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1. Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 27-Mar-2022 07:45:24 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅
   I have lived in Hong Kong for a cumulative 9 years. Taxi is rather cheap here – if you are three people sharing it may even beat the bus in terms of price tag – so I'll take the taxi several times per month for different reasons, even though I generally use public transport.
   
   Once, only once, have I seen a taxi equipped with the transponder to pass through the tunnel toll gate with autopay. The other dozens of times they have stopped to pay the clerk in cash.
   
   I wonder why that is. I asked the guy with the transponder what he thought about why other drivers wouldn't do it, but we didn't manage to make my question understandable and I was just getting out, so the mystery remains so far unsolved.
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 27-Mar-2022 08:23:15 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     There are many tunnels with toll gates in Hong Kong, and some bridges. If you want to go through the mountains surrounding Kowloon to get to New Territories, if you want to go between Kowloon and Island, if you want to go to Lantau, that's six tunnels and one bridge I can think of off the bat. It's not a rare occurrence.
   • penguin42 (penguin42@mastodon.org.uk)'s status on Sunday, 27-Mar-2022 13:11:38 UTC penguin42

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     @clacke I guess the clock is running while they stop to pay the toll; so in the end it's you who are paying?

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 27-Mar-2022 13:11:38 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • penguin42
     @penguin42 No, when you drive the distance that takes you through a tunnel the distance charge is dominant, not the time charge. And it doesn't take *that* long.
     
     I just imagine myself finding it a real nuisance if I were the one driving passengers through the same gate dozens of times a day.