{"id":359,"date":"2016-10-11T10:24:13","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T10:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/stemitl\/?p=359"},"modified":"2016-10-11T10:24:13","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T10:24:13","slug":"mass-transit-railway-mtr-in-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/stemitl\/2016\/10\/11\/mass-transit-railway-mtr-in-hong-kong\/","title":{"rendered":"Mass Transit Railway (MTR) in Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever noticed that Hong Kong is a fast-paced city where people are constantly on the go and life can get a bit hectic? The most important public transport to Hong Kongers must be MTR which is a railway system (mostly underground) in Hong Kong. It has a complicated railway network which is connected everywhere. We rely on it for going to school or work on time. Our daily life would be definitely messed up if the train service is a delay.<\/p>\n<p>MTR is fast and convenient. But the rising MTR fee\u00a0has always been the issue of complaint for a long time. And it never gets any better. According to an article in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/business\/2016\/06\/21\/hong-kong-is-worlds-most-expensive-global-city-for-expats---as-l\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Telegraph<\/a> on JUN 2016, Hong Kong is now the most expensive place for foreign workers to live. And I think the transportation fee is one of the factors for this &#8220;achievement&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Channesa<\/p>\n<p>SKH Bishop Baker Secondary School<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-360\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/stemitl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2016\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2016-10-08-at-15.00.35-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"whatsapp-image-2016-10-08-at-15-00-35\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/stemitl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2016\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2016-10-08-at-15.00.35-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/stemitl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2016\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2016-10-08-at-15.00.35-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/stemitl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2016\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2016-10-08-at-15.00.35-644x859.jpeg 644w, https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/stemitl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2016\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2016-10-08-at-15.00.35-113x150.jpeg 113w, https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/stemitl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2016\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2016-10-08-at-15.00.35.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yuen Long MTR station<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever noticed that Hong Kong is a fast-paced city where people are constantly on the go and life can get a bit hectic? The most important public transport to Hong Kongers must be MTR which is a railway system (mostly underground) in Hong Kong. It has a complicated \u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/stemitl\/2016\/10\/11\/mass-transit-railway-mtr-in-hong-kong\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":339,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hong-kong-life"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/stemitl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/stemitl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/stemitl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/stemitl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/339"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/stemitl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/stemitl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":361,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/stemitl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions\/361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/stemitl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/stemitl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/stemitl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}