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I live in Hong kong
@RMTransit can you mention Tai Po cuz I lived there for my entire childhood please
I take this everyday for school it’s so cool to see people cover this (sorry for my bad english)
This has been an accurate and informative video about the MTR. Thanks. Some of the cross transfer platforms arrangements are really necessary during the rush hour here. I have seen the massive interchange platform at Admiralty more than half full during crunch times. Also, here are a couple of additions for those interested…1. on the Airport Express or the Tung Chung line, when crossing the Tsing Ma bridge, the train is running THROUGH the bridge and, as a passenger, you may look down at the window and see right down to the sea below, 2. at Shatin station, some of the marble or stonework of the station contains fossils that someone found out (see how many you can find), 3. I’ve heard of commuters wanting to travel from Yau Ma Tei heading to Central to take the train IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION OF TRAVEL just get on the train at Prince Edward to go back to Central. By the way, I live near the bridge stubs you mentioned so thanks for letting me know what they are/were.
Because HK is such a small place, the MTR need invest comparatively little in maintenance and upkeep costs with what they milk from the population every day. They make SO MUCH money they are investing it all throughout China and spend it frivolously on unnecessary projects. My wifes old colleague at one time actually worked for a department that was responsible for spending money. They had to actively find things to dump money in supposedly to improve service or customer relations and satisfaction. However, rather than having to hold back on expenditures, they practically had to fill spending quota's. That's how ridiculous it is.
I have been living in Hong Kong since I was born and you somehow knows more about the MTR than I do
The way the only people commenting are people from HK because we get mentioned rarely in media so we get so excited to watch videos about ourselves lmao
Hey mom, I made it to a video
Everything has dark past, that’s including MTR. The story happened in 2019.8.31
I have lived in hong kong for almost 10 years, MTR is still my favourite transportation. It is absolutely convenient and efficient. Every time I wait for the train not less than 5mins except some technical problems but not often happen.
🇬🇧🤝🇭🇰
As a Hongkonger, MTR was once wonderful but now become an absolute nightmare
The MTR also has TV included in newer trains, playing news reports. The Ma On Shan line was once 4 cars but then added to 8 cars due to the Tun Ma line.
They almost built residential buildings on top of every single train station in Hong Kong
The Disneyland Resort Lines train is old and the trains are modified so that they are automatic
The double decker tram system is not built by the same company, they are slow and does not include air conditioning on most trams and can only be found at Hong Kong Island.
The train length of the East Rail Line has shrunk from 12 cars to 9 cars after the expand to Admiralty
除左車費貴到痴線，經常信號故障同埋間唔中出軌甩車門之外，港鐵無可挑剔
Best of the best public transport, the new line and interchange platform at Hung Hum just unbeatable and more important, it is safe u like other cities in the world..
Its interesting to see the MTR system being explained since when I was in HK, I never realized how great the system is, and how the it got a different view on how the West Kowloon station without the political issues involved.
I remember as a kid, there were only a few stations on each line and there weren't even that many lines or extensions at all yet was still extremely easy to get by traveling from the new territories to the industrial areas.
屯馬開通真的很興奮
The phrase of the opening of the Tuen Ma Line
Hong Koner AND Londoner here. I think the real difference between HK and the rest of the world's systems is that the MTR was not only built from scratch after experiences elsewhere as well as they genuinely build into the middle of nowhere, build a housing complex and mall to compensate the cost and then towns sprall up around the station. Not to also mention while the high population density brings unique stresses and challenges, the metro system gets pushed to run at a very high efficiency in a way that while you need special maintanence strategies, you are running at a much lower cost per unit person transported over shorter distances compared to other cities like London or New York. The newer lines in London like the Jubilee are pretty good for what they are considering land ownership issues. Hong Kong just has that kind of quality across almost 100% of their system coz it's all new. It makes me wonder time and time again, since the TfL is a publically ran company, technically they can use similar profit models like Hong Kong, albeit it's kinda late now that central London is all built up and they can't really make that much profit off the Oystercard system like Octopus in Hong Kong does.
Hey Reese, figure that since you have the Lego Crocodile locomotive on your desk…the MTR store in Hong Kong recently released a commemorative "brick based construction toy" set (Royal Toys City Stories RT47) based on the recently retired Metro Cammell MLR train (they ran on the East Rail line from 1998 until 2022). It's not every day you can buy an official sanctioned set for a mass transit vehicle.
When there wasn't covid, KTT could even run straight to Beijing or Shanghai, that was so convenient for those railway fans. But MTR is about to discard the KTT ,because the high speed railway (bullet train, which is called by some people) is started to use in 2018, and the covid stopped the offline communication between HK and mainlan China, it doesn't have advantage of speed or distance or anything else. so it is kind of sad for those generation z.
BTW, TOD was so effective at earning money but makes Hong Kong house price high like Qomolangma, Chinese central government don't permit the subway or metro enterprise do TOD in mainland China
I don't think the KTT locomotives ever belonged to SBB, they were built for the KCR to the same design.