emergency: Airport Express breakdown on 14Oct
Oct 13, 2016, 9:34 pm
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emergency: Airport Express breakdown on 14Oct
In Town Check-In suspended
Replacement buses provided.
http://www.mtr.com.hk/alert/alert_simpletxt_title.html
+A free MTR shuttle bus service is operating between Hong Kong Station, Kowloon Station & Tsing Yi Station and Airport Station; between Hong Kong Station, Kowloon Station, Tsing Yi Station & Airport Station and AsiaWorld-Expo Station; between AsiaWorld-Expo Station and Tung Chung Station; or please consider using other transport.
Crosspost in CX forum today
Replacement buses provided.
http://www.mtr.com.hk/alert/alert_simpletxt_title.html
+A free MTR shuttle bus service is operating between Hong Kong Station, Kowloon Station & Tsing Yi Station and Airport Station; between Hong Kong Station, Kowloon Station, Tsing Yi Station & Airport Station and AsiaWorld-Expo Station; between AsiaWorld-Expo Station and Tung Chung Station; or please consider using other transport.
Crosspost in CX forum today
Last edited by kaka; Oct 13, 2016 at 9:43 pm
Oct 16, 2016, 8:29 am
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Moaners. I'd like to see the reliability or uptime of any other developed country major city subway system (except Tokyo) be brought forth on the MTR. Then you'd have a reason to complain.
Oct 16, 2016, 8:55 am
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Oct 16, 2016, 4:38 pm
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Lord help us if you think the MTR should be measured against those "This train is out of service" standards.
Instead, the MTR is measured against its own standards, a standard of near-flawless operation set during its first 20 years of operation. Until it was "privatised," in 2000.
New York's problems began in the '70s with "deferred maintenance," and nobody wants to see HK go down the same path.
Instead, the MTR is measured against its own standards, a standard of near-flawless operation set during its first 20 years of operation. Until it was "privatised," in 2000.
New York's problems began in the '70s with "deferred maintenance," and nobody wants to see HK go down the same path.
Oct 17, 2016, 9:31 am
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Do you have any data to back this up, or just "feels" like this to you? You do appreciate that the MTR of 2016 is twice as big and carries more than twice as many passengers as the MTR of 2000, right? And hence even if having twice as many "incidents" (to be proven, show us the money!) would actually be maintaining performance, right?
Oct 18, 2016, 7:42 am
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More disappointing is that the subway is "taking a page" from the MTR, and more or less encouraging folks to chat on their mobile phones...
Oct 19, 2016, 5:04 am
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If anyone wants to research 35 years of Service Disruption statistics on the MTR, they're welcome to do so. Myself, I think slogging through 红楼梦 would be a better use of time.
But there's little doubt that continued disruptions on the MTR raise great concern in HK.
https://therealnewshk.wordpress.com/...unterscreates/ (English translations of some Apple Daily reports)
But there's little doubt that continued disruptions on the MTR raise great concern in HK.
https://therealnewshk.wordpress.com/...unterscreates/ (English translations of some Apple Daily reports)
Oct 19, 2016, 7:04 am
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If anyone wants to research 35 years of Service Disruption statistics on the MTR, they're welcome to do so. Myself, I think slogging through 红楼梦 would be a better use of time.
But there's little doubt that continued disruptions on the MTR raise great concern in HK.
https://therealnewshk.wordpress.com/...unterscreates/ (English translations of some Apple Daily reports)
But there's little doubt that continued disruptions on the MTR raise great concern in HK.
https://therealnewshk.wordpress.com/...unterscreates/ (English translations of some Apple Daily reports)
And just not to put too fine a point on it, here are the stats for the last few years. You tell me where the service is "worsening", please.
Oct 19, 2016, 9:24 am
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Oct 19, 2016, 9:26 am
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Nothing in those stats that shows the actual number of service disruptions per year, which is what attracts public attention, and which is what I invited you to spend your time finding. Besides, those stats only cover 2010 onwards, and we're talking about comparison with the pre-2000 MTR.
But keep looking!
But keep looking!
Oct 19, 2016, 4:38 pm
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People in HK should travel more to see how blessed they are!!!
