How are bus sites impossible? All you need to do is click on a map to mark start and stop, works for KMB (linked above) and NWFB.
How are bus sites impossible? All you need to do is click on a map to mark start and stop, works for KMB (linked above) and NWFB.
I'm with DeletedUser here....I mean on the bus website they even provide pictures of each bus stop...what more can they do?
The KMB site has always been very good and at least offers options, although sometimes confusingly if you do not know the area, on where to start/stop.
When taking a bus to a new place, the worst thing is knowing which bus stop you're currently at.
The stops have the name printed, in a small font on the sign - basically impossible to read unless you're within 2m of the sign.
_some_ buses have electronic signs advising the next stop, but even though they've been under 'testing' for a couple of years now, they are not on every bus and I can guarantee you, when you are going somewhere for the first time, you'll be on a bus without said electronic sign.
Well, fair to say I'm internet literate and am actually on the nwbus website for a while. However, still could not figure out the bus stop for the address on Deep Water Bay road, even though on Google map, it clearly shows a bus or minibus stop within 200m.
While HK's public transportation maybe fairly extensive, I take exception to the assertion that it's "world class". For instance, I have yet to find any address in New York that I cannot go to via public transit, old and dirty as they maybe.
Of course your mileage may vary. (The MTR staff I encountered did not smile, nor did they provide a map or anything.) And being snarky doesn't help clueless newcomers.
Well, my worst experience is buses for opposite directions stop at the exact same stop! Statue Square stop, that is. The bus number just eluded me but I was going to midlevels west (HKU) and got on the same number bus going the opposite way. A fellow passenger helped me out, but not without a quip, "only in HK"!