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[Fugitives Regulations] Restoration of East Rail Line University Station takes time. MTR network maintenance costs are in the hundreds of millions.

2019-12-04T04:38:29.539Z


The anti-revision storm continued for more than five months and has not subsided. Many MTR station facilities have been damaged. The East Rail Line University Station has not yet been reopened. The Secretary for Transport and Housing, Chen Fan, responded to a written inquiry from the Legislative Council, stating that a large number of facilities at university stations and signal equipment near the railroad tracks had been maliciously damaged many times, causing serious damage. The maintenance work of the university station is still in progress, and it is expected that it will take a long time to repair. In addition, the Transport and Housing Bureau previously submitted documents to the Subcommittee on Railway Matters and revealed that it is expected that the cost of repairing station facilities and replacement will be hundreds of millions of yuan, but the cost of repairing the East Rail Line University Station has not yet been calculated.


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Written by: Chen Jingqi

2019-12-04 12:24

Last updated: 2019-12-04 12:24

The anti-revision storm continued for more than five months and has not subsided. Many MTR station facilities have been damaged. The East Rail Line University Station has not yet been reopened. The Secretary for Transport and Housing, Chen Fan, responded to a written inquiry from the Legislative Council, stating that a large number of facilities at university stations and signal equipment near the railroad tracks had been maliciously damaged many times, causing serious damage. The maintenance work of the university station is still in progress, and it is expected that it will take a long time to repair.

In addition, the Transport and Housing Bureau previously submitted documents to the Subcommittee on Railway Matters and revealed that it is expected that the cost of repairing station facilities and replacement will be hundreds of millions of yuan, but the cost of repairing the East Rail Line University Station has not yet been calculated.

The East Rail Line University Station was damaged earlier and has not been reopened to date, and the East Rail Line trains continue at the University Station. (Provided by MTR)

Chen Keqin, a member of the Legislative Council of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong (DAB), asked in writing about the damage to various railway lines and facilities and the blocked roads such as the Tolo Highway. The Secretary for Transport and Housing, Chen Fan, replied that the Tolo Highway was blocked for several days in November this year. However, the Transport Department did not receive any reports of malicious damage and blockage of the highway between 2016 and 2018.

As for the MTR network, since June, MTR services have been severely affected. Especially from July to November, a number of station facilities, including closed-circuit televisions, fire protection facilities, and access gates, were severely damaged. Station entrances and trains Also arson. Among them, the East Rail Line University Station was the most damaged and has not been reopened so far. The East Rail Line trains have not stopped at the station. It is expected that it will take a long time to repair.

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During the maintenance process, MTR will update the station facilities according to the actual situation. For the construction of new exits, the extension of the roof to cover the entire platform, and other structural changes involving the station, the authorities and the MTR Corporation will carefully consider them.

According to a document previously submitted by the Transport and Housing Bureau to the Subcommittee on Railway Matters, it was mentioned that during the public event from June 12 to November 24, 2019, a total of 85 heavy rail stations were damaged and 68 light rail stations were damaged. 62 were destroyed. As of November 24, 54 heavy rail trains and 16 light rail trains were damaged. MTR expects that the cost of repairing and replacing station facilities will be in the hundreds of millions of yuan, but the cost of repairing the two burned trains at the East Rail Line University Station and Tsim Sha Tsui Station Exit A1 has not been calculated.

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Source: hk1

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