Any RC P1 live in TKO??

kcpapa

My daughter will study P1 in coming 2009 Sep.  After checking the school bus, that is a terrible routing from TKO to RC.  Any parent lives in Tseung Kwan O can share your thought of how to go to school?

At the beginnint, we decided to move to Ma On Shan or Shatin, but at the moment, the property market is not very good, to move would be too risky and too costly.  

We do not want to move nor to take the school bus...  that should be a very difficult problem for us.... Help!!

kcpapa

Hello 琬晴B,

I have contacted the bus company. The point is not the stop but the route.  If they start from TKO and go straight to Ma On Shan through TKO Tunnel and Kwun Tong, then that would be okay.  Surprisingly, the bus start from TKO and go to UST then back to Diamond Hill through Clear Water Bay road.  The route is too long ....  

Anyway, we will contact Kwoon-Chung further if they will have any adjustment.  

The worst case would to hire a driver....  but quite too costly....

Tks a lot

kcpapa

Yes, that should be a good idea.  May be we can try to gather more TKO parents, if any and can up to 18 students.  The bus company may consider more positively.  

From the schedule of the bus company, the pick up time from East Point City would be 7:40am.  Then going up to UST and Shun Lee Chun then New Clearwater Bay road, about 8 more stops to go before arriving RC.   If the bus can go direct from TKO through Kwun Tong and Tai Lo Shan Tunnel, I think 35 mins will be okay from the last stop in TKO.  

We might have another solution as sharing Taxi fare or hire a part time driver....

If we can gather 3 to 4 kids, then to share the taxi fare would be almost same as the bus fare.  I checked with the discount taxi driver, the regular fare would be about $150.00 (so discounted fare will be about $120-130, if we can have 3-4 kid, then a day would be about $240-260 (return) or about $80/kid/day (after discount) x 22 days = $1760.00.  Bus fare would be about HK$1300.00 ($4000 / 3months).  After deducting the holidays as Christmas or...  then the fare would be almost the same.  But we can save more time and would be more safe.

Anyway, we may have more discussion later... keep searching and if there is any more TKO parents, pls report present, we may try to gether and discuss with the bus company collectivly.

kcpapa

I will try to contact the bus company tomorrow and reconfirm the exact routing from TKO to MOS.  

I think there are more TKO students will go RC this year as we all might know that almost no Cat 2 student has been admitted by CWBS in this year.  Most of the Cat 2 students will go RC.  Then we should try to check with the class teachers of Abacus and see if we can gather at least a basis to have more power to negotiate with the bus company.  I think no parents would have any objection if the route can be getting shorter.  And so we can keep posting the situation here and if there is any objection, we should also respect other parents idea.

kcpapa

Today checked with Koon Chung who informed us that a revised routing will be announced in June and they will send a letter to all RC parents for the updated routing.  We can contact them and explain our request afterwards.

Then we may wait for a while.  But if my understand is correct, they are having 2 route to run TKO area??  I am not really understand and they do not explain it very clearly over phone.  If there is any RC parents, pls kindly explain and so we can know more, as ever there is a new routing, that would be adjusted on the bases of the old one.  Radical changes of the route is not possible.  And the pick up time from East Point City would be about 7:25am and the stop in Shun Lee is cancelled.  Anyway it takes an hour to go school and so 2 hours a day.