The overhead board at Long Ping Station shows HK$11.70 to Tsim Sha Tsui. The Transport and Logistics Bureau confirmed Friday it is scrapping the HK$2 journey cap proposal, the measure that would have held any single public-transport fare at two dollars. A worker in Tin Shui Wai making that journey five days a week pays HK$11.70 one way. Across a working year, that comes to HK$3,042 in one-direction fares. The cap would have made it HK$520.

The Bureau named no replacement scheme. In Tin Shui Wai, two adults commuting the same route five days a week between them pay HK$506 in one-direction rail fares each month. The Financial Secretary's 2025-26 budget projected an HK$11 billion surplus; the Bureau stated the cost to MTR Corporation and bus operators made the cap unworkable. No alternative support framework was given a timeline or a Legislative Council slot. The board at Long Ping Station shows HK$11.70.