June 8, 2018

Urbanist Abroad: Day 4 – Hong Kong

Hong Kong’s public transit system is like the island territory’s central nervous system — essential to everything — and yet there’s also a dark side.

What’s the link between transportation and new housing development, and to what degree is the local transit authority actually part of the problem? Price Tags editor-in-chief Gordon Price captures some of the drama.

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  1. You might try checking out MTR’s South Island Line
    – which is a driverless “Medium Capacity” subway that opened in late 2016.

    Apparently it has trains that are only 3 cars long.
    It would be interesting to see if the “look and feel” is similar to the Canada Line.

    Here’s the wiki entry:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Island_line

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