A behind-the-scenes look at Hong Kong’s MTR, the city’s transport lifeline
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Hong Kong's MTR railway system is considered one of the best in the world, moving more than half the city’s population daily. It has been praised for its safety and punctuality, and in 2023 completed 99.9 per cent of its passenger journeys on time. For 45 years, the iconic transport network has been a crucial lifeline for the city. As the MTR celebrates its anniversary, the Post visited one of its nine train depots and the Operations Control Centre in Tsing Yi which functions as the "brain" overseeing complex railway services.
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The Mtr has almost zero delays and interruptions in a busy city. People who have not lived in other countries don't realise how exceptional that is - probably the best transport system in the world!!
Its also same company that makes a few other large cities MTR. You can get a phone signal in the train. Even through tunnel.
fr no
The locals don’t appreciate this and call for blood whenever a minor incident occurs.
@@trueseeker262including Queen Elizabeth Line in London!
almost zero delays and one head-to-head collision
I just visited this Hong Kong this December 20th and stayed there until 27th. In my whole visit, my main mode of transportation is MTR and I could say that MTR is extremely efficient and one of the best in the world. I never had a bad experience with it. I enjoyed it every time I ride it. The fare is cheap for me but their stations and trains are well-maintained and cleaned.
The folks who work at the MTR have so much pride in their transit system. This is why it's one of the best subways in the world. My heart broke for them in 2019. So happy to see everything is repaired and back to its world class standard.
The reason in 2019 cuz MTR belongs to the government so that's why
@@swaggyt4779 what happened with teh MTR in 2019?
@KuostA protesters shut down stations and try to stop people for going work to let the government face the problem in 2019.
visited Hong Kong and got a chance to use their MTR and it was amazing. I miss it already
As a Hong Konger they are doing their best and is the best metro in the world to me
The fact that MTR metro is the best in the world right now.
Would have liked to learn more about the maintenance. But yes as a tourist that visits every 4 years, have never experienced any delays or malfunction on the MTR
Hong Kong Transport system probably one of the best in the world. From the bus to tram and the mtr of course. The stations are well maintained, interconnected in every part of hong kong, ride is smooth and fast i can easily use my contactless cards. Everytime I went there I make sure i have the nearest mtr where I checked in.
HK’s MTR system is clean,reliable, and safe. It doesn’t get much better than that. 😊
Love how they’re covering not so commonly thought of stories, really brings more insight into things from our daily lives
Amazing.🎉
PERFECT NEW YEARS EVE VIDEO!
Big like! Hello from Bucharest, Romania - a huge underrated city in Europe:)
Godspeed. Best wishes
One of the best things about HK.
I love mtr
MTR is a gem
99.9% passenger journey on-time performance 🤯
Highly efficient always on time never late not like western train systems
There has been an increase in hiccups, but it's still the most reliable rail in the world.
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Bruh I’m watching this in Kowloon bay station lol
Hong Kong mtr is the busiest subway in the world
when someone said their coworkers are like their family
and proceed to call them my staff
then you know that person is just a liar
agreed! That’s the only thing I didn’t like about the video
when you heard your boss tell you "we all work together as a family". RUN.
No workers will sacrifice their personal life nowdays for work, if they do. this only tell they do not have work life balance and their working enviroment are toxic
not for Asians lol.
The MTR staffs deserves a house in Hong Kong for keeping the MTR running like clockwork.
The English ascent of this reporter is soso😢... Miss the old SCMP standard.
Getting up early to prepare rolling stock for safe operation is called work, saying it is 'so professional' for doing your job is kinda weird to say the least, and if preparing train for the operation requires staff to "sacrifice some of their personal life" (if that implies overtime before/after your hours) to conduct pre-operation routine its pure mismanagement. Ofc there are people who loves their jobs to the level of coming early, leaving late without urge for compensation but those are exceptions out of rule
1:27 How do you define the busiest railway in the world?
I thought the same thing. There is no way in the world Hong Kong has the busiest metro system in the world. It wouldn’t even be in the top 10.
1:31 - “5 million passenger trips a day”!
The Island Line is probably the most intensively used line in the world. 31 trains per hour in the morning peak with 2500+ people per train gives at least 77500 people per hour.
Most other busy lines in the world have lower frequency and/or smaller trains.
frequency: train arrive in every 2 mins during rush hour.
It's probably defined in a similar way to per capita statistics. For example, the Shanghai Metro serves somewhere around 10mln passengers every day, more than the MTR. But this is done over 410 stations, compared to the MTR's 99 stations. So while yes, Shanghai serves more people, the average metro station in Hong Kong is significantly busier than the average metro station in Shanghai. (50k/day in HK vs 24k/day in Shanghai)
I wish Canada have something like this 😢
Canada does have transit control centres for all majority regional railway or metro, Toronto has the Toronto Transit Commission Control Centre, Vancouver has the TransLink OCC, Montreal has the STM operations centre
@@gabrielmataleo4573 Let me know when TTC and Skytrain reach frequency and efficiency level of the MTR.
They have more screens than Nasa!
The English is very Hong Kong Style 😅
hong kongs mtr sounds like the busiest network of the city! 🙂
Go to guang zhou for train
Saying depot differently
This reporter needs to work on his English.
This should put SG to shame. Not to mention the fare. Kudos to the MTR.
Wdym?
Work together as a family lol
Perhaps it relates to the management only.
Most people in the operations are just minding their own business.
The job nature is ok though but the management style is terrible.
I love you so much china ❤😊
Hong Kong is the best
why is Chinese better than western at railway?
Can't find a better English speaker to narrate the video?
No need
Name actually cheaks out
“The MTR busiest railway in the world.” Seriously? Why state such a blatant lie.
Has Cherie Lee never heard of the bigger and busier metro systems in Tokyo, Shanghai, Seoul, Moscow, Beijing, Guangzhou or even New York????
bigger≠busier
@__________________________947 9 million passengers a day in Moscow vs. 5 million passengers a day in Hong Kong.
Tokyo moves 10 million a day.
Shanghai moves 10 million a day.
Even New York moves more people a day on its subway.
Hong Kong is nowhere near the busiest metro/subway system in the world.
@@greenmagicdragon c
@greenmagicdragon it’s more about the size of the network and how many trains run, Hong Kong is very small 7 million population (5 million literally is 5/7), serving 98 stations and yet trains come every 3 minutes. Also you would not believe how packed EVERY SINGLE one of those 98 stations are each 3 minute wait. (You would basically going through a mall but everybody goes in 2 directions) New York by comparison is almost empty.
@ryanlee5512I actually genuinely agree with you and finally some one who l found in the comment section that actually has a functioning brain for once and this world actually genuinely needs more people actually like you in this world.
First
Indian is bad actor 😂
Japan is better
We don't have women only carriages in HK 😂
You're that person, huh? There's always someone or something better
japan glazers 💀💀💀you are not welcome in japan
There's two metro systems in the world, Japan and others.
@@Johnson-g5q 😭😭😭