Monthly Archives: January 2015

Occupy Central and the Hong Kong Tramways

Posted on January 15, 2015 by Marcus Wong

From September to December 2014 protests occupied many streets across Hong Kong, in what was known as ‘Occupy Central’ or the ‘Umbrella Revolution’. As well as forcing road traffic to take alternate routes, the protests also disrupted tramway services on […]

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Railway depots and Hong Kong property development

Posted on January 7, 2015 by Marcus Wong

With so little free space in Hong Kong, railway depots aren’t just open air railway tracks and workshop facilities, but spaces that combine commercial property developments with the services need to keep the trains running. So how does the MTR Corporation use them to fund new rail projects?

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