West Rail vs. Bus - Lingnan University Library

such value of time.
2.7 Summary
These information and statistics reveal that West Rail has failed in attracting
a certain amount of passengers that they expected. Although the passenger amount is
increasing after several strategies are implemented like enhancement of feeder service
and introducing of one-month pass, the passenger amount is still less than predicted
before. Then can we conclude that West Rail is a failure In my opinion, the answer
can be yes or no. It is true that we only focus on the passenger amount of West Rail
now. It is expected that the West Rail will continue to have loss until the opening of
the two stations in Phrase 2 in 2009. But it is difficult to say that it will have a profit
after the opening of Phrase 2 as the passenger amount now is still far from expected.
It is difficult to double the passenger amount by opening just two stations. On the
other hand, West Rail provides more choices and reduces travel time for some of the
West New Territories residents.
Although some researches try to examine how people choose their
transportation mode, it is not fully suitable for Hong Kong, which has its own
transportation patterns, transportation problems and characteristics of passengers. For
example, value of time of different countries may be different because of the different
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