I guess people are tired of bombings, shooting, biased narratives, Lies, etc.

@chuggs maybe bc its lots of people in hong kong

and something typical about people pushing others out of the way just to be first

How come the B1M always pins your comments?

For those who think trains are the magical answer to traffic congestion.... Look at all those people crammed onto the miserable trains! Mass transportation = Socialist transportation!

I hope the people working on the Groninger Ringweg and the Groningen Hoofdstation will feel such pride when they are done too. They're turning a big fat eyesore that is a inner city highway into a tunnelled under park, and similarly the old railyard in the city centre is being turned into a new area for people to live and work with good direct connections to the rest of town via the now too small trainstation

You should be proud. The things you build are incredible, and they shape the very world around us.

​@@vnixned2 I bet they are. I used to be a paramedic. One day, I had to transport an old man to his final hospice.He asked us if we could take a detour because he wanted to see a certain building for the last time, it was one of the buildings you'll find on any PR website about that city. Not a railway station but a hall used for congresses, fairs, concerts etc. It had been built around 50 years before that day, and he had been one of the construction workers on it. Even after 50 years, he was proud to have been a part of it and wanted it to be the last thing he saw on his last ride across the city.

@@strangelic4234 Respect, that is such a moving story, I'm happy you were able to make the old man's last ride such a memorable one for him. I'm sure he appreciated what you did for him, paramedics huh, not just healthy for the body but great for the mind and soul as well. Thank you for sharing Strangelic.

Regarding the SCL (Shatin Central Link), the enthusiasm and hype was absolutely reasonable. This project has plagued the news for a decade, and a lot of people who travel to and fro New Territories/Kowloon and Hong Kong Island genuinely want to see this get done. It would reduce an incredible amount of congestion on the Cross Harbor Tunnel by allowing convenient access between Hung Hom and the CBD, drastically reducing the passengers taking buses or taxis across the tunnel. There’s also a lot of historical background and cultural changes as a result of this project, because of how long this has gone on for. The eastern extension of the West Rail Line (Now the Western part of the Tuen Ma Line) was already preparing for SCL. The Exhibition Centre station uncovered historical artifacts from World War 2 during construction. We said goodbye to trains that have operated for decades on this line. The new East Rail Line is a huge deal for many people, including myself. I’m really happy MTR never gave up on this project.

what happened to him?

@@lshanny Nothing has happened to him.

@@StrangerHappened lmao ok jacques left a typical anti china comment then. assuming the guy got disappeared in the night or shunned when nothing like that happened at all. pretty effective propaganda tbh, since he already has 120 upvotes with zero proof.

@@StrangerHappened there could be a chance he's living under threat everyday or went through immense stress due to this. Whistleblowing is simply not taken in a fair light wherever governance is favoring the government.

What was the treatment of him afterwards?

East rail is still my favourite

Well said! I am also here to learn how to invest after listening to a lady on tv talk about the importance of investing and how she made 7 figure in 3 month, somehow the video taught me nothing and left me even more confused, I'm a newbie and I'm open to ideas on how to invest for retirement

@@rajeshupadhyay5683Think long term, personally i ventured into the market so i won’t be stranded after i retire. A colleague of mine introduced me to CFA " Priscilla Dearmin-Turner " who drew out retirement plans and they all aligned with what i wanted and had to pick one plan and with her exit and entry strategies on commodities , securities and digital assets, my portfolio has really been diversified with good ROI. I am really impressed by how much i have achieved

Financial management is a crucial topic that most tend to shy away from, and ends up haunting them in the near future

Investment now will be wise but the truth is investing on your own will be a high risk. I think it will be best to get a professional👌

Dan, thank you for your perspective. These issues are something I wouldn't expect in such a beautiful city!

The saddest part is that the Chinese Communist Party has decided to make HK as lame and oppressive as the other Chinese cities and erasing the HK mini-constitution.

tbf, the MTR is what makes the govt so much money, they deserve to have some back right?

That's true, but if they make so much money (owing much to pro-railway policy of the government) and are so important to people's lives, and yet so many scandals that harm the company's performance and reputation are disclosed, isn't it reasonable for the public to be furious?

@@jackykwok2376 Doubtfully unacceptable, however why does the Judiciary/ Dept of Justice sue Asian Leighton BD Constructing firm breached. 123 Buildings Ordinance , allowing unlimited extension at court? otherwise there may be protection from those billionaire capitalist

Especially in a country with a totalitarian government.

construction with (communist) chinese characteristics

Chinese Government will make these people disappear.

