How 🇭🇰 Hong Kong Built the World's Best Transit
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This doesn’t count as another China video
Oof
Winnie the Pooh would like to know your location
@UCEvHtoi-RGGJ_0fJzLt2GiQ You can't watch this video from China.
But sir I will inform you in 20 years when Hong Kong is part of China
China begs to differ against the protesters.
As a teenager in Hong Kong, I remembered that I can go anywhere just using one card with public transport. I don't need to have a car, I don't need to rely on my parent to drive me to somewhere, I can go out with my friends, I can go to school with bus in elementary. A good public transport network mean freedom for young teenagers.
Same thing is in delhi
What type of card is that m8?
@@firerocket7343 same thing is in delhi bro we call it metro card i can use it in buses , metro and grocery stores but at last most of the tech of india came from japan and almost every metro is imported from japan and we are soon gonna buy bullet train too
@@firerocket7343 cool i wish we had that type of card here in my country
vinit soni lol
As a Hongkonger, I get quite peeved off when I miss the train just to realize the next one comes in two minutes...sometimes I feel like I take the efficiency of the MTR for granted.
Wtf in Malaysia we have to wait for 6 mins (I mean metro not conventional train)
@@Warrior1754 be grateful, in sabah theres no things like MRT, LRT or Monorel. Here in sabah, we only have traffic jams
@@AAAA-yd4kz at least if you live in the correct part of Sabah, you have the SSR option; meanwhile in Sarawak...
In the US if you miss a train thats 30 mins...STFU about your 3 - 10 mins wait time
god i wish that were me
"strict no drinking or eating policy" as a person who was lived in HK for 3 years, it really isnt that strict
There will always be outliers. It is still super clean when compared to any train system in the US.
No such policy is needed in Japan, but people only eat on the long-distance trains.
@@xwarped83 Because one has nothing to do with the other
Yeah no one really gives a fk, it’s just like “what a fking douche”
@H L I agree. No need for regulation on the trains there for eating.
I was in Hong Kong last month for the first time. The MTR makes BART in San Francisco look like a transit system in a third world country in comparison.
half the stations are getting closed now :/
bart stations and trains are third world countries
What do you mean? Cairo subway is better than NY
you should've seen how fast the next MTR train arrives at the platform during rush hour.
@@case3177 USA, Europe and Scandinavian countries with bart and trains are 3rd world countries too??...What 4th country you came from?...ahahahaha!!
My city has the world’s best transit. Our metro is beautiful
No joke but Pyongyang's metro is actually good though outdated.
Yes sir couldn't agree more
True somewhat
Yes dear leader, our transportation system is the BEST IN THE WORLD. HAIL KIM JONG UN
Dude i was uh thinking about to get asylum over there, in exchange for some US secrets, you in or i try iran?
the video sums up why Hongkongers rely heavily on the Mass Transit Railway system while hating the company at the same time
Hongkongers used to be very proud of their subway company until two months ago, and the subway company started to side with the Hong Kong police. Notably, on the night of August 31, Hong Kong riot police came down to subway cars underground at the Prince Edward station to use batons to beat passengers indiscriminately. After that, the subway station was closed for two days. The rumor is that people were killed inside the subway station. In the following weeks, corpses showed up in the harbor, and people committed suicide based on no reason. The subway company refused public's request to release August 31 CCTV footage. It's the reason why Hongkongers now hate the company.
hhh why don’t you talk about what happened before all this police came in?
and now there is a non-cooperation movement from locals where we will transit only by bus and will not shop at shopping malls owned by MTR. It is a big challenge but quite a lot of HK people are persisting to it.
OMG, IT'S MONOKUMA!!!
@@raymondchoon dude,stop spread lies, there are literally videos of that day about what happened, I am gonna put a link here later to prove you are wrong.
As a visitor to HK, it's transportation system impresses me the most.
well it is to you but not to hk people
(News:MTR can't work
Traffic Jam:so I just started coming)
when u visited
@vitamen d petting jelly bean whilefunnehiswatching I remember It used to be 3 minutes interval. It's just worse after covid.
