运，没有几个人像我们这么幸运，比如说Ming Hoi餐厅，他们每天都工作，但他们付不起房租、工资，承担不起顾客减少。”

她说，刚开始他们夫妇以每周120澳元的租金租了这间店，后来他们在1980年花了8.5万澳元买下他们的店铺，而现在，类似的店铺每周的租金要高达5000澳元。

但拥有店面并不代表他们的生意没有受到影响，这只是意味着他们能够生存下去。

“大多时候我们的利润减少了四分之三，轻轨开始建到我们这边的时候，利润少了一半，而现在利润只剩四分之一了，”吴女士说道。

他们的收入减少意味着这对夫妇不得不减少员工，自己在药房承担更多的轮班。

这条新轻轨线从环形码头通往Randwick和Kingsford，两年多前就开始动工了，现在地处CBD的乔治街只有前两个路段向行人开放。

根据新州交通局的数据，Wu’s Pharmacy门外的路段，即Hay St与Goulburn St之间的路段，计划于2017年7月14日竣工，然而现在，负责这一21亿元项目的集团却无法给出确切的完工日期。

“大家都说，能在2019年完工就万事大吉了，”吴女士说。

药房旁边的Leung Wai Kee佛教工艺与线香贸易公司的经理维基?吴(Vicky Wu)也有类似的看法。

“市府去年6月左右给我们发了关于圣诞节前道路通车的信函，但在那之后，我们又在11月左右收到了另一封信函，信中说公路会在今年3月左右通车。”

“但我觉得这是不可能的，”她称。

她表示，乔治街的交通问题让她的生意不得不承受打击。“从轻轨动工开始，我们的收入下降了一半，”她说道。“顾客告诉我们说，他们以为我们的店关门了，因为路被封住了，他们从Market City看不到商店的招牌和任何东西。”

尽管新州州长贝姬莲之前表示，等到项目竣工，客流量会“一飞冲天”，但维基担心，街道上有限的停车空间可能让她的很多客户无法运输易碎的大件商品。

来源：人民网

Sydney light rail impact business Chinese shopkeeper: we are lucky

According to the Australian News Network 29 reports, after the movement of Sydney light rail in Australia, businesses along the line slumped. The small drugstore business of a Chinese couple was also affected, but they said, "we are lucky."

It is reported that 40 years ago, Nang and her husband Wu Jinran (Jin Ran Wu) opened a small drugstore in the bustling George street, Sydney, Australia, and bought the store within two years of opening up.

Start now, because the new light rail line, the once prosperous road has been fenced, traffic is also greatly reduced, Wu couple realized that they had bought the drugstore how lucky.

Ms. Wu said, "we are lucky that few people are as lucky as we are. For example, Ming Hoi restaurant, they work every day, but they can't afford rent, wages, and can't afford to reduce customers."

She said that at the very beginning, the couple rented the store at the rent of 120 Australian dollars per week, then they spent 85 thousand Australian dollars to buy their store in 1980, but now the similar shop has a rental rate of 5000 Australian dollars per week.

But having a store does not mean that their business is not affected, which means they can survive.

"Most of the time, our profits decreased by 3/4. When the light rail started to build on our side, the profit was half less than that, and now the profit is only 1/4," said Ms. Wu.

Their decrease in income means that the couple have to reduce their employees and take more shifts in the pharmacy.

The new light rail line started from the circular wharf to Randwick and Kingsford. It started construction more than two years ago. Now, the George Street on CBD is only open to pedestrians in the first two sections.

According to the data of new State Transportation Bureau, the section between Wu s Pharmacy outside the road, namely Hay St and Goulburn St, is scheduled for completion in July 14, 2017, but now, the group responsible for the 2 billion 100 million yuan project can not give the exact completion date.

"Everyone said, can be completed in 2019 will Everything will be fine.," Ms. Wu said.

Next to the Leung Wai Kee pharmacy technology and trade company of the Buddhist incense manager Wu (Vicky Wu) Vicky? Have similar views.

"The municipal government sent us a letter about the opening of the road before Christmas last June, but after that, we received another letter about November, and the letter said that the road will be opened to traffic around March this year.

"But I don't think it's possible," she said.

She says the traffic problems on George street have made her business hit. "From the start of the light rail, our income has fallen by half," she said. "Customers told us that they thought our store was closed, because the road was blocked, and they could not see shop signs and anything from Market City."

Although before the new governor Becky Lian said, wait until the project is completed, traffic will soar, but Vicki worry, limited parking space on the street may make many of her clients can not transport fragile items.

Source: People's network