The Hong Kong government has officially implemented the "0+3" entry quarantine exemption since yesterday (26th), but there is still no deadline for customs clearance in China and Hong Kong. The Zhonghuang bus service has been suspended for more than two and a half years due to the closure of passenger services at the control point. The interchange has also been abandoned for a long time, and many waiting areas in the station have grown wildly with "gravehead grass", some of which are as tall as adults, while the imperial bus is parked in the open-air parking lot to allow the sun and rain to be exposed to the sun and rain.
Some Chinese and Hong Kong passenger transport companies are not optimistic about when China and Hong Kong will clear customs. "There are (catering) industries that the '0+3' quarantine means the darkness before dawn. We are so patient in the darkness that we have not even seen the light." He urged the government Provide support, otherwise the entire industry will not be able to deploy manpower to meet the surge in demand in the future.
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Weeds grow like "grave grass" at Huangba Station, and the flow of people has changed to zero
The transit shuttle bus service, commonly known as the Royal Bus, mainly takes passengers between Hong Kong's Lok Ma Chau and Shenzhen Huanggang Port. When the Hong Kong station picks up and unloads passengers from the San Tin Public Transport Interchange, it has been converted to 24 hours from the Huanggang Port in 2003. After customs clearance, the Lok Ma Chau Control Point has become one of the busiest entry and exit channels. Before the epidemic in 2019, the number of passengers entering and exiting reached 2,400. However, due to the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the Hong Kong government closed the Lok Ma Chau Control Point from the early morning of February 4, 2020. After the passenger inspection service, the number of inbound and outbound passengers has still "returned to zero" for more than two and a half years.
Huangbus Station, located at the Xintian Public Transport Interchange, has been left unattended since it was closed. As seen at the scene, both the toll service counters and the indoor air-conditioned waiting rooms are still closed and re-locked. As for the waiting rooms in Zones 1 to 5 outside the station , It is suspected that due to the lack of care or passage for many years, weeds grow wildly from the gaps between the bricks, some of which are taller than adults, and the benches are also peeled off paint to reveal the rusted surface. The whole environment seems to be a botanical garden more than one person Stream busy pick-up and drop-off area.
Some bus or minibus routes will still drop off passengers at the San Tin Public Transport Interchange, but there are not many people. The male and female toilets originally located at the interchange have been enclosed by water and horses due to the sharp drop in the number of people, and will be closed until further notice. FEHD Instead, a pair of mobile toilets have been installed nearby for public use. Some outsourced cleaners said that the public toilets have been out of use for a long time, and the utilization rate of mobile toilets is not high, which is worse than the utilization rate before the epidemic. land.
Multiple passes of the Royal Bus are overdue and not renewed, and the body is dusty
Because the Royal Bus has been out of service for many years, all parked at the Shunli Da parking lot opposite the Royal Bus Station. The surface of the body and windshield is covered with dust. The door is long so that dead leaves float into the car. After the restricted area driving license expired in April and December 2020, there was no application for renewal, and the open-air parking lot was allowed to be exposed to the sun, and there was no time to wait for the reopening of China and Hong Kong.
Zhang Jianping, secretary general of the Hong Kong-Guangdong Direct Bus Association, said that the cross-border passenger service between China and Hong Kong has been completely suspended since the beginning of February 2020, and more than 1,000 direct buses and about 1,000 straddle-vehicle seven-passenger vehicles have been parked at Stonecutters Island and Shenzhen. The parking lot of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge and the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge are covered with dust, pointing out that even if the "0+3" or even "0+0" quarantine requirements are implemented, as long as the China-Hong Kong customs clearance is not released for one day, the direct bus will not be able to restart the service, "Yes ( Food and Beverage) industry words "0+3" quarantine means the darkness before dawn, we are so patient in the darkness, we haven't even seen the light."
Zhang pointed out that another point of concern is that since the implementation of the "0+3" entry quarantine measures, the demand for flights has increased significantly, but the airlines can still maintain some capacity during the epidemic, but after the direct bus service is zero, Grassroots employees such as drivers, ticket collectors, etc. have already transferred to other service industries. Once the China-Hong Kong customs clearance is implemented, the direct bus will start from scratch, and it will inevitably be robbed of people with high salaries. They worry that they will not be able to cope with the surge in the demand for customs clearance in China and Hong Kong in the future, and will be robbed of people due to salary increases. This greatly increases the financial pressure on cross-border passenger transport companies, and urges the government to take precautionary measures and formulate contingency plans as soon as possible, including providing subsidies to the industry through the Anti-epidemic Fund, or extending the 15-year limit on the service period of Diesel King buses, so as to avoid "new cars before they land and operate in vain." There is no three-year depreciation period.”
In the (catering) industry, "0+3" quarantine means the darkness before dawn, and we are so patient in the darkness that we haven't even seen the light.
Zhang Jianping, Secretary General of the Hong Kong-Guangdong Direct Bus Association
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