(I lived in Fanling for more than half of my life. I love Fanling so much. I wish there is some express train service.)
Fun fact: most US streetcar systems historically operated the same way. Then the government decided to heavily subsidize motorcars and they could no longer compete
And the car companies bought the streetcar systems and dismantled them in order to remove competition
Except the government didn't subidize motor cars and land values in cities never did rise fast enough for this business model to work, by the time the car company's bought the street car system they where so in the red it was ither that or bankruptcy. Seriously what worked in hon kong would not work for the us.
@@c.j.3404 then why did they buy it in the first place? It would've gone bankrupt by itself, no need to spend any money
@@SergejVolkov17 combination of bad binzness (they didn't realize how bad a shape the street cars were in) And government subsidies for buying Struggling public transport because despite what people like to say the us government dose try to support public transportation a lot more then regular cars, its gust extremely hard to do in america because its not Europe or east asia.
Fun fact : car companies bought public transit to destroy it
Please use metric system as well! The square foots does not mean anything to us (rest of the world)
Funnily, sq metres is about x10 of a sq ft, so you can actually divide sq ft by 10 and get sq metres.
Actually in Hong Kong, most property is sold in square feet. Although I feel that because property is so expensive and small here, it's more of a marketing ploy. I mean 500 square feet vs 46 square metres.
No dude - if he gives two he messes up the units and will confuse the shit out of everyone
Hong Kong use square feet though for property.
Hong Kong uses metric system in almost every single aspect, except for land and property (which still use hectare & sq foot)
When I started this video, I was like, "Damn, I gotta visit Hong Kong." Then I remembered current events. I guess I'll have to wait for a while.
Jacob Levin-Fay actually the city is quite safe except weekends
@@laiyinwong4814 kinda......
May be was the best transit, until it got destroyed by mobs last month lol
@@LeanBackNplay it still is the best transit system.
@@johnclark7966 When it is working then may be lol
5.894 rounded to 5.8... that hurts
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Still better than in my country, India.
1339.2 million gets rounded off to 1.33 billion 😂
What about 5.89
@@rohankhtrapal7889 bruh
It's funny how you talk about Hongkong transit at a time like this.
he's getting in before the CIA and rioters make hong kong becomes the fishing village again
@@kevinlification Nah, the reason why Hong Kong is so special is because of its system. China ain't doing full capitalism and judiciary independence anytime soon, so, the Hong Kong people have every right to fight for freedom
@@kevinlification Just wondering, how do you get a city of over 7 million to become a fishing village again?
some one This Grace person is some pro-CCP shill who thinks that the CIA is behind everything and that HK relies on China to be a world class when it’s really the other way around.
@@georgelabe-assimo4365 I hear you. Seems right.
I worked on the Australian team that installed the first smartcard transit ticketing system for HK in the late 1990s. I can still remember some of the LRT station names.
That's awesome!!
Share with us some of the names you remember :)
Name it!
@@tailsmelv025 The one name that stuck in my mind was Tuen Mun, and years later I read that station name in a Robert Ludlum novel.
@@dawnnadir The company I worked for, ERG, doesn't exist any more but I remember working on that project, including the ferry company that worked out of Tuen Mun Ferry Pier. Just north of that is the Melody Garden station, a signal of British influence in the city.
@@cmonkey63 British influence in Hong Kong is not a bad one. Far better than communist China influence. In fact, Hong Kong would not have been in existence on the map without the British given Hong Kong is the prime British colony so as the Portuguese Macau. Most people here prefer the Brits rather than the Northern mandarins as things have turned out. As a resident of Tuen Mun area, thank you for your work.
Living in hk throughout my life, we just take this transit system for granted, it wasn't until I went to other places when I relaize how fast, simple and efficient our line really is. It's rarely down at all and the only times it's down you can just switch to another line to contiune your routine. Some of us don't even take buses because of that, since there's no traffic jams that would make you late to work.
