Hong Kong's new "water taxi" is attracting some derision for its once-weekly fixed route - but how did we end up with this strange service after the great promise of the water taxi concept? Mobility expert https://experts.griffith.edu.au/7554-abraham-leung (Dr Abraham Leung), a post-doc researcher with Griffith University in Brisbane, grew up in Hong Kong and has a lot of insight into how the city could develop a ferry service to rival mass transit or bus routes. 01:07 | Interview start 01:39 | Water taxi 02:09 | Linear vs point model 03:30 | Ferry vs bus 05:15 | Subsidy models 08:23 | Boosting ferry mode 12:12 | Developing linear modes 15:51 | Multimodal ferry connection 20:02 | Environment 20:55 | Hybrid 23:42 | Harbour development 24:05 | Ferries and covid 24:30 | Mobility as a service 26:49 | Water taxi woes p[t 2 27:53 | Pier development