Central Mid-Levels Escalator

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Mosque Street ( 摩羅 廟街 ) - Entrance to the Central Escalator, 2011
Sidewalk next to the moving walkway

The Central Mid-Levels Escalator ( Chinese  中環至半山自動扶手電梯  /  中环至半山自动扶手电梯 , Pinyin ZHONGHUAN zhì Banshan Zidong Fúshǒu Dianti , Jyutping Zung 1 waan 4 zi 3 Bun 3 saan 1 Zi 6 dung 6 Fu 4 sow 2 Din 6 tai 1 ), called Central Escalator ( 半山 電梯  /  半山 自 电梯 , Bànshān Diàntī , Jyutping Bun 3 saan 1 Din 6 tai 1 ), is a system of 20 escalators and three moving walks on Hong Kong Island in Hong Kong . With a length of 800 meters, over which it climbs 135 meters , it is the longest roofed external escalator system in the world. It connects the districts of Central ( 中 環 區  /  中 环 区 ) and Mid-Levels ( 半山 區  /  半山 区 ) in the business center on Hong Kong Island.

background

Hong Kong Island stretches from the South China Sea (zero meters) to 552 meters high Victoria Peak .

The financial and business center of Hong Kong is located in the Central district . Here you will find mainly workplaces, as well as the Hong Kong subway stations Central Station and Hong Kong Station , which are served by four lines.

Mid-Levels, located halfway up Victoria Peak above Central, is a residential area where many local business people and expats live. In 2009 the world record for the most expensive apartment in the world was set here (more than 102,000 US dollars per square meter).

In order to reduce the volume of traffic during the rush hour and to make the difficult way up to the mid-levels easier, the "Central Escalator" was put into operation in October 1993.

Use and structure

Interruption of the Central Escalator

The "Central Escalator" can be used by all persons free of charge and without restriction during the operating hours. It only drives in one direction. From 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. the escalator goes down from the “Mid-Levels” to “Central” and from 10:30 a.m. to midnight it goes up again. Next to the escalators there is a normal walkway for people who want to go in the other direction. A full ride takes about 20 minutes if you don't use the Escalator to accelerate the ride. While the number of daily users was initially estimated at 27,000, in mid-2011 more than 55,000 people used it daily.

building-costs

Three years after the system went live, on November 6, 1996, the English-language Hong Kong newspaper The Standard published the results of an audit on the project. It stated that the project had exceeded its budgeted budget by 153%. Instead of the originally calculated cost of HK $ 97 million , construction costs totaled HK $ 245 million.

Web links

Commons : Central-Mid-Levels escalators  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ ADAC Travel Guide - Hong Kong and Macau , page 29
  2. ↑ Anke Kausch: China: the classic journey - imperial and garden cities, holy mountains and boomtowns . Dumont - Art Travel Guide. Page 391
  3. ↑ Most expensive apartment-Hong Kong flat sets world record. In: www.worldrecordsacademy.org. October 21, 2009, archived from the original on December 9, 2012 ; accessed on June 15, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Mid-Level Escalators. In: hongkong.sehenswuerdheiten-online.de. Retrieved June 15, 2019 .
  5. ↑ " Stairway to urban heaven ". In: South China Morning Post . July 11, 2011, accessed June 15, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Yonden Lhatoo: Escalator, a costly white elephant '. In: The Standard . November 6, 1996, archived from the original on May 22, 2011 ; accessed on June 15, 2019 .

Coordinates: 22 ° 17 '1.2 "  N , 114 ° 9' 17.4"  E