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Live | Two yuan car discount down to 60 years old must use designated personal octopus package red Van Kaito

2021-01-12T06:55:47.027Z


People over 60 years old can enjoy a RMB 2 discount on the ride as soon as the first quarter of next year. In order to prevent abuse, the elderly need to hold a personal Octopus card. The authorities will issue registered Octopus cards from the middle of this year, and the anonymous card will be suspended in 2024.


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Written by: Yuan Shu Huang Yongyu Zhong Yan Huang Weilun

2021-01-12 14:24

Last update date: 2021-01-12 14:45

People over 60 years old can enjoy a RMB 2 discount on the ride as soon as the first quarter of next year. In order to prevent abuse, the elderly need to hold a personal Octopus card. The authorities will issue registered Octopus cards from the middle of this year, and the anonymous card will be suspended in 2024. Elderly Octopus.

The Secretary for Labour and Welfare Law Chi-kwong opened a press today (12th) to announce the final report of the comprehensive review of the government's elderly and eligible disabled public transport fare concession scheme (binary concession scheme).

"Hong Kong 01" will broadcast the contents of the press conference.

The Hong Kong government earlier proposed to relax the two-dollar ride concession to 60-64 years old, and provide an additional transportation allowance.

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[14:39] Luo Zhiguang said that if the authorities do not crack down on abuse, the annual loss of warehouses can reach hundreds of millions of yuan.

The abuse problem mainly involves the bearer Octopus card, and it is difficult to proceed with the introduction of new discounts until the abuse is prevented and abused.

He emphasized that it will work with operators to step up ticket checking to combat abuse and remind abusers that they will be fined and prosecuted.

[14:35] The Secretary for Labor and Welfare, Luo Zhiguang, said that the consultant’s review report will be made public today. The government decided to adopt the report’s recommendations and agreed to lower the age threshold for the two-dollar ride plan to 60 years old, but added 60 to 64 years of age. The beneficiary must use the designated personal Octopus.

However, this is a specially designed and easily recognizable personal Octopus card. The public does not need to rush to apply now. The specific application arrangements are yet to be announced.

He predicts that the new batch of beneficiaries will involve 600,000 people, and it will take about 13 months to issue cards, which will be implemented in the first quarter of next year.

The next step will be to extend the new card to people 65 years of age or older.

When the related work is completed, the two-yuan ride discount will be extended to designated red non-green minibuses and Kaito.

The fare for rides will be adjusted every 5 years.

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