Meanwhile Sydney metro is on track work 50% of the time
As a Hong Konger studying abroad in Auckland NZ it really made me appreciate how amazing the MTR really is (Ps: Auckland public transport/ transport in general = literal hell on earth)😢
Me and buses in the UK:
HKer immigrant in Australia. The most nightmarish thing about living here is the car culture and how shitty and looked-down upon the public transport is here.
The second is the wildlife.
Next video:
"How Hong Kong has a mass traffic jam when MTR has a technical difficulties."
Yes it happened. I an a hongkonger.
@El Bottoo The East Rail Line track betweeen Hung Hom and Mong Kok East was never affected by the protesters. Actually, protesters didn't really go into those stations at all.
So in what way are they related?
@@KS2996 slight clarification: not confirmed how it happened but it definitely is a possibility.
@El Bottoo Don't mean to be overly annoying (maybe) but what's a "cohroach"?
Second, what evidence do you have that proves the MTR workers were "nervous"?
Third, "waited fro MTR personnel at night after work?" Sorry, but I don't follow that.
Fourth, you happen to have evidence of MTR personnel getting harassed? Just wondering.
And fifth, yes, the MTR workers' work "is affected just like any other [person's work] would." But isn't fighting for democracy also affecting their own work, many for the better so to fight for a better Hong Kong? Everything has tradeoffs, "cohroach" (which I will just assume is "cockroach").
@El Bottoo I like how you can't even spell cockroach. And I am pretty sure this word isn't a thing in youtube and it only appeared here.
Thus to someone who can only see the superficial manifestation of an event and refuses to dig into the causes and reasons behind it I have nothing to say.
I just hate people who like to turn a simple comment into a political argument. Look the original comment doesn't even have any relationship with the current crisis at all.
HK is very dependent on public transport, especially MTR. If it breaks, traffic standing still is inevitable. The roads just dont have the capacity to handle all the commuters travelling to different places.
7:07 I literally visit this EXACT 7-eleven every other day. Never thought I would ever see it in a RUclips Video!
Hang Hau Station, Exit A.
Hgo S can i ask you questions about Hong Kong
@@aser278 Sure. Born and raised.
@@hgos7211 How hard is it to find an apartment that is around 900 sq ft (80 sq meters), at $1500 (11K HKD) or less?
@@TheErudite21 Don't think you can even rent it for half a month with this size
@@TheErudite21 Would be very very difficult indeed, as Harry HK pointed out. 900sq feet go for around 25-30k HKD on average I believe.
I've travelled to 30 countries and Hong Kong had the EASIEST transit system to understand out of all the metro cities. Unreal. Need to go back 🙌🏾
Hongkong : Report delay that longer than 8 minutes to the goverment
Everyone : Wow that's amazing.
Japan : pfft, we issue written explanation if we late by a minute
North Korea : pfft, we execute everyone involved in that particular train if they're late by 10 seconds
Blank Blank USA: pfft we don’t even care
Brisbane: Commuters get punished by their employer!
Zimbabwe : holy shit a train
Deutsche Bahn: A train is not delayed, when you cancel it completely.
Japan: We held a press conference because we were 30 seconds early
The MTR also profits from running other country's services, such as TFL rail in London which is partly run by MTR
TFL has a 134% fairbox recovery. impressive
and SWR is also run by FirstGroup and MTR
Sydney Metro is also 60% owned by MTR and it's opened to great reception so far. If Americans can export their car culture, us Hong Kongers can export our public transport culture - which is more sustainable and healthier than what the Americans offer.
I studied abroad in Hong Kong from January until May this year and the public transit was by far one of my favorite parts, especially because I came from the US. Getting everywhere so quickly in a city is something Americans will never understand.
No we understand. We may never experience, but we understand 😢
I went to Hong Kong and I was more confident in their system in 2 days and could travel anywhere. My own city is a lot harder to use and I’m less confident on it.
Exactly the same lol, I’ve been here a week and I’m confident travelling anywhere around here. I still struggle with London, where I’ve lived for so long 😅😂
The start of Tuen Ma line is very delightful for Mr Lau 羅先生
屯馬開通真的很興奮
@@PatheticTV exactly
Haha haha I remember
LMAOOOOOOO
LOL YES
6:44 That is no longer true. That was a valid policy until the two major metro companies merged into MTR, which is nowadays largely disregarded.