Two of the comments removed... UKposts censorship clowns bending a knee to China 🤷

@@ericalorraine7943lookup Priscilla Dearmin-Turner, this is her name online, she's the real investment prodigy since the crash and have help me recovered my loses

Cross harbour link sure is convenient if you want to get to Hong Kong island, but reducing the cart length from 12 to 9 is a massive yikes. And the frequencies are frankly quite low compared to a typical kwun tong line or tsuen wan line, might just be a result of standing in the summer heat with no AC stations of east rail line haha

@@mcwatcher7790 I feel that the East Rail Line with full 9 car operation can handle the demand. And they do have more new trains yet to enter service.

when it comes to public transit you almost always have either buses or rail, which can take the form of a subway, tram/streetcar or LRT cable cars aren't usually used unless there's very hilly terrain and monorails are impractical, however i think there are some in a few places rail has proven time and time again to be better than buses in a lot of places so yes it's usually the better way to go when making transit, only problem is it's much more expensive so most cities in the us have very few rail lines if any at all

My Allah!

LOL. How did that tiny section cost $11b? Obviously the contractors were overpaid. No matter how difficult the construction was, it was not worth $11b. HK Gov and MTR could simply hire a Chinese construction companies to do it at a much cheaper cost, but they chose not to.

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I ❤ Allah.

wow , awesome , i am envious In Australia we have highways with tolls , i know some truck drivers spend AUD $ 2000 per week on tolls which is insane

That’s fantastic more countries to be doing this and take more car’s of the road to reduce congestion and pollution….

Hong Kong’s unique transportation solutions are definitely affected by the difficult geography. It’s awesome not having to worry about where to park your car.

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We will had sit on buses, stuck in traffic.

U should Thanks your daddy China

ye we know...white tech is amazing...

@@willblack8575 funny now the Elizebeth line is run by Hong Kong MTR

@@willblack8575 true dat

The same colonial government has churned out such poor city design like TuenMun and Tung Chung, and many districts still super relying on the CBD, greatly limited the growing capacity of the outliers, and inevitably, causing traffic burden on CBD and still largely to these days, citizens living on outlying districts, have to frequent CBD to work and for various purposes, and often travel long distances and hours, often reaching homes on connecting travel means, like light rail, and some more walking Hong Kong has already outgrown colonial design, but the handover is just 25 years ago

@@willblack8575 let’s praise the colonial government

Driving is painful in Hong Kong because of the traffic and the 115% taxation on private cars makes it a luxury item unlike other countries.

@@BasedApricot yes that because there's too many cars, the government is forcing people to use public transport or else the traffic problems will just worsen

Yeah it's almost like major cities never thought about building subways. Not London, not Paris. They'd never think of something as radical as building a subway in New York let alone Washington DC.

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@@BasedApricot Chad hongkong

cuz it took like alot of years for it to finally open

They’re not the worst ones… I’ve heard some Japanese illegally entered forbidden areas standing on Shinkansen rails

it still worries us that they gave the whole project to just one single construction company and that such a huge structural integrity problem was found at a station that would involve usage by millions of people a day. look at how many people pass through the admiralty station and look at how many people are on the train. If a station like this collapsed there's literally no saving the people inside.

As always, "Trains bad", "public transport bad"

Yeah, those pesky old bombs are often a problem in HK!

Were there any corpses around?

So HK is no longer chinese then... as in... the identity of chinese is also gone too ? Ancient villages that could've turned and over turned the fights.... So yeh... go right ahead and claim it. Why not, right ? And no media reported this either.

The infrastructure is the bright side. The dark side is the fact that it’s driven by overcrowding and a general inability to afford housing. The government is becoming more aggressive in supplying affordable housing, but 40 years of unchecked capitalism bleeding all the housing into the investor class is a huge hurdle to surmount and overcome.

Yes, also, the biggest obstacle to installing platform gates was the inconsistent door spacing between old and new trains. Still, a rope-based barrier system could have been done like some stations in Japan and Korea.

@@canto_v12 Why install a rope based barrier when MTR can install proper platform gates anyway? The mixed fleet operation period was only temporary.

@@squidgame2021 cheaper and doesn’t require re-engineering the HVAC.

