For visitors staying for a week or more it is worth getting an Octopus Card , an electronic ticket from which the cost of the journey is automatically deducted when it is placed on a sensor. Any other credit remaining is also refunded when the card is handed in. At present, the card may be used on MTR services, as well as on the Kowloon-Canton Railway, major bus routes and some ferries. Plans are underway to extend its use to other routes and means of transport as Hong Kong's transport system becomes more and more integrated. Traffic drives on the left.
Routes run throughout the territory, with cross-harbour routes via the tunnel.
These, however, are often very crowded. Exact change is required. Air-conditioned coaches operate along certain Hong Kong and Kowloon routