10/16 - Systemwide MTR delays this morning, avoid if at all possible

[justjoe86]

Not usually reliable actually.I have avoided peak hours MTR and road travel since many years ago.

It's funny how from one comment i can tell you're a local Hong Konger haha.

[justjoe86]

The East Rail has the most incidents among all the lines. Other lines also have problems sometimes. The East Rail seems to be the most packed during rush hours, with seats being almost full filled by people living in Shenzhen going to HK for work or school in the morning. And then a big crowd joinng the line from the Ma On Shan Line at Tai Wai. Kowloon Tong and Mong Kok Station extremely packed with a few million people in the morning coming from Shenzhen and NT changing lines at the stations.

Suspicion confirmed! Just use the word

[shri]

All fixed ...

At 11.45am on Tuesday, the MTR said the trains were now running every four minutes during non-peak hours.

An unprecedented four lines – the Island Line, Tsuen Wan Line, Kwun Tong Line and Tseung Kwan O Line – had been hit by severe delays. The MTR called on commuters to use other forms of public transport after journey times were extended by 40 minutes on some of the lines.

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/...-rail-operator

[bdw]

I heard the MTR did an IT upgrade to their signalling system last night, something wasn’t right so they decided to roll back to the old one, but then this fucked up and they couldn’t restart the old one. Sounds like one @shri ‘s geoexpat upgrades

[shri]

Sounds like one @shri ‘s geoexpat upgrades

Indeed ... roll out first, test later.

Wait till we do our next migration when Google's HK Data Center is up and running...

And then wait till we move to cloud functions!

[flameproof]

And why was car traffic really bad this morning? Any idea?

[East_coast]

All fixed ...

I popped into Jordon MTR station about 9:15 this morning. There was a single file queue of around 200 people going into the paid area through the only open turnstile.

Given the supposed travel chaos it was a picture of calm. Well done MTR and the Hong Kong public this was handled very well from what I could see.

[freeier]

And why was car traffic really bad this morning? Any idea?

when you have a quarter of a network system that is handling 50% of hong kong's peak hour traffic broke down, and everyone started trying to change travelling norm, plus rain (which generally increases demand of taxi), the traffic congestion just builds up..

agree is crowded.. i really wonder sometimes why those that are complaining crowded, and holds a foreign passport (e.g. AU/CAD/UK, which essentially takes a high percentage of HK residence), stays in hk.

[flameproof]

But this morning seemed Clearwater Bay Rd came to a total standstill down to Choi Hung. Never had that before. I gave up though and went back.

[hullexile]

To put this into perspective


https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-...lflow_facebook