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Hong Kong’s 99 metro stations are all identified by their own individual colour scheme. The idea was originally meant to help illiterate travellers find their stops, according to Andrew Mead, the chief architect of the city’s Mass Transit Railway system better known as the MTR. The colours of each station are derived from the surrounding environment, or take cues from the Chinese names of the stations. The stations’ vivid hues and the use of calligraphy and public art all help to give each station its own vibrant character, explains Post reporter Alkira Reinfrank.
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I love Hong Kong so much .
Nice colour selections, and efficient public transportation.
Love MTR❤ Love Hong Kong❤
HK MTR 🚉
Singapore MRT 🚉
The stations of mainland metro stations look very futuristic and also use lots of colours
South China Morning Post showed an interview with Margaret Cho saying when Asians want to be productive they really want to be White. SCMP seems to agree with this antiwhiteism racism. Do they believe this is Asian self-hatred too?
another thing you can thank British colonialism for
The original Chinese meaning for Diamond Hill is "Drilling the Rocked Hill", not the area is produce Diamond, the Chinese 鑽 is used as a verb for drilling, not as a noun for Diamond.
Coz in the past, the hill nearby Diamond Hill Station, the original "Diamond Hill" is a quarry zone for rock for building work and settle new land for development. Now, the old quarry area become as Fung Tak Estate and Po Kong Village Park and School Village, where the area at south of Po Kong Village Road and north of Fung Tak Road.
Due to crystals of the rocks mined from the area, having a diamond-like/shiny luminance, or the shape of the hill look like a diamond, these two reasons also ownable story for the name of Diamond Hill.
Can we have this in Philippines? Please help us 😭
1:47 will also be the last station, China using yellow, as it’ll also remind them of the brutality riots and massacres from 26 September 2014 – 2019
1:06 I think using the colour concept is future proof, from during the days of illiterate to advance cosmopolitan and now back to being illiterate China mainlanders.
Sadly the uniqueness of hk has diminished rapidly in the past few years, it will become just ordinary city of China….
Bad accent
Very cool.
I find it weird that they are describing this as colourful, HAHA. Not that they are wrong at all, but rather, I grew up using the colors to remember which station to get off at.
I am only realising for the first time ever, that they really are colourful, lol.
As an ex-flight attendant, who last flew in March 2020, this makes me miss Hong Kong so much!
But color blind says otherwise
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Seriously. metro stations in China looks more fancier than HK MTR.
1:03 illiterate 😂😂😂😂 that's what they call to tourists? So arrogant
Hong Kong is an amazing full of life 👍🥰
I love how much effort put into them and designing
Why are many government jobs and high seats in a company dressed with white people ? Stop picking whites before own race. In Europe they will never let so many foreigners be in these high positions.
i see…………….
Very beautiful city.
Fun Fact:Causeway Bay (銅鑼灣) is the only Bright Pink Station in the MTR
i am from hk i know all stations
i think the colour are just decorations they look cool
If the northern line gets built, the 100th station would be included
5 stations that are a south Island line
All the best of Hong Kong were brought by the United Kingdom. Meanwhile, Mainland China only brings bad luck, decline and trash.
MTR is so colorful is not because of Hong Kong’s lifeblood. As I’m a Hong Konger, people in few generations before are not common to know words. So the MTR make colors on each single station and the same color won’t repeat nearby, so they are able to know what station they are at. And it’s still convenience for me now, as I could know where am I when I see the color outside instead of looking at the station name.
fun fact: the original ind stations in the nyc subway used a color mosaic tile scheme so passengers could easily identify what station and section of line they were at
for example, stations between queens plaza and roosevelt av had red tiles while tiles were blue between roosevelt av and continental av
Me and the Metro enthusiasts when Singapore TEL4 opens:
I Love hong kong. I miss you hong kong❤❤❤❤