Category: Public Transport
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There’s not too much wrong with Hong Kong International Airport. Apart from the North Satellite Concourse, that is. It was opened more than 5 years ago (for smaller planes such as the Airbus A320 / A321), and yet the only way to get there (or back) is by taking a shuttle bus across the apron….…
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The MTR have started painting feet on the escalators to show passengers where to stand (yes, really), and it seems that they are now encouraging people to stand still rather than walking up or down in that reckless way favoured by some: Smiley®World Character dressed as Penguin to Promote Escalator Safety MTR cares about your…
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They print so many stupid letters in the SCMP, but this one is spectacular: Combine two MTR rail lines There has been much discussion (or rather negative feedback) from East Rail Line passengers after the West Rail Line was extended to Tsim Sha Tsui East while the East Rail Line now terminates at Hung Hom.…
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Today West Rail is extended, through the new Austin station and the existing East Tsim Sha Tsui station, to terminate at Hung Hom, where it finally links up with East Rail (the original KCR line from Kowloon to the border with mainland China). This means that East Rail trains have stopped running to East Tsim…
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Picture the scene: it’s raining and you are looking for a taxi. There’s one with the “Taxi” light on. You get closer and notice that it’s “out of service”. Maybe the driver is waiting to pick up a passenger who has made a telephone booking; or it could be that he is only interested in…
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Last week the SCMP had two stories about the so-called "Sha Tin to Central link", the new rail line being built by the MTR (MTR Corp submits new rail plan and vows to minimise disruption. When completed the 17km extension will not only give commuters in Ma On Shan and Sha Tin a direct rail…
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The government has given the go-ahead for the so-called "Sha Tin to Central Link". When this was first announced it was going to be a new railway line from Tai Wai (in Sha Tin district), via Hung Hom, to Central. You might not realize this from newspaper reports, but it has become two separate extensions…
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Today is Rail Merger Day. The government has engineered a deal whereby the MTR (which used to be government-owned but is now a public company, albeit still controlled by the government), will operate the railway services and manage the property of the KCR (which is still government-owned). That means that all the rail services in…
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Another one of those surveys that seem to work wonders in getting free publicity. It was in Friday’s Independent London’s public transport is world’s best (no, really) and Sunday’s SCMP London ranked above HK in transport poll as well. A survey that voted London as having the best public transport system in the world has been greeted with…
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It’s a common sight to see couriers waiting by the exit gates at MTR stations with a parcel or some documents. They hand the items over to someone standing the other side of the gates, and go back on to the MTR. Maybe they then pick something else and take that to another station, and…
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