Summary - Draft 1

In The Straits Time article, "Dubbed 'the best in class': 6 things about Hong Kong's MTR railway system", Khaw (as quoted in Lee, 2015) was full of commendations on Hong Kong's Mass Transit Railway (MTR) and approved that the standards of MTR should be classified as the basic criterion for other countries. There were certain facts about MTR mentioned in the article. Hong Kong's railway pricing is the highest globally and the track of MTR covers a long distance of 221km. In terms of fault occurrence, the MTR encounters a significantly small number of minor delays. Furthermore, 37 per cent of MTRC's earnings were devoted to the rail maintenance. In addition, MTRC is well known for its highly efficient manpower and crowd control measures such as driving a vehicle equipped with ultrasonic techniques to perform routine checks on the long track every couple of days for flaws that are not detectable with human eyes. While many countries have certain areas of aspect to learn from Hong Kong's MTR, it should not be designated as the best in class.