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    Quote Originally Posted by civil_servant:
    The actual vehicle count is between 3-4000 as of January. These numbers are based on a trial scheme to ensure a smooth opening of the bridge. It's not an indicator for demand at all. It's a massive project that overcomes huge technical and administrative hurdles. Opening it slowly and not having to deal with major traffic issues or accidents in the early stages is entirely sensible.

    On February 25, 2019 all dual license plate holder with permits for Lok Ma Chau (Huanggang), Man Kam To and Sha Tau Kok were able to use the bridge.

    By April 29, 2019 all dual license plate holder with permits for Shenzhen Bay port will be able to use the bridge.

    Rules for goods transport are still being worked out. Once in the clear, traffic numbers should get a big boost.
    The projected numbers were to be between 11000 and 16000 at the opening so that's still a far cry from it. As I said, you can choose to be wildly optimistic as you seem to be but the reality doesn't validate that. Only time will tell if projections and actual numbers get closer. As I said, all governments sell their vanity projects with promises of riches to come as is often the case with things like the Olympics and World Cup but they often fall short of delivering. Whether or not people think they are worth it becomes a matter of interpretation.

    I do believe that it would be better to get the population involved when making these kind of massive investment but that's simply not realistic in a place like HK. They barely manage to do it in some democracies so it's simply not going to happen in this part of the world where power always knows best. This is the place where the CO publicly said that poor people were not competent enough to vote...

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    Spoke to a colleague at an overseas event last week. He does not live in HK. He said "I've flown into HK a few times in the past few weeks - looked down as we land and only ever see a few buses... does nobody use that bridge then?".

    I see the same when I fly over it. A few buses.

    It's the classic definition of a White Elephant. Having said that, will be interested to see if I can get to the airport faster when the Tuen Mun link opens!

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    Quote Originally Posted by HK_Katherine:
    Spoke to a colleague at an overseas event last week. He does not live in HK. He said "I've flown into HK a few times in the past few weeks - looked down as we land and only ever see a few buses... does nobody use that bridge then?".

    I see the same when I fly over it. A few buses.

    It's the classic definition of a White Elephant. Having said that, will be interested to see if I can get to the airport faster when the Tuen Mun link opens!
    The tuen mun to chek lap kok tunnel will be great, presumably reasonably priced, I expect around HK$20-25 and it will open in 2 years time, it's better than the expensive tai lam bridge which at HK$48 is a rip off and it will save around 12 mins time from current journey of 38mins from fanling to airport using this new tunnel and distance will also be close at around 32km as oppose to current distance at around 46km

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    Quote Originally Posted by Edwardstorm:
    And in February that number fell to 3.429 combined for the entire month. Another well executed project by the HK government.

    Trucks shunning Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge ‘because of unclear rules’
    https://sc.mp/cuocwi
    you would think they would have figured this out before you know, opening the bridge?

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    I use it very occasionally to go to Zhuhai. I see very little cars on the bridge when I'm on there, so in the same section about 2-3 cars. Do pass by some buses though, since they are limited to a lower speed limit. Compared to taking the boat it's a much easier proposition for me to even just take the bus. But yeah this bridge is largely a symbolic umbilical cord right now. Doesn't make sense to me since Hong Kong is connected physically to Shenzhen.

    Bridge is massively expensive but pretty useless. It always was going to be that way though IMO. Not sure why people are surprised. But you know, lots of expats got paid real well to make this happen.

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    Off to Macau for the GP in a couple of weeks. I fancy doing the bus again but last time I found it a pain getting from the Macau immigration point into the centre. Has that improved in the last year?


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    Quote Originally Posted by Pauljoecoe:
    Off to Macau for the GP in a couple of weeks. I fancy doing the bus again but last time I found it a pain getting from the Macau immigration point into the centre. Has that improved in the last year?
    Easy enough to hail a cab, they are lined up on the right side after you leave the immigration building.

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    Did you take the public bus or the casino shuttle bus ?


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    Quote Originally Posted by mrgoodkat:
    Easy enough to hail a cab, they are lined up on the right side after you leave the immigration building.
    How much does a cab cost from the immigration building into Macau's centre?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Elegiaque:
    How much does a cab cost from the immigration building into Macau's centre?
    It's about 80 MOP to Senado Square
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