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Monthly Archives: January 2015
Occupy Central and the Hong Kong Tramways
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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Tagged Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong Tramways, Occupy Central, rail operations, trams, Umbrella Revolution
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Railway depots and Hong Kong property development
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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Tagged Hong Kong, KCR, Kowloon Canton Railway, Mass Transit Railway, MTR, property development, rail operations, railway, real estate
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