@@canto_v12 Fair, but MTR would have replaced those systems anyway because they are old.

if you compare it to that of places like Japan, yes it's cheap by comparison. Other than that most of those are not true, MTR in Hong Kong is definitely no efficient by design and the way it works or maintained, very aged in terms of hardware and network, a ridiculous pricing system that's far from being affordable

@@FenixYuk MTR is not affordable? Have you been on any other transit system outside Asia?

To be fair, few will understand the geographical challenges of commuting in Hong Kong. You and I know it by heart but nobody builds major cities on a couple of steep rocky islands. HK is unique in that regard, and it constrains the alignment of transportation corridors.

Thank you so much! 🙌

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Yeah it's almost like having a system that's 40 something years old is better than a century old system

@@DavidJohnson-dp4vv Have you visited London Underground?

@@Peichen01 and is it as well maintained as mtr?

@@DavidJohnson-dp4vv Yes. The Underground feels surprisingly new even at 150 years old

Haha, it's a pretty cool train in fairness. We all got up at 5:30am to see the new Battersea tube station open in London.

It’s not mundane if it drives us wild!

Love HK very much.

Yes, I loved our layover hotel there at the Intercontinental Hotel next door to the Civic Central downtown looking at the Harbour Area. I always loved looking at the skyline of the other buildings especially at night when the lights of the buildings light up the Harbour Area!! Nice!

Same here. How did what happen? Do you mean this MTR project or this channel in itself?

We appreciate your hard work!

Hopefully the new train control system will keep the passengers moving more efficiently.

Hong Kong, and in fact many other places, are no stranger to this construction method. This is like their 4th tunnel built this way. But what’s significant is that each successive tunnel is harder because it has to pass the existing tunnels and buildings nearby. In this case two other tunnels, one of which belongs to another MTR line and the other for road traffic. You cannot even come close to endangering the other tunnels by disturbing the soil. That’s why this tunnel project was so difficult, despite its small scale in relation to the rest of the rail network.

@@canto_v12 Prefab is the future of nuclear power stations. You order 50 nuclear power plants to build everything in duplicate, have it shipped to site and assembled. With the power plants built in duplicates you can build a decommissioning plant that's automated to disassemble parts with programed robots. What drives up nuclear power plant construction costs is how everything is custom built and outdated bureaucracy regulations. Soon we'll have 100 year old nuclear power regulations meant for old reactors from the 1960s. We'll be applying 1960s fission reactor rules to fusion power plants built in the 2060s.

Have you explored the hiking trails?

Agree with you! ....The US infrastructure is literally a third world axis

London underground: the surface of the Sun

I know right? It's already incredible.

I assure you it needs it - yes, it's a pretty large system for the size of the territory with a high frequency of service, but the ridership numbers are insane. The main thing this tunnel does is make it possible for people living close to the east rail line to get to the island without changing trains. Kowloon Tong was always a nightmare at busy times due to all the transfer traffic.

As someone who is from HK I could tell you that it definitely needs to upgrade its capacity as it is super crowded even in off-peak hours...

I promise this was absolutely necessary. Most hkers don't have cars and the current network in particular the Tsuen Wan harbour crossing was bursting at the seams. In a lot of places the public transport is an additional option, in Hong Kong it IS the transport.

Well... visit Admiralty Station at 8:00am or 6:00pm and you'll see that an upgrade is definitely needed! Admiralty Station, Prince Edward Station, Kowloon Tong Station and Kowloon Bay Station are all nightmares at peak hour.

All MTR escalators are very fast to deliver and disperse the crowded passengers as soon as possible.

To set the record straight, you can live in a US style house but by Hong kong standards u’ll be in the middle of nowhere

@@lamchunting856 affordable for a working class family ?

@@johnduncan5117 just found a 380 sq ft "house" for 127000 USD in Yuen Long district using 28Hse app. does that count?

@@gepe7176 35 square meters ? not sure it can really qualify as adequate outside of somewhere like HK. I mean sure it's better than a lot of people in HK have, but 35 square meters for a family is definitely not US size. Here in France a family of 4 would usually have around 60 at the absolute minimum. Most would be in apartments of 75 or more. This is not the point though. My point is that in HK right now people are living in tin cans in unsafe buildings, sharing communal bathrooms and kitchens. Whole families. In one of the richest places on earth. There are of course social problems everywhere. Don't get me wrong. But I think from an outsider's perspective, HK's priority seems to be providing better accommodations for the working classes.

