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Transport

recommended to enhance the public transport system. The government is implementing these recommendations so the public can enjoy highly efficient, convenient and diversified public transport services.

Rail Transport

MTR

Railways are safe, efficient, reliable, comfortable and environment-friendly mass carriers. Hong Kong's railway system forms the backbone of the public transport system and is essential to the city's continued economic, social and land development. It accounts for about 42 per cent of daily public transport passenger travel and about 55 per cent of land-based passenger trips to the Mainland.

The railway system is run by the MTR Corporation Limited (MTRCL), a publicly listed company of which the government is the majority shareholder. It comprises:

⚫ the Kwun Tong Line (Tiu Keng Leng-Whampoa)

⚫ the Tsuen Wan Line (Tsuen Wan-Central)

• the Island Line (Chai Wan-Kennedy Town)

• the Tung Chung Line (Hong Kong-Tung Chung)

⚫ the Tseung Kwan O Line (Po Lam/Lohas Park-North Point)

• the East Rail Line (Hung Hom-Lo Wu/Lok Ma Chau)

⚫ the West Rail Line (Tuen Mun-Hung Hom)

⚫ the Ma On Shan Line (Wu Kai Sha-Tai Wai)

⚫ the Disneyland Resort Line (Sunny Bay-Disneyland Resort)

⚫ the South Island Line (South Horizons-Admiralty)

⚫ the Airport Express Line (Hong Kong-AsiaWorld-Expo)

The 230.9km system, with 675km of tracks, is made up of 93 heavy rail stations, including a 35.2km Airport Express (track length 70.4km) connecting the urban areas to Hong Kong International Airport and AsiaWorld-Expo, and 68 Light Rail stops spread across a 36.2km network (track length 73km) in the northwest New Territories. The entire system is made more comprehensive through the use of Light Rail feeder buses and carries some 5.5 million passengers on average each day.

In addition, the MTRCL provides intercity through-train services from Hong Kong to Beijing, Shanghai and cities in Guangdong. It carried a daily average of 10,100 travellers in 2017. There

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