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Written by: Huang Yongyu
2021-03-30 12:25
Last update date: 2021-03-30 12:27
Four bus companies have been approved by the guild to increase fares in the "epidemic city" earlier, and MTR will also reduce fare concessions.
The public will face a sharp increase in the burden of transportation expenses next month. The Hong Kong government announced earlier that in order to reduce the burden of transportation expenses of the citizens, the low threshold arrangement of the "Public Transport Expense Subsidy Scheme" will be extended.
The Transport Department reminded that in accordance with the relevant arrangements, the temporary measure to relax the monthly transportation expenditure level from 400 yuan to 200 yuan will be extended to December 31; and the monthly subsidy ceiling will be temporarily increased from 400 yuan to 400 yuan from April. 500 yuan until the end of this year.
From July last year to June this year, the government temporarily relaxed the planned monthly transport expenditure level from 400 yuan to 200 yuan. The government earlier decided to extend the above special measures for another 6 months until the end of this year, and from April From the beginning, the monthly subsidy ceiling will be temporarily increased from 400 yuan to 500 yuan until the end of this year.
In other words, the government will provide a one-third subsidy for citizens' actual public transport expenses exceeding $200 per month, and the subsidy amount for each Octopus will be capped at $500 per month.
The "Public Transport Expenses Subsidy Scheme" will be extended to December 31 as a temporary measure to relax the monthly transportation expenditure level from 400 yuan to 200 yuan.
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The guild approves 4 bus companies to increase fares
However, many public transport services will increase their fares significantly starting next month.
On March 16, the guild approved the fare increase applications of 4 franchised bus operators. Citybus, NWFB, KMB, and Yubus will increase their fares from 8.5% to 12%. The new fares for the 4 bus companies will be 4 It will be implemented on the 4th.
Among them, NWFB and Citybus have the highest rate of increase, but they need to be implemented in phases. Starting from April 4, the increase will be 8.5% and will be increased by 3.2% on January 2 next year.
▼View the latest fares for all KMB routes and joint-operated routes▼
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On the KMB website, there is also a special page for passengers to check the new prices of each route after the fare increase, just click and see!
▼Click to see the fare increase of multi-region routes▼
▼Click to see the fare increase of NWFB City and Bado district route ▼
On the NWFB and Citybus websites, there are special pages for passengers to check the new prices of each route after the fare increase. Click to see!
▼NWFB and Citybus's new fare schedule from April 4th▼
MTR concessions "shrink" and fares rise
Except for the four bus companies, although MTR lowered the fare by 1.7% for the first time according to the plus and minus mechanism, the fare discount has also been "shrinked" from the current 20% to 9.5%, in a disguised form of "decreasing and increasing. Make the difference of some rides nearly 20%.
Bus fare increase｜NWFB and Citybus will increase the fare by 8.5% from April 4th to see the new fare of each route in one article
Bus fare increase｜KMB will increase the fare by 90% on April 4th, plus less than 1 yuan for the ride and see the new fare
Bus fare increase｜KMB received nearly 900 million subsidies from the Hong Kong government last year, "convex" turned into 200 million yuan and allowed fare increase
MTR's first fare reduction only offers a 5% discount without renewing the 20% discount on fares, passengers actually pay nearly 20% more expensive
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