Hong Kong’s subway system is a people-moving marvel.
Every day it racks up 5.8 million rides, about half of all trips made daily on public transport in the city of 7 million people. It’s more profitable than any other subway system in the world, and literally 99.9% of its trains run on time. When cities build a modern train network, Hong Kong is often where they send people on a pilgrimage.
(Not to take a dig at New York City, again, but in comparison New York’s subway trains are on time about 60% of the time.)
But a six-hour service disruption on Tuesday has shaken the Hong Kong subway operator’s reputation and thrown all these superlatives into question.
It was done by the computers
Tony L
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Oct 17, 2018