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   clacke@libranet.de is my main (notclacke@fedia.social)'s status on Friday, 25-Jul-2025 15:09:42 JST clacke@libranet.de is my main

   Hong Kong's pedestrian infrastructure is very cool. It's not perfect in any way. If you don't have full mobility it can bevery cumbersome at times. But overall, better than most cities.
   
   There's lots of pedestrian tunnels and walkways. There are lifts and escalators in many places. Sometimes the lift allows you to bring a bicycle, ride across a bridge, on a paved bike lane, to the next lift.
   
   But today I learned that one particular part is even cooler than I thought.

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     clacke@libranet.de is my main (notclacke@fedia.social)'s status on Friday, 25-Jul-2025 15:09:41 JST clacke@libranet.de is my main

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     One of the fun things with living in Hong Kong, if you're a five-year-old at heart, love secret tunnels, and don't love walking outside in scorching heat with near-saturated humidity, is to learn to navigate the walkways beneath the busy district of Tsim Sha Tsui. TST station has tunnels to most parts of core TST and to the harborside promenade, and also fully connects to neighboring station TST East. Twice! There are two ways to go from one station to the other completely underground.
     
     Which other stations are connected like that?

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     受不了包 (shibao@misskey.bubbletea.dev)'s status on Friday, 25-Jul-2025 15:24:43 JST 受不了包

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     @notclacke@fedia.social taipei's metro has two shopping malls

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     clacke@libranet.de is my main (notclacke@fedia.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-Sep-2025 21:04:46 JST clacke@libranet.de is my main

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     ... up to just outside AIA, cross the sidewalk, walk the bridge to The Henderson when it's ready, walk through Admiralty ...The walkway from AIA Tower to The Henderson is now open!
     
     #HKInfra

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     clacke@libranet.de is my main (notclacke@fedia.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-Sep-2025 21:04:47 JST clacke@libranet.de is my main

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     That 20 m of sidewalk ... next to the AIA is the CCB, and they have a direct exit to the MTR in their basement.
     
     C'mon guys, just put a plank across the gap, and Sheung Wan and Admiralty can be fully connected!

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     So, you can walk all the way from Sheung Wan, over the bridge to the IFC, through HK Station, through Central, up to just outside AIA, cross the sidewalk, walk the bridge to The Henderson when it's ready, walk through Admiralty, walk the tunnel to Three Pacific Place, and then you're technically in Wan Chai, although not very close to Wan Chai Station.
     
     Shun Tak to Three Pacific Place, that's four MTR stations, 2.6 km the way the crow flies, dozens of malls, hundreds (thousands?) of employers, and the only part that exposes you to the sun and rain is 20 m of sidewalk and, for now, 5 m of stairs.
     
     I think that's pretty damn cool.

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     clacke@libranet.de is my main (notclacke@fedia.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-Sep-2025 21:04:49 JST clacke@libranet.de is my main

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     The second connection Admiralty->Central goes through the newly built The Henderson, which is just across the road from Statue Square. The Henderson is the tower that looks like a pile of classic Coca Cola bottles stacked into a tower.
     
     Now, I thought that from there all you can do is just walk across Statue Square to enter Central Station, but there is a walkway bridge being built from The Henderson to AIA Tower, it looks like it will be finished any week now. And there's an entrance to Central Station just outside AIA.
     
     Until that bridge is finished, you can take the circular stairs down to Statue Square, and you'll be exposed at the top of those stairs, but then you'll be under the stairs themselves, and then you can walk up a covered ramp to AIA Tower again.

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     clacke@libranet.de is my main (notclacke@fedia.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-Sep-2025 21:04:50 JST clacke@libranet.de is my main

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     So I went to Admiralty and Central, and I realized you have no less than two almost-connections.
     
     The first one is Admiralty->Cheung Kong then HSBC->Central; I kind of knew this one. From Lippo Centre you can cross over the highway to Cheung Kong Centre, fully covered, but then you have to cross the road to HSBC before you're in the bridge complex connecting most of core Central.

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     clacke@libranet.de is my main (notclacke@fedia.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-Sep-2025 21:04:51 JST clacke@libranet.de is my main

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     We're not talking completely underground now, Central/Hong Kong+Sheung Wan and Exhibition Centre+Wan Chai are connected by bridges, buildings etc, the point is you have a roof over your head at all times.

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     No, what's cool is that this got me thinking: How close are we to having a connection between these two clusters? Admiralty and Wan Chai are a bit disconnected and I don't see that closing soon, but Admiralty and Central are very close. But there's no way to reach the Statue Square entrance of Central without crossing the actual Statue Square from Admiralty.
     
     Or so I thought! I wasn't sure, so today I went to check it out.

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     clacke@libranet.de is my main (notclacke@fedia.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-Sep-2025 21:04:53 JST clacke@libranet.de is my main

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     The only pair I would have mentioned off the cuff is Sheung Wan and Central (and Hong Kong Station, same thing as Central really, you don't blip out of the network when you walk from one to the other). There's a walkway bridge connecting Shun Tak on top of Sheung Wan Station to IFC on top of Hong Kong Station.
     
     But the other day I realized that also Wan Chai Station and the new Exhibition Center Station are fully connected. Cool, but that's not the exciting thing yet. I would have guessed it or figured it out if someone asked, they're both in Wan Chai, which is rich with interconnected towers.

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     Marc (marc@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 16-Oct-2025 01:38:12 JST Marc

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     What is so interesting about this #HongKong #UrbanExploration continuity / contiguity / agglomeration mapping, is that, while this entire structure is composed of planned sections, and indeed connectivity is clearly an objective in the planning throughout, yet total extent I'm guessing isn't intentional. As best evidenced by the ever so small gap in the chain.

     Hong Kongers who fear slight drizzles, wet toes, and holding umbrellas will forever be in your debt!

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 16-Oct-2025 01:38:14 JST clacke

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     Walked the entire length of Shun Tak->3PP today during lunch. 4 km, 99.5% under a roof.

     @Marc pointed out that actually you should start in Western Market and get another 100 m in.

     If you know your way around Central Station, there is exactly one correct way to go where you don't have to blip in and out of the MTR system.

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     @clacke That's pretty awesome. Even NYC doesn't have such a things.
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