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Hong Kong’s MTR Corporation to ‘carefully consider’ opening part of scandal-hit Sha Tin-Central rail link by mid-2019
- Company plans to open some stations – Tai Wai, Hin Keng and Diamond Hill – on link before middle of next year, lawmaker Michael Tien says
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Hong Kong’s troubled MTR Corporation is considering partially opening the scandal-plagued Sha Tin to Central rail link by the middle of next year despite ongoing investigations into the structural safety of a key station.
According to lawmaker and former rail boss Michael Tien Puk-sun, the company planned to open some stations – Tai Wai, Hin Keng and Diamond Hill – along the “Tuen Ma line” of the long-delayed link before the middle of next year.
The line runs between the West Rail’s Tuen Mun terminal and Tai Wai on the Ma On Shan line via Hung Hom station.
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The stations form part of the Tai Wai to Hung Hom section, which was expected to open in the middle of 2019 after the original target of December this year was pushed back.
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Tien, a former chairman of rail operator KCR before it merged with the MTR Corp in 2007, said opening the three stations could divert busy passenger flows from Kowloon Tong to Diamond Hill.
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