Thanks for the Inconvenience

From the "What the Hell were they thinking" file comes the new interchange at the MTR's Hung Hom station.

Instead of leaving the East Rail line alone, it now has both the East and West Rail lines transferring at Hung Hom just to get to East Tsim Sha Tsui, creating confusion, chaos and a bottleneck.

A check at the MTR's web site shows travel time from the central New Territories increasing by 10 minutes. My trial run from East TST tacked on an additional 12 minutes and was exasperating. Depending on one's destination, one must either cross the platform or head up one escalator and down another to reach a separate platform.

People heading to or from the border stations at Lo Wu or Lok Ma Chau now have the option of wasting time at East TST and Hung Hom (as the trains now run less frequently), or return to being crammed like sardines on the Tsuen Wan and Tiu Keng Leng lines via Kowloon Tong.

Of the change, the MTR's web site states: "... every journey you make will be easier, faster and more enjoyable."

I didn't find it to be that at all.

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