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Two yuan car discount|The threshold is lowered to 60 years old, you must use a designated personal Octopus to pack the red Van Kaito

2021-01-12T07:43:41.129Z


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 15:37

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 reporter today (12th) to announce the final report on the comprehensive review of the government's elderly and eligible disabled public transport fare concession scheme (binary concession scheme).

Luo said that the authorities adopted the consultant’s recommendation to combat and prevent abuse before expanding the concessions. Therefore, the beneficiaries will need to apply for a personal Octopus card that is easy to recognize and facial recognition. The concessions will be extended to red minibuses and street Crossing.

Luo Zhiguang admitted that elderly travelers will not be able to benefit from the personal Octopus card required by the plan.

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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[15:12] For those who have comments and requests to use the two yuan passenger discount, they should travel only during the designated time.

Luo Zhiguang pointed out that the authorities have reviewed the travel habits of the beneficiaries in the past few years to confirm that the travel habits of the beneficiaries are very different from the peak travel time of office workers. There is a 1.5 to 2 hour difference during peak travel times. They are busy. The number of time spent is not significant.

Therefore, it is considered that there is no restriction.

He also pointed out that there was a metaphor that the plan could encourage continued employment, but the relevant effect would disappear if the period of use was limited.

He also pointed out that he has reservations about whether the elderly have abused the preferential "long-distance rides", but agrees that if the bus company increases the segmented fares and the elderly can make good use of the segmented fares when using the preferential scheme, there will be no " It is unnecessary to make more money."

He continued that there are other transportation policy considerations in terms of section charges. For example, if most people only take the first half of a long-distance bus, it will cause multiple vehicles on the road and a long journey time. This is undesirable in terms of transportation policies. However, it depends on many considerations and the authorities will discuss it.

[14:58] As for the application location and charging arrangement of the new personal Octopus card, Luo Zhiguang pointed out that the government initially plans to bear the relevant expenses, and the citizen application for the new card "should be free."

As for the detailed application details, it is expected to be announced in the third quarter of this year. He pointed out that if older people are required to apply at designated locations, there may be queues, and relevant factors will be taken into consideration as far as possible to facilitate the application of the 60 to 64-year-olds.

[14:46] Luo Zhiguang said that the car discount will be extended to red minibuses and Kaito.

Participating red minibus operators need to register the starting and ending fares, routing and clear fares with the Transport Department, and the Octopus payment system must be installed on the minibus, and the authorities will only return the registration according to the preset registration system For the difference between the fee and RMB 2, the operator must also submit an audit report.

[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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