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MTR fares should be adjusted according to operator’s profits (which means lowering them)

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  1. #21

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ofnpanad:
    $46.6 for the canny traveller!

    (If you want to save a few $ you get the "wrong" train - ie Lok Ma Chau when you want to go to Lo Wu. Get off and swipe out at Sheung Shui, come straight back in again and take the next train to your actual desired border crossing stop).

    All this aside, MTR is damn cheap - any accusations otherwise are from expats who mentally equate HKD to USD or GBP values. That said, if they make a ton of money it wouldn't hurt to demonstrably give something back with better facilities or, the minimum effort solution, lower fares.
    Why is it then that they don't sell MTR tourist cards to non tourists ?
    Or do they offer any meaningful day pass for the whole network

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    Quote Originally Posted by Castlevania:
    The discounts and promotions they have here make me laugh a bit, like walking 15 minutes to a hidden spot in a hidden commercial building to get 2 HK$ off.
    Actually, it is the shopping centre operators paying MTR to place a discount machine in their preferred spots, hoping to attract patronage and hence generate more business

  3. #23

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    Quote Originally Posted by pin:
    Related question. Should MTR as a property developer be separated from MTR as a transport operator?
    NO

    The MTR should be broken into THREE

    1) Track infrastructure
    2) Train operating company (ies)
    3) Property developer


    At the moment the MTRc has a near monopoly on the trains that run on the tracks. The only exception are a few rickety old Mainland trains that go straight to Guangzhou. By separating the track from the operating of trains time slots could be be auctioned off to the highest bidder enabling a better return. Also when the Northern Link from Kam Sheng Road to Lu Wu / Futian Ko An is finally built more mainland trains could have access to HK tracks improving the link between N.T. West and Shenzhen (sadly this will never happen).
    Last edited by East_coast; 28-10-2016 at 09:30 PM.
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