In the past year, there have been three major delays which the public announcement, news outlet and their mobile application failed to disclose within an hour.
1. The time they just had signalling error, no signal or warning until you are already in the paid area and saw a sea of people
2. The day after a T10 typhoon where fallen trees blocked some major roads and forced everyone underground. Once again, no special warning in or outside of the station.
3. 5th August, disobedient protest. They refused to admit their inability to move passengers for well over 2 hours.
Harry Tsang thanks to our govt
Thanks to our “great” government and “great” country
0:55
'(...) a steep 370-meter, or 12,000-foot ascent (...)'
Minor correction: 370 m is equal to ~1,200 feet, not 12,000.
Hong Kong, a place that once made us Hong Kong people proud, now has more than a million people emigrating like refugees due to political factors.
Nuke china
4:07 Disabled only needs 2 HKD for every ride including bus & mini bus
should had just made it free for them in that case..
@@lyhthegreat $2 hkd not usd
@@Ca11mewhatever yea, so more reason to make it free for them
0:56 A steep 370m or 12,000 ft climb, not sure about that one chief.
Yep, it's supposed to be twelve hundred, not twelve thousand
i love how obvious poly matter is that kid who loved trains a little too much but also never grew out of it
"the only double decker tram in the world"
*bruh*
Britain: That's my boy
Why do you say bruh? It’s the only full double decker system in the world.
You’re right about Detroit, they spend more on their PeopleMover to keep it running than the amount people spent to ride it. The Detroit PeopleMover is considered a white elephant
@@tarkfarhen3870 If all infrastructure was private, we'd be spending 60$ a day to commute by freeways into cities and public transit would cost over 2 dollars per mile.
Source: look at Japan. It's fast, clean, and efficient, but expensive as hell.
Probably because of crime and dirtiness. Jail or execute the criminals and vandals, ala China, and problem solved.
@@mortkebab2849 We have these things called Human rights, and what you just described doesn't adhere to them.
Avery the Cuban-American that’s true anytime I go on it, there’s barely any people. If Detroit had its pre decline population it would of made sense
@@Token_Nerd "Human Rights" is a made-up term to destroy our traditional societies.
Ok, everyone, I think he's obsessed with trains and China and Hong Kong
Absolutely agreed! Even though he is not admitting it in this video.
just like how wenover and half as interesting in obsessed in planes
Too bad HK is not a part of China
Nope, Hong Kong is not china
@@anson4924 there u go
It's a job well done (again)! You guys always manage to put 2 and 2 together and blow my mind every single time. Keep at it!!
-Ok, so what are you teaching toda...
-CHINA
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0:17: "...99.9 % arrive on time."
7:00 "They arrive so often there is no need for a time table."
Haha well played MTR, well played!
Maybe there is a timetable but there's no need to look at it
It's kinda hilarious that the Airport Express has its own timetable. I went to Hong Kong some time ago, and on the back of this system map I got, there was the full Airport Express timetable, even when the entire thing could have been summed up as "trains about every 10 minutes from 5:50am to about 1am"
It doesn't matter when the next train is coming, because it's already here.
When the train takes longer than 3 minutes to arrive the station it’s late.
In any good subway system trains arrive about every 3-4 minutes. At that point yeah you don't need a timetable since you just show up and a train will be there soon.
Can we talk about how clever the dual station cross platform interchange that the MTR uses is? On their busiest lines, to remove the bottleneck that transferring lines creates in stations, they'll run the two trains from the two lines people transfer between onto two sides of the same station platform so to change lines you just walk across the platform. Of course there's two directions you could want to interchange in, so they'll run the lines parallel to each other for two stations so there's one station per transfer direction. It's brilliant and I can't believe no other network on the planet has stolen this idea yet.
Taipei has!