@@johnduncan5117 Agree, but I don't think it will ever get fixed because HK just doesn't have enough space. It's basically a physics problem. If an average family apartment was 75 sq meters in HK, the city wouldn't look like HK anymore, it would be a very different place. Also living in small spaces is not as bad as you think if you are used to it. It has advantages as well such as convenience and proximity to everything. I live in 15 sq meter place now right in downtown, and at least for me it's better than living in a 75 sq m place if I have to drive every day. But I agree that the government should take care of those extreme cases where whole families live in 20 sq meters or something.

Most engineering marvel projects in Hong Kong were made during the British time tho...

The US is even more behind because railways aren't nationalized. Even if they aren't, it should be much easier than right now, people are just being difficult. Kind of annoying because they usually overlap someone's land or go on or through ruff terrain (mountains) which makes it really hard and expensive

@@elongatedshrew5902 The US rail system is optimized for freight, not people, and it's very good at what it does. With long distances between most parts of the country, flying makes more sense to move people. But that's the great thing about the US: We let markets decide, instead of government bureaucrats.

@@wallyballou7417 yes I agree and know. I wish there could be much more rails to transport people even though freight rail is doing very well and I love that, it's great and very efficient. It would also be efficient and good if we could get some high-speed rail but with everyone owning the necessary land for the rail it's very hard to get ahold of it.

@@wallyballou7417 The free market is trashing the environment.

Came here to say this!

Lmao NYC and London have nothing on several Asian systems.

You need to travel more. London Tube is nothing compared to Hong Kong's and quite a few other Asian's cities'. Fun fact: London Tube was so comparably inefficient that they hired consultants from Hong Kong MTR to advise them how to run and manage the system more efficiently for two of their lines. NYC subway is even worse. It's considered pretty third-world now - slow, loud, dirty and not very reliable.

Not really

Not really, when it posts record revenue every year and still increases it's fare, and somehow the service keep getting worse. The shatin central link had encountered major technical problem the first week of its opening, nut to mention it was delayed for a few years to begin with.

@@sbeve7445 MTR fares have not risen since the 2019 fare increase and has actually fallen in 2021. They also provide fare rebates for a long time after any fare increase, as long as you use Octopus which is basically everyone.

@@sbeve7445 how is it getting worse? Sure it's more crowded than before but that proves how vital the MTR is for commuters. The fares haven't increased for ages already and come on, it is still amongst the cheapest in the world. The Sha Tin Central link is amongst the most difficult and complex projects they've ever undertaken. Over budget and delays are not uncommon in any construction project. Go and try the London underground, the Paris metro and New York underground so then you will appreciate how great the MTR really is.

@@alectang1614 Major technical issue causing breakdown on the 3rd or 4th day of opening of the cross harbour extension, 2 train crashes (1 during testing and 1 during actual operation at hong hum station) due to poor material and improper signalling, more and more frequent breakdown and idiotic decisions (like shortening east rail line's train from 12 to 9, while still keeping first class, when the entire line is incredibly congested and people having to wait for 2 trains to come). They also don't really spend their money very wisely, which is even more infurating because MTR is also land owners, the more they fuck up, the more people have to pay up for the housing. For instance. They wanted to upgrade the signalling on the Tsuen Wan line and Kung Tong line, but because of that train crash, it was never put into service (Which I guess is good, but they basically wasted millions of dollars). Like fuck me I live in Toronto right now, sure the subway is not as clean / nice as MTR, but at least it is mostly punctual, trains don't crash into each other, and GO train as a whole is really nicely operated. MTR start going downhill once it merged with KCR. Because it no longer had any competition and incentive to improve. Instead, now people have to live with it. I'm not even going to talk about the protest situations, or the whole construction scandal that the video already mentioned. At least currently, Hong Kong's bus route are actually also really competitive. The double deckers are nice and comfortable and mostly safe, with much more competitive price.

And there's a metro under construction there right now. In fact the first 3 lines are operational

@@doge.a.cat2002 Yeah but that isn't helping... Mumbai needs something revolutionary. It's a really unique city with a forest in between and a peninsular shape and hence solutions like metro that work for Delhi won't work as effectively here- Mumbai needs to develop its own solutions.

14 lines are under construction including a bullet train line with only 2 lines that are operating and a new line operation expected this year and the bullet train line expected in 2028