有关港珠澳大桥，你有什么新的发现吗？ [美国媒体]

What have you noticed about the Zhuhai-Macao-Hong Kong bridge which other people have not mentioned?

有关港珠澳大桥，你有什么新的发现吗？



Joseph Wang, lives in Hong Kong
Well. Lots of people are wondering about Xi’s bizarre speech and what it means. Or rather the lack of a speech. Xi was late to the ceremony and declared the bridge open.
Weird…..
The big thing is that it saves time by reducing transfer. The time it takes to cross the bridge isn’t that much less than by ferry. The difference is that now you have to take a bus to Shueng Wan, take a ferry to Macau, then switch again to a bus.
With the bridge, you can go from city center to city center. I think the biggest users of the bridge will be Macau casinos running shuttle buses to Hong Kong, or Disney running shuttles to Macau. The fact that you can now do a “package” transport system where someone buys one ticket to go across is possible where it wasn’t before.

很多人都在关注开通仪式上的一些细节，真是有点奇怪。
这座桥的关键意义在于通过减少转乘从而节省了时间。开车经过这座桥的时间和乘渡轮过海所花的时间并没有差多少。区别在于之前你必须在巴士和渡轮之间不断换乘。而大桥建成后，你可以直接从城市中心开到城市中心。我认为这座大桥的最大用户将是澳门到香港的班车，或者迪士尼到澳门的班车。



It also really develops Zhuhai. Zhuhai is something of a backwater, but making a direct connection between Zhuhai and HK will change a lot of the economics of the area.

它也会有助于珠海的发展。珠海有点停滞不前，但是和香港直接连接可以给那里的经济发展带来很多的变化。

B Chui, studied Master of Business Administration Degrees at The Chinese University of Hong Kong
The bridge, together with the high speed train had connected Hong Kong to the rest of China. Now, travel to China is not limited by plane or transfer train from Lowo. Hong Kong had became an assessable city in China’s railway and highway map.
The infrastructure had revealed the strategic development plan of south China region. The areas connected all can compliment each others on resources they need. Hong Kong will become the regional hub of south China with zhuhai and zhongshan as hinderland. In order to do so, Hong Kong need more land and more people, that’s why the CEO of HK proposed to reclaim land at east Lantau area for CBD3. In the future, Hong Kong will need to house at least 10mil population.
There are a lot of negative comments against these mega infrastucture plans, however, if you are familiar with Hong Kong, you will notice that only the opponent’s view got chances to be published by the media, the silent majority never have a chance to voice out their support.

这座桥加上高铁连接了香港和中国大陆。现在去中国大陆旅游方便多了，香港连接进了中国的铁路和公路版图。
这座桥表明了中国南方地区的战略发展计划。连接起来的区域可以在资源上互补。香港将成为中国南方的区域中心，珠海和中山作为腹地。因此香港需要更多土地和人口，所以香港才提议要在大屿山填海造陆。未来，香港将会有1000万人口。有很多人对这样巨大的基建项目持有负面看法，然而，如果你熟悉香港的话，会发现只有反对者的观点才会被媒体发布，沉默的大多数从来没有机会发出自己的支持声音。



​So going to Macau and Zhuhai will be much quicker especially on days when weather is bad for ferries. This might actually promote the use of Zhuhai airport. I do not have the data of the traveling time from Hong Kong airport to Zhuhai airport. I think it would be around 1.5 hours. With the saturation of the Hong Kong airport, people might like to use Zhuhai to take long haul flights if the fares are attractive, as Zhuhai airport is very under utilized at the moment. Most probably in future there will be Hong Kong people living in Hong Kong and working in Macau and Zhuhai. Lantau will be quickly developed into a more populated area, which a lot of environmentalists will be against again.

预期是天气不好不适合渡轮开动的时候开车去澳门和珠海就方便多了。这可能还能提升珠海机场的使用。我不知道从香港机场去珠海机场要多久。应该是一个半小时。香港机场已经饱和，如果票价合理，人们可能愿意去珠海机场乘坐长途航班，因为珠海机场目前而言被使用的程度太低了。未来很有可能人们会居住在香港，然后去澳门和珠海上班。大屿山很快将被开发成人口更多的区域，很多环保人士又要抗议了。