Lily Chan at the Tsuen Wan minibus terminal has been taking the 82K for eleven years. Monday morning, same stop, same time. She heard the sirens before she got there. A green minibus had mounted the pavement on Castle Peak Road and killed a pedestrian, and by the time RTHK had the story up, the Transport Department was already talking about "enhanced safety measures," which is government for "we will look into it after the press goes home."

Minibuses have been doing this for years. The drivers are running fourteen-hour shifts on routes the MTR doesn't bother with, serving estates in Tsuen Wan and Kwai Tsing that the planners forgot. The pay is flat, the hours are not, and nobody at the Transport Department's Road Safety division has had anything useful to say about driver fatigue standards since the last review in 2022. The pedestrian is dead. The enhanced measures are coming. That is the sequence.