Mtr
- 09-01-2008, 01:44 PM #25Registered User
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Yep I agree that the majority of people on MTR, KCR and on the buses DO NOT offer their seats to the needy. I have been pregnant twice and I can count on my 10 fingers the number of times that I have been offered seats - I commute everyday from Mon-Fri to and from work. I remembered standing with 2 other heavily pregnant women and not one person offered their seats to us. I cannot blame that all chinese people are like this - english people are alike too.
The saddest thing is that I've noticed quite a lot of seated passengers quickly close their eyes as soon as I look at them when I was pregnant.
Agree with nicolejoy on the heavy doors too. Pushing a stroller is quite difficult. I remembered people passing through the doors when I was carry my baby and opening the door myself. Some of them even bumped into me when slipping through and never apologize. Real cheek of them - shouldn't they have let me pass through first - seems HK people are all in a rush!
- 09-03-2008, 09:14 PM #26Registered User
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I've been in HK a while now and experienced all the negatives that are mentioned in the previous posts - rarely offered a seat when pregnant, able-bodied people rushing past into lifts leaving me standing on the platform with the stroller, people oblivious that I'm following behind with a stroller through heavy doors and closing the door on my face (or the stroller, actually), etc. However, for a bit of balance fellow passengers really looked after me when I fainted in the middle of a packed peak hour train when about 8 weeks pregnant and suffering nasty morning sickness. They cleared a space for me, gave me a seat and used the emergency call button in the train to call ahead to the next station, where a station attendant met me, helped me to a seat and gave me a glass of water. I was very pleasantly surprised.
- 09-03-2008, 10:38 PM #27Registered User
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mtr ok with me
I read the original thread on the other forum, and I was surprised. I ride the mtr often with my 5-month son and am frequently offered a seat. I don't mind that people are a little pushy--I don't think anyone has been really rude, and I just get a little pushy myself. I appreciate that the mtr is so clean and so safe!
- 09-05-2008, 06:15 AM #28Registered User
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It is pretty sad they offer you only a seat when you ask for it!!! (that is my experience). Travelling with 2 small kids is not easy and people are running into to get a seat, even if my little one falls down! Sorry, for me : I hate it and I'm always fighting not to lose my patience and scream to these VERY rude people! I'm not used to this kind behavior in my homecountry
- 09-05-2008, 06:19 AM #29Registered User
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Oh and an other thing: people never hold doors. They just don't look. In my appartment one kids fingers was between the doors! It's a small thing to look behind you if there is someone, right? Especialy small kids!
Living in HK for almost 2 years now and every day I'm shocked how people are so rude and selfish!