Public Transport

Ferry subsidies to push rents up further

23 May 2013

I am a former resident of Cheung Chau. We moved there in the early 1980s as a low-rent refuge from a bear market so severe that even some stockbrokers, as I was then, had trouble affording Mid-...

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MTR faces HK$15m fine over Yuen Long derailment

18 May 2013

A recently revised fare-adjustment mechanism that penalises any suspension of services lasting more than eight hours made such a fine possible, Secretary for Transport and Housing Professor...

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DB residents on warpath over ferry fare rise

12 May 2013

Discovery Bay residents yesterday protested against a 9.5 per cent ferry fare increase approved by the Transport Department against their objections.

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Cyclists blame policy for keeping bikes off public transport

7 May 2013

Government policy that discourages cycling in Hong Kong is also keeping bicycles off public transport, cyclists say. Train and bus operators accept bicycles but impose strict size limits and while...

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Tram may suit Kai Tak better than monorail, operator says

29 Apr 2013

A proposal submitted by Veolia Transport is threatening to throw the fate of the much-touted monorail into doubt and could influence the government's plan to transform the old airport into the...

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We must break the culture of silence over sex crimes

25 Apr 2013

I became interested in sex crime in Hong Kong several months ago when a friend mentioned that it was often not officially documented here because of a desire to keep crime statistics low. Hong...

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Opinion

Howard Winn

Ferry companies shouldn't be subsidised while they burn dirty fuel

2:53AM

Shirley Yam

What were our top officials doing to let HKMEx fail?

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3:37AM

Essential survival tips for train commuters in Japan

A long-suffering Japanese commuter has written a book offering tips on how to survive the daily torment of the train journey to and from the office.

7:25AM

MTR must escape illogical fare policy

What the chart tells you is that fare levels on the Mass Transit Railway are almost exactly where they were 10 years ago, while the overall consumer price index is up 25 per cent over that period...

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Crazy thinking will damage MTR further down the line

The idea that fare increases should be denied if services are not up to a standard deemed satisfactory by some nebulous panel is alien to any rational concept of how a public service corporation...

2:21AM

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LEADER

Hong Kong needs to fast-track new rail construction

Thanks to our world-class Mass Transit Railway, hundreds of thousands of passengers can move across the city smoothly every day. Our roads have become less congested, and the duration of journeys...

2:40AM

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Video of Zhengzhou woman attacked on bus by older man wanting her seat goes viral

The man grabbed the woman’s hair, struck her and dragged her from the seat. Several passengers got up and separated them. The man quickly jumped out of the bus after the fight.

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Some KMB routes inefficient

KMB fully realises that it is not an ordinary business, but a company providing an essential public service to more than 2.5 million passengers per day.

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