I am a resident of Chevalier Garden but I don't understand why people must take a bus to go to University KCR Station in order to take a northbound KCR East Rail train to Tai Po Mkt and Lo Wu. Why people are so rigid?
In fact they can take a MOS Rail train to Tai Wai in order to take a northbound and southbound KCR train. I am one of the few "weirdos" or "perverts" doing that. But it seems inefficient to do that because the distance traveled is longer. But this does not imply that the time spent is necessarily longer.
People may have made a logical mistake. A longer distance does not necessarily imply the time traveled is longer. We have to take may other factors (speed of the vehicle, frequency etc.) into consideration in order to define what is "convenient".
Don't forget that SP1900 trains (130km/h) are much faster than a bus (~80km/h). And also 289K is already not very frequent. (MOS Rail is much more frequent) I would rather take the MOS train to Tai Wai than waiting for the 289K bus for 10~15 minutes.
And somebody mentioned that the KCR MOS+ER combination is much cheaper than the 289K+ER combination when we tarvel from Tai Shui Hang to Sheung Shui.
And buses are less environmentally freindly than metros. Buses produce air pollution but metros do not. For the sake of the environment (not yourselves), even taking the MOS Rail may be a little bit indirect, we should take the metro whenever we can! The air in HK is alreday poor enough to put off foreigners to stay here. As a responsible HK citizen, sometime we have the sacifice our own "convenience" for the sake of the society. The HK Govt has invested a large sum of money to build the MOS Rail and why should we waste the new metro line?
I personally do not oppose the cancellation of thr route 289K. Using minibus to serve the 289K diehards are alreday far more sufficient.
