Kai Tak Monorail shelved Chen Wanxian and humiliated the government, err, people to invest in the abandonment of the MTR: Domestic companies have much lower valuations

The Kai Tak monorail plan was proposed in 2007 and has been brewing for more than ten years. Finally, the government shelved the plan in 2022 due to high costs and other reasons. Recently, there have been voices calling for the restart of the monorail.

Kowloon City Councillor Zhang Jingxun said in a radio program today (16th) that the monorail is very important to the development of Kai Tak. In the future, after the completion of the Kai Tak Sports Park, a monorail will be needed to evacuate passengers and spectators. I hope the government will consider a mixed mode of elevated and ground railways. Reduce project cost.

Chan Yuen-han, the trade union's consultant, criticized the Deputy Financial Secretary, Wong Wai-lun, for dereliction of duty, saying that the government's shelving of the monorail plan is like an "err man's investment." She also said that the trade union had suggested hiring a Shenzhen company to build the train, but the government insisted that the MTR Corporation build the train. : "It's too expensive to help the MTR and die."

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Zhang Jingxun pointed out that the government proposed to replace the monorail with water taxis, etc., but the water taxis had their first boats at 11:00 in the morning, which could not take into account the needs of the residents at all.

He said that after the completion of the Kai Tak Sports Park in the future, an event will be watched by 50,000 people at any time, and a monorail will be needed to guide passengers and spectators.

He believes that the government can reduce costs through different schemes, such as setting up a ground railway in the Kai Tak section, turning it into an elevated section at the Kwun Tong section, or replacing it with modern trams.

Regarding some voices suggesting that the monorail should be shortened and only connect Kai Tak and Kowloon Bay, Zhang Jingxun believes that it is interesting to connect the entire project to Kwun Tong, otherwise it will not be able to achieve the effect of smoothing traffic.

Ban Chi-wing, managing director of Kai Tak Cruise Terminal, believes that the current throughput of the cruise terminal is satisfactory, and the government has also increased the residential density in Kai Tak, but the traffic in Kai Tak is still mainly by land, and traffic jams will occur in case of illegal berthing or construction work. Consider the monorail option.

The Kai Tak Monorail was shelved more than a decade after it was proposed.

(Wang Wai Lun's blog)

Chen Wanxian: Helping MTR to die is so expensive

Chan Yuen-han said that the government is determined to develop Kowloon East into the second largest center in Hong Kong, but after shelving the monorail, the main roads in the Kai Tak Development Area will be lost, which goes against the concept of building an environmentally friendly smart city, describing it as "investment by people".

She severely criticized Huang Weilun for dereliction of duty, pointing out that the construction cost proposed by the Shenzhen company was much lower than the government's estimate, but Huang Weilun refused.

Deng Jiabiao urges the government to restart the Kai Tak Monorail to reduce costs to 6 kilometers to avoid technical difficulties "Policy Address" Responding to Yan Wenyu's collection of opinions from Kowloon East, urging priority to solve the housing dilemma, merging the East Kowloon Line and the monorail system, and the monorail stop of the runway area Developers set up a concern group to advocate the establishment of water taxis to alleviate congestion