Just like every other big city in the world, the first task facing Hong Kongers each morning is the commute to work. Luckily, Hong Kong is a compact city and fantastically connected, primarily by the MTR subway system, but also with ferries, trams and buses. The average commute in Hong Kong is around thirty minutes, door to door, although this is rising as more people move into the New Territories.
The picture above shows one of Hong Kong's more interesting forms of transport, the mid-levels escalator. The escalator is used to slide people down to work in the mornings, from the mid levels residential district to Central, and back up again in the evenings. This is the longest outdoor escalator system in the world.
