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I love transportation in hk

Tuesday, March 20, 2007

What I like so far in Hong Kong is the transportation. It’s a city of 10 times less territory and twice more people as Lithuania. But I have been only in two traffic jams since I have arrived here [In Lithuania I was getting into traffic jam every morning]. Maybe I was lucky going at some good times, when there is no traffic jams in the city, maybe I got good place to live [according transportation]. I live near the “transportation spot” – just on the next street there is entrance to MTR [underground], Tram stop [tram goes along Hong Kong Island], minibus and bus stops.

To my work I usually take minibus No. 69. Minibus is a bus with 16 seats and when they are full no one is allowed to enter – there are no standing places available. The reason for that is very simple, because they o fast :) and it’s really fast because sometimes they reach 70-80 km/h in the city. And when you go on a narrow bridge – road it doesn’t feel too slow, believe me. There are two types of minibus: green and red, so my main experience is with green ones, but they say that the red ones are going even faster. The verdict: minibus drivers are the same, a bit crazy in every country.

Thus I am satisfied with the transportation as it takes approximately the same time to go to work as it was taking in Lithuania: around 25-30 minutes. And I am sitting and resting, not standing in overcrowded trolley-bus :)

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