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Making my way downtown |
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Walking fast, faces pass and I'm homebound |
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Staring blankly ahead |
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Just making my way |
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Making a way through the crowd |
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And I need you |
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And I miss you |
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And now I wonder |
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If I could fall into the sky |
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Do you think time would pass me by? |
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Cause you know I'd walk a thousand miles |
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If I could just see you tonight |
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It's always times like these |
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When I think of you |
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And wonder if you ever think of me |
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Cause everything's so wrong and I don't belong |
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Living in your precious memory |
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Cause I need you |
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And I miss you |
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And now I wonder |
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If I could fall into the sky |
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Do you think time would pass me by? |
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Cause you know I'd walk a thousand miles |
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If I could just see you tonight |
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And I, I don't wanna let you know |
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I, I drown in your memory |
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I, I don't wanna let this go |
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I, I don't |
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Making my way downtown |
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Walking fast, faces pass and I'm homebound |
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Staring blankly ahead, just making my way |
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Making a way through the crowd |
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And I still need you |
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And I still miss you |
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And now I wonder |
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If I could fall into the sky |
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Do you think time would pass me by? |
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Cause you know I'd walk a thousand miles |
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If I could just see you, oh, oh |
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If I could fall into the sky |
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Do you think time would pass me by? |
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Cause you know I'd walk a thousand miles |
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If I could just see you |
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If I could just hold you tonight |
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== Public bus == |
== Public bus == |
Revision as of 09:14, 4 May 2021
Hong Kong is an important port in the Far East, and has relied on entrepôt trade to survive its economy for more than a century.
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Early history
Tuen Mun, a name that is used to refer to the western part of the modern-day territory of Hong Kong, was a military camp and naval base during the Tang Dynasty of China since 621 AD. The territory of Tuen Mun by then extends from western Shenzhen in the Guangdong Province of the People's Republic of China (PRC) to western Kowloon in Hong Kong.
Rail transport
Tramways
When the British crown colony of Hong Kong began on the Hong Kong Island in 1842, there was no public transport. The first mode of public transport was the Peak Tram, a funicular railway, operated since 1888. The Hong Kong Tramways, a street-running tram system, started in 1904.
Conventional railway
The Kowloon Peninsula south of the Boundary Street and the Stonecutters Island was ceded by the then ruling dynasty of China, the Ch'ing Dynasty, and was added to the crown colony in 1860; and the New Territories was leased subsequently in 1898.
The Kowloon–Canton Railway (now the East Rail line on the MTR system) was built from the southern tip of Kowloon to Canton (now Guangzhou) in the Kwangtung Province (now Guangdong Province) in the 1900s. The British Section was opened in 1910, and the Chinese Section a year later. This is the first conventional railway in Hong Kong.
Rapid transit
Public bus
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Public bus service was not regulated until 1933, when the Hong Kong Government granted franchises to two bus services companies, the China Motor Bus and the Kowloon Motor Bus.
Water transport
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