Melbourne's zone system. worse;eg, if travelling 1 train stop
between Zone 1&2, got to pay zones 1+2 fare. On the other side
of the coin for HK fare system, for eg from Tsim Sha Shui to
Mongkok which is quite a short distance. Only can travel on certain
routes (min HK4.40?) to minimise fare expense. If take a route
which just started; you end up paying the max fare for that route.
As compared to sg DBTF, you can take any of the duplicating routes
and fares's the same. correct me if I'm wrong.
One thing i like about the HK's fare system is that it allows
travel time to be kept to a minimum if you are going somewhere far
on trunk routes.
For example, from Mongkok to Jordan, the cheapest way is to take
the svcs that cost $4.40 as u mentioned. This reduces the
loading/pax on cross harbour services so there basically wont be
high turnover rate on those services, which in turn makes the
journey faster.
Take that into sg's context, would you want to take 502 from
boon lay to jurong east/chinese garden? or take some other services
like 99 or 187, etc. This helps 502 pick up pax who really need to
board it and not waste time alighting pax who's just going
intratown. Of course, there's still people willing to pay $1.30
(double) for that few stops.
