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Written by: Zhong Yan
2021-04-27 00:00
Last update date: 2021-04-27 02:42
The MTR Tuen Ma Line is expected to open to traffic in the third quarter of this year. It will open up traffic in Kai Tak and To Kwa Wan, but it will affect the current city buses serving the Kai Tak district.
NWFB and Citybus Commercial Director Wu Yijun pointed out that Kai Tak has the concept of MTR, and there is no major conflict between the alignment and the railway. Bus routes to the hospital and Prince Edward and Tsim Sha Tsui will continue to be developed.
As for the government's large-scale promotion of electric vehicles in recent years, Citybus will switch to electric buses on its bus routes in Kai Tak. However, it points out that the price of double-decker electric buses is twice as expensive as diesel buses, which is financially "stuck".
Citybus stated that it will continue to increase routes to Prince Edward and Children's Hospital in the Kai Tak Development Area.
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Wu Yijun said that after the opening of the Tuen Ma Line, it is expected that Citybus will need some adjustments to the Kai Tak route. However, he pointed out that the current alignment and the railway "do not conflict", and even pointed out that Kai Tak to Prince Edward and Tsim Sha Tsui and other areas, take the railway club It is more roundabout and plans to open related routes with a division of labor with railways.
He continued that the current connections to the Children's Hospital will also be strengthened. In addition, the Queen Elizabeth Hospital will also move to Kai Tak in the future. It is expected that there will be more routes to the hospital and to and from Kowloon Bay.
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The Ma On Shan New Line goes to Chai Wan via the Western Tunnel in a circuitous route, but time can be controlled
Citybus added 4 new routes yesterday. Among them, Routes 933, 976 and 989 all run through the Western Harbour Crossing and the Central-Wan Chai Bypass. The line 988, which is expected to be launched in two months, runs between Ma On Shan and Chai Wan (East). It is the same as the stop of Line 682 in the past, but will be changed to Tsing Sha control point, passing through the Western Tunnel and bypass, and abandoning Tate’s Cairn Tunnel East tunnel.
NWFB and Citybus’s planning and scheduling manager Huang Hanzhong explained that due to the severe traffic congestion of the Eastern Tunnel and Tate’s Cairn Tunnel during peak hours, the journey through the Western Tunnel is 7 kilometers longer than the original route, but the time can be saved by about 15 minutes. Although it seems to be roundabout, it can make the route and road conditions easier to grasp.
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22M line will be fully transferred to electric buses
The government earlier launched the "Roadmap for the Popularization of Electric Vehicles in Hong Kong", hoping to stop newly registered petrol vehicles before 2035, but the date of deactivation of petrol commercial vehicles has not been determined.
Wu Yijun said that the current line 22M between the Kai Tak Cruise Terminal and Kowloon City will be completely converted to electric buses, and a charging station will be set up at the cruise terminal.
But for the double-decker electric buses, Wu admitted that he "want to do it," but the biggest problem is finances. "You know that our financial situation is half-floating and half-sinking, so the price of electric buses is a gap." , Referring to the need to discuss with the government how to bear the relevant difference, and that even if the maintenance cost of electric buses is cheaper, it still cannot "save the price of the car."
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