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Chapter 1 ‧ Introduction 1.1 Background Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation (KCRC) had started the construction work of KCR West Rail (WR) in October 1998. This 30.5km railway linking between West New Territories and Kowloon was expected to have 350 thousand passengers per day at the beginning and to bring a huge impact on the transportation mode for the residents in West New Territories. The Railway finally opened on 20 th December 2004, but the response of the residents was far from what KCRC had expected. The amount of passengers could only reach 100000 per day at the beginning. Also the impact on bus service in West New Territories was also quite small as compared with the prediction made before. The bus service remains popular among residents. Residents blamed this situation on West Rail for their high fare, inconvenient station locations, and inadequate feeder services. 1
On the other hand, KCRC blamed the situation on Transportation Department for not cutting out some of the overlapping bus routes and suggested that residents were not yet familiar with the new West Rail services. After several months, Transportation Department had started to remove or stop some of the bus routes that overlap with West Rail or have low passengers amount in West New Territories. Also they reduced bus frequency or changed the routing of buses to cope with the opening of West Rail. On the other hand, KCRC introduced several discounts or concessions like one-day pass for students, one-month pass, festival pass and enhancement of feeder services for West Rail to attract passengers. According to a newspaper report ( 羅麗明 , 2004), the passenger amount increased at about 5000 per month. Also the introduction of the one-month pass and the enhancement of feeder services in August led to a great increase of 30,000 passengers ( 文匯報 , 2004). After adopting these measures, the passenger amount increased over 80% to about 180000 per day. Although the passenger amount is still lower than the expectation of KCR, it is believed the passenger amount of KCR West Rail will continuous to increase. It is obvious that discounts, concessions and enhancement of feeder services are great incentives for people to take West Rail. West Rail has made some impact on the choice of transportation mode for residents in West New Territories. 2
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Table 5.2.6 Crosstabulation of age
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have little support for Proposition
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Table 5.3.3 Crosstabulation between
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1. Segment by home location (distan
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the mean percentage. On the other h
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Table 5.4.11 Crosstabulation of the
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Table 5.4.14 Crosstabulation betwee
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For passengers that travel by West
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The first limitation is the sample
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level increases. Second is the pric
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way to increase the coverage and im
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for a faster trip. It is unacceptab
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Long and Tin Shui Wai. But passenge
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d) Tuen Mun (Siu Hong) To/From Siu
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f) Tin Shui Wai (Tin Heng) To/From
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h) Yuen Long Town Centre (Tai Tong
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Appendix 2: The changes in bus serv
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4. 屯門 ( 兆康 ) 前往 /
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8. 元朗市中心前往 /
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Appendix 7: Fare table of West Rail
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