Singapore:
The transition to the advertisement is so smooth
Many Hong Kong people are dissatisfied with the performance of the MTR but they just have no alternative choices :(
May I ask what problems people have? I been there in hk and live in the U.S. so I desperately wish for it to be here instead of what we call a public transportation system.
4:02 You'd have to be stupid to take that route. The Airport Express (teal) costs five times as much as the Tung Chung line (runs paralell) and saves about two minutes of time.
Please, if you can afford Airport Express, you'd be flying at worst business class. That line wasn't designed for us who flies couch.
@@ArchOfWinter The Airport Express is for tourists who want to spend the money anyway and are willing to pay extra for comfort. You can also take a bus from Chek Lap Kok to Cheung On Bus Terminus and change buses there or walk the extra 500m to Tsing Yi Station if you want to save money.
@@NateNate60 as a multi-visit tourist to HK I can attest to that. It's largely offset by the fact that I can buy the 3 day unlimited Oyster card, and get the trip to and from the airport included in the price, plus unlimited travel around HK. I've found it's worth the price for the convenience.
The AEL is for tourists. The TCL is for tourists on a tight budget or HK residents who know better.
Alternatively, there is always the A11 and E11/E11A bus, for those who are super budget conscious.
True, but the Airport Express always has discounts for stuff like taxi or parking so sometimes it makes sense to use it.
Your transitions into the ad read are actually incredible. 😂😂😂
Thanks for the support polymatter. Cheers from Hong Kong. We fight for freedom and justice
By sabotaging normal HK citizens lives and rights
A.K.A. how Hong Kong made it to my bucket list! 😀
You're going there to ride trains?? lmao 😂
HK is wayyyy overrated tbh
@@sblue3964 Better than singapore lmao
@@unassumingaccount395 Are you on drugs? SG is no longer at the same level as HK. It's stable, clean, orderly, and most importantly, people don't have to live in cages lol
@@supawathorsuwan9306 I'm comparing HK to people's perception of HK. That's what "overrated" means :)
0:18 Yeah, as a Hong Konger, I am state that it’s true. The train always come on the time as same as the estimated time.
0:32 I think it’s mainly because of lack of parkings/ the parkings are expensive.
4:32 The video here is actually commercial area. Mainly include office or wareroom for storage.
7:49 A portion of the place in HK is not developed, mainly because of brownfields and country park.
(Hope my comments here stays impartial and true 😂 tell me if I am wrong)
However, I am still appreciate how much work/ research/ time have you used to prepare for this video! Most of the information is right! You’ve gained a sub from Hong Kong now 🤣🤣🤣
The First Train in Hong Kong is KCR in 1910 with 1 Line at the Time with 6 Stations and the first Subway/Metro in Hong Kong is MTR(Metro Transit Railway) in 1979 with 1 Line with 8 Stations at the Time
Yeah
Hong Kong was our first family trip outside of the country, and as a first time international traveller, you'd think that we'd rely on taxis, etc. but during the whole duration of our stay, we only used their public transport. I loved and enjoyed commuting for the first time, and ended up hating my country's public transportation system even more 😅
Octopus card is so convenient! You can recharge in convenient shop like 7/11
But MTR is very expensive in Hong Kong.
At least they do not have strike in transportation, not like RATP in Paris... :D
wait till the CCP slam the brakes on them
Like an IC card in Japan (suica, pasmo, etc.)
They don't have strike but they are strike by rioters in recent times
@@PrograError CCP won't do that, till now most Hong Konger is happy with violent, if you anti-China, you can do anything you want. if you support China, they will punch at your face
You obviously have not heard Alipay and WeChat pay.
The fact is that I saw myself on the camera
Polymatter and China , still a better love story than Twilight.
The more I see Polymatter the more I ship them XD. It's basically the only western propaganda that is fun to watch
@@edwardsnowden2313 seems you have taken Snowden's name in vain. I believe that the term mouthbreather would be appropriate for you, but that is assuming you had the mental capacity to hold your mouth open while simultaniously inhaling air.
@@jimmyhaotran123
I don't think that this is propaganda lol however for the mainstream Western media they suck.
