Free Ride Day 2014 - All trams and Star Ferry routes for free!

[Editor]

Get ready to ride two of Hong Kong’s most iconic forms of transportation for free on May 29! All trams and Star Ferry routes (Tsim Sha Tsui to Wan Chai/Central) will be running for free, making it almost a crime to miss out on Free Ride Day.

More info: GeoINSIDER

So... which historic mode of transport do you have a soft spot for? The tram or the ferry?

Image cred: Wikipedia

[shri]

Ferry .. has some amount of airconditioning.

Watching tourists spend time taking photos and not actually enjoying the view is an added bonus.

Added: The free ride day will make it easier for the folks to travel over from the Dark Side, to the Globe for Happy Hour.

[Claire ex-ax]

I remember seeing the tram for the first time (was in Central) and being told that it used to run along the coastline. Thinking "wtf where did all this land come from?". And now there's even more of it.

A friend has some old postcards, old as in ones that are hand-coloured, of the tramline at North Point. The trams ran alongside a beach!!

[Claire ex-ax]

And back when I was a smoker, it was a dash to the smoking end of the Star Ferry...

[transit]

I remember seeing the tram for the first time (was in Central) and being told that it used to run along the coastline. Thinking "wtf where did all this land come from?". And now there's even more of it.

A friend has some old postcards, old as in ones that are hand-coloured, of the tramline at North Point. The trams ran alongside a beach!!

Are you saying they moved the rail lines inland or they made more land and pushed the coastline out?

[transit]

This will be great to save $2-3 a trip. I might spend the day catching lots of ferries and trams to really make it add up.

[Claire ex-ax]

Are you saying they moved the rail lines inland or they made more land and pushed the coastline out?

The tramlines stayed where they were. Land to the north of the track is 'new'.

[Claire ex-ax]

Not as one as my friend's postcards, but this is how close the tram was at Kennedy Town.

[Claire ex-ax]

Seems it also used to run along Gloucester Road.

[HowardCoombs]

This is North Point. The building in the picture is on Kornhill.