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Tâi-lô. Káng-thih. The Mass Transit Railway ( MTR) is a major public transport network serving Hong Kong. Operated by the MTR Corporation (MTRCL), it consists of heavy rail, light rail, and feeder bus services, centred around a 10-line rapid transit network, serving the urbanised areas of Hong Kong Island, Kowloon, and the New Territories.
Several future projects on the MTR have been put forward by the MTR Corporation to the Hong Kong Government. Some of these are still in planning stage. With the rail merger with the Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation in 2007, the combined network increased to 211.6 kilometres (131.5 mi) and 84 stations. Committed and future railway projects ...
The first mode of rail transport for the public in Hong Kong was the Peak Tram, serving The Peak (at Victoria Gap ), the Mid-Levels and the city centre since 1888. This was followed by the Mount Parker Cable Car in 1892, but this system was terminated in 1932 and dismantled. The tram started service along the northern coast of the Hong Kong ...
The Mass Transit Railway Corporation ( Chinese: 地下鐵路公司) was established on 22 September 1972 as a government-owned statutory corporation to build and operate a mass transit railway system to meet Hong Kong's public transport needs. On 30 June 2000, the MTRC was succeeded by the MTR Corporation Limited (MTRCL, 地下鐵路有限公司 ).
The Standard is an English-language free newspaper in Hong Kong with a daily circulation of 200,450 in 2012. [2] It was formerly called the Hongkong Standard [4] and changed to HKiMail during the Internet boom [when?] but partially reverted to The Standard in 2001.
Olympic station. / 22.3178°N 114.1602°E / 22.3178; 114.1602. Olympic is a station on the Tung Chung line of Hong Kong's MTR. The livery is dodger blue. The station was originally named Tai Kok Tsui in proposals outlined by the government in the Airport Core Programme during the 1990s. In 1996, however, when Lee Lai-shan won the first ...
The South Island line ( Chinese: 南港島綫 ), is a rapid transit line of Hong Kong 's MTR metro system. This line connects the Hong Kong business district from Admiralty station to the Southern District of Hong Kong Island and the island of Ap Lei Chau, which was not served by any rail transport prior to the opening of the line. [2]
Changing sign of East Tsim Sha Tsui station after merger. Two Hong Kong railway companies merged operations in 2007: the Kowloon–Canton Railway Corporation (KCRC), which operated the Kowloon–Canton Railway (KCR), and the MTR Corporation Limited (MTRCL), which operated the Mass Transit Railway (MTR).