@@edwardsnowden2313 China doesn't bomb 3rd world countries like the west. Dictator? You should stop speaking when you don't know much.
@@AFlyingCookieLOL china however occupy 3rd world countries' land and business with unfair debt and project. It's the same as bomb, except it is too quiet for you dumb people to notice and spread fake Chinese propagandas.
HK certainly has a superb transit system. It puts many other cities to shame. Great video.
I've been to HK and the trains there are so good. Unlike where I live (NYC)
PolyMatter: Makes good videos
PolyU: Makes a homemade slingshot
Lower than college.
My friend: "Is PolyU a polytechnic or a university? Can it make up it's mind?"
I miss Hong Kong’s transit system now that I live in a place with a very small amount of public transit
Same feeling.when I was in HK I can go wherever I want.even if that place not familiar to me yet .so easy to go places in this lovely city.while here in the place where I am right now ,omg.no public transportation,not even a mini bus .its very frustrating for me .I always rely on my husband to drive me from home to work or to go grocery shopping.i feel like I lost my freedom in this huge country were freedom is originated.
3:58 No one goes to Central with the Airport Express from Lo Wu. Instead you’d change to the Tsuen Wan Line in Tsim Sha Tsui, which connects to Tsim Sha Tsui East station on the West Rail Line through a pedestrian tunnel.
depends on how much luggage you have, east to west is a 6 minute walk ish without being encumbered.
As someone who has used metro in Hong Kong, Paris, NYC, Delhi, Singapore, Thailand etc i can confirm that nothing beats the HK MTR system. Or in fact, all of HK public transportation
That footage is amazing. My wife and i are going to Hong Kong next month for the first time. I hope things have calmed down by then. The city looks amazing.
Darryn Waugh how was it?
@@NoobehPvP we dont arrive until Wed so not sure yet.
@@wogga8 Don't worry too much about the protests. Im a local. Life goes on normally. Stay out of the protests and you'll be fine :).
@@NoobehPvP cheers. We did debate about whether we would go but the city needs people to keep going. We think we would be unlucky to even see the protests.
@@wogga8 It's still really nice. The media obviously only shows the violent side. Life is still the same. HKers are workaholics after all. Protest would only make your stay a little more inconvenient. Download the MTR app by the way :)
I was on vacation in Japan recently and being back in the US has been a stark reminder of how annoying it is to _have_ to drive a car (or ride share) to get anywhere significant. The US is a nation defined by highways, sprawl, and insufficient public transportation. Even SF's Bart isn't all that great, comparatively speaking.
As I am Hong Kong, I know Cantonese the worlds hardest language
I wanna say that Taipei's MRT isn't too shabby either
even better, the passengers are much more polite.
@@thinkinting Thank you, I am very glad to hear that.
I agree. The passengers show almost Japanese level courtesy. Also the system is spotless.
@@陳秉軒-c9b I'm visiting Taipei in January, you made me even more excited :)
The MRT totally satisfies advanced East Asia standards. The regional trains however, can be very delayed
love it how you merged Tung Chung Line (the orange one) and the Airport Express (the green one) as they go on the same route and I use the orange line everyday!
Bruh I went to Singapore a week ago and their mrt sucks. You have to walk in the heat and rain unlike MTR, which has underground tunnels leading to lots of important buildings so you can go to the airport and board a plane from your house door without even getting wet on a rainy day.
5:33 MY FAVORITE APPLE STORE 🥰
1. 4:14 You mixed up the square mile/square km conversion
2. 4:40 - You mixed up the NYC Subway and London Underground map placement.
Okay Mr. perfectionist. Thank you for your vivid observation
Me, a HKer: fuck i missed the train, the next one is in 3 minutes!
Me, travelling to Germany to study: 👁👄👁
How Hong Kong created the best anti-Chinese rally in the world. Tibet and East Turkistan to join!
Why dont you throw in al qaeda in there while you're at it?
