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West Rail vs. Bus - Lingnan University Library

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Table 5.4.3 ANOVA between place of living and reasons of not choosing WR<br />

Mean F Sig.<br />

Reason of not choosing WR - stations are not convenient Live near west rail station 5.14 6.087 .016<br />

Live far away west rail station 5.96<br />

Reason of not choosing WR - slow Live near west rail station 4.32 1.939 .168<br />

Live far away west rail station 4.87<br />

Reason of not choosing WR - not safe Live near west rail station 2.27 6.487 .013<br />

Live far away west rail station 2.98<br />

Reason of not choosing WR - not trustworthy Live near west rail station 2.86 2.763 .101<br />

Live far away west rail station 3.35<br />

Reason of not choosing WR - not enough feeder service Live near west rail station 3.59 2.407 .125<br />

Live far away west rail station 4.22<br />

2. Segment by home location (District of <strong>West</strong> New Territories)<br />

In this part, respondents are segmented into three groups according to<br />

different district in the <strong>West</strong> New territories. Yuen Long district include Kam Tin,<br />

Yuen Long (Others), Yuen Long Town centre and Long Ping. Tin Shui Wai district<br />

include Tin Shui Wai North and South and Hung Shui Kiu. Other place like Siu Lam<br />

and Tuen Mun (Others) are grouped as Tuen Mun district.<br />

Table 5.4.4 show the crosstabulation between the place of living which<br />

grouped by different district in <strong>West</strong> New Territories of residents and the<br />

transportation mode. The figure shows that passengers in Tuen Mun district prefer to<br />

take bus than <strong>West</strong> <strong>Rail</strong>. The percentage of passengers choose to take bus is 16%<br />

more than the other two district. Although the figure is not so significant, it support<br />

the different in the transportation mode different that bus are much more popular in<br />

Tuen Mun district than in Yuen Long and Tin Shui Wai District.<br />

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