It's a little hard to tell (apologies for the quality!), but all three of the buses pictured are of the same number. I'm not sure why Harbin's bus drivers think that they're all in a race with each other, but they do and they are and it's incredibly frustrating if it's a line that doesn't run many buses and you run up to your bus stop as three (sometimes four, once I even saw five) buses of that line drive away. It's then that you realize you either have a 45-minute wait before the next one (instead of, say, 10 minutes) or will have to pay 9 times or more for a taxi. Just one of the many wonderful aspects of life in Harbin!
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