@@snackler6102 islamophobic you are
It's perfect. I went there 9 times and I'm still amazed by how they did it
As a born in HK teen, yout introduction to the sponsor is superb 😂
Didn't expect that while watching
Love the HK metro. TTC needs to implement this system
The entire point of this was the rail system, while cheap, had more control over people than necessary. Do you want TTC to further drive up housing prices? Also Toronto is no where near as densely populated as Hong Kong
yo the ttc is shit yrt is trash too. it makes sense but man is it unusable id rather bike than bus
Waiting for a TTC comment 🤣
the ttc is why canadians ride polar bears and moose instead of the buses and trains.
I heard Vienna has the best public transport system, wonder how they compare.
Olaf Sikorski it’s good. But certainly not the best
London, Zürich and Paris are better
@@xeroxquantum You must be on crack. Have you even used the TFL services? They are dirty. Try riding the tube during the summer and you shall see. Pretty sure its the same for Paris too. The HK MTR is clean and has air conditioning, it is heaven in comparison.
Having been to Vienna, it's fine, even great, but certainly not exceptional.
@@xeroxquantum nah London sucks considering the size of the city. The tube is dirty and cramped, very pricy, and often has to be complemented with a separate overground train service to actually get to most places. And don't even get me started on the amount of technical issues they have and workers strikes that grind the city to a standstill.
In comparison, probably the next best public transit system in the world is in Shanghai. Buses come every 5 minutes or less, same with the metro which has huge coverage (and a new line every 2-3 years). Although this is massively subsidised by the government. Does make my 15 years living in Shanghai a real blast though.
Correction: For elderly, it's a $2 HKD flat fare for any trip, except for the airport and border gates
The HK govt actually subsidized the MTR by granting it the right to develop property above the station and nearby.
Is it subsidized? I always thought they just sold to highest bidder.
10% tax: Good
Government owns all the land? WTF
The land is officially owned by the state but it is leased to the private sector, who will pay top dollar for access to a low tax market.
If their govt didn't collect land rent via leases and taxes, they'd have to collect more from income taxes, sales taxes etc which would put off those same businesses.
It's far less damaging to the economy to collect land rent directly, the Asian tiger model, flawed as it is is actually closer to the definition of a laissez faire economy, the term itself comes from the French Physiocrats, who advocated a single tax on land.
@@schumanhuman this is a very interesting take on taxation (federally own land then lease it as a single property tax).
Any recommendations(books/articles) on the Asian(Hong Kong) macroeconomic model ?
@@sortsvane I'm interested in this as well.
so who do you think owns the land of any country. For instance philippines, we have the contstiution 2nd: philippines government eminent domain.. its normal thing the government to own the land in every country
Nothing is free my friend
honestly as a hkger i feel that the public are not grateful at all for the advanced mass transit systems
Really appreciate your video!! As a HongKonger I could say that all the information and analysis shown in the video are sooo accurate (I live in Lohas Park and all the footages are correct!!). Can't imagine it to be so updated especially in illustrating how MTR has limited the movement of people during protests.
Thank you and please may the world stand with us while we fight for our freedom!
so if you were a taxi driver, and criminals wanted to use your taxi to get away from the scene of the crime, you would drive them? Not only that, they've been smashing and ripping up your taxi, and refusing to pay the fare whiel they're at it.
No matter how good it is I’m not changing my mind after my foot fell through the gap when I was 7
Kowloon tong platforms?
@@seeforkat Jesus you're bringing back scary memories to me. I always went the the front and end of the train cars cuz the gap's much smaller there.
To be fair, I seriously doubt its the MTR that is causing the spike in property values. They actually benefit from being able to buy land cheap in order to make it expensive with the transit service, not to mention they profit off of the difference between the land values before vs after the lines are built.
I live here, and I love Hong Kong. If we ignores the crazy things that's going on right now, It is still a beautiful city :D
Hong Kong's transit system, one of the most successful in the world was established and built by the British. And China subsequently learned from it.
A beautiful and wonderful channel 😍😍
A “fitting” title describing the MTR when there was a de-railing accident recently on the east rail line...
That transition into the sponsor shout out was PHENOMENAL 🙆🏾♂️
I wish one day Hong Kong could have someone make good contents on RUclips like you do.
There are, but they all spoke Cantonese
-Hong Kong erupts in protest as millions riot
-Makes video about its Transit System
They recently derailed their own train system. Unfortunate
Panzerkampfvagen VI Ausführung B. Königstiger It kinda relates to it. The MTR have long employed a policy that made land extremely expensive, and thus most young people can’t afford to buy even tiny flats. Thus people are angry and goes on protests.
Though that still isn’t the main cause, the main cause of al of these protests are how those tyrannies up in Beijing think they can control Hong Kongers, which have learnt the values of democracy and liberty, and China ain’t ever gonna wipe this culture away.
Millions riot? Are you sure?
@@goldsilvervscrisiscollapse4320 That is fake news actually.
@@yopin7026 really? Which part of it? That a rail line leading to China was severed, train derailed, or the fact that HK protestors were filmed actively hacking away at and placing obstructions on rail lines?
you could buy a car in hong kong, but honestly the public transport is so amazing you dont need it.
How the UK built the MTR should be the title.....
🤣🤣🤣🤣oh dear … . without the Chinese , it would not have been possible.. have you travel on the London Underground and London buses ? , not a patch on HK MTR.
@@rainbow2639 British engineers, Chinese slave labour.... I didn't think I would have to explain that.
@@goldenapple27 Don't assume I'm a limey you muppet, it makes an ass out of u and me.... I'm an Aussie and the UK did build your MTR.. How's it going under Chinas rule now ?? pmsl 🤣
In Britain, we were told ,when the MTR opened that it had been built, partly, to allow police and troops to move around the colony, (as it then was). The ticket offices were built so they could be sealed with armour plated shutters and turned into machine gun nests. All this in case ofinsurrecion!
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*places London Underground where NYC is (approximately)*
*places NYC where London is (approximately)*
I think it was cause the dates
I’m so jealous of how fast those trains are. uk trains are always delayed! Anyway, great video!
Well I guess Australia just copied that from the UK and made it worse.
...And theyre comparatively super expensive too.
The bus is even worse, every 10 mins? Nah every 10 mins late
I’m Chinese and Live in the UK :p
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As a hongkonger this is all🧢
Trains are like a zoo but you get used to it very fast and the no eating policy is super loose. Lunch hour and late night everyone eats in the train
4:38 That got me twisted there.
London underground in US and NYC system in UK
I saw that as well
Toronto’s newest technological advancement on our transit is being able to tap a plastic card that sometimes works
Please please please duplicate numbers in metric. There is life outside US, you know.
There is also the device that your using that is very much capable of converting them in a few seconds with a Google search.
@@Blaze6432 should americans do that instead of the rest of the world?
@@NoHandleToSpeakOf Either way it doesn't matter. I can put up any unit of measurement and you have the ability to convert in seconds. It never bothered me cuz I'm not an incompetent idiot that can't simply go to Google and convert. This is a video on an AMERICAN video streaming site. When I'm on BBC news sites I never seem to complain.
I'd like to enjoy PolyMatter videos without interruptions for unit conversion. You just proved that you are totally not an incompetent idiot, yes.
Fun Fact: MTR is actually a real estate developer, not a public transport corp.
PolyMatter, Wendover and China walk into a bar...
Yay trains
I have experience living in NYC and Hong Kong, and indeed, there's not much traffic jam in Hong Kong, rarely happened unless there's car crash or some of the tunnels having bottle neck in peak period.
Taipei, Taiwan also has a phenomenal and spectacular metro system :)
but can it compare with HKMTR?
It's a land monopoly, since it gets to buy land in greenfield prices.
Hong Kong is gorgeous ... I hope I get to visit there one day. And hopefully by then it's a totally free and independent country, not perpetually threatened by China's aggression.
I used to live in Hong Kong, and its amazing public transport system influenced the way I look at transit forever. It's truly spectacular and it will always have a special place in my heart.
How Hong Kong Built the World's Best Transit, and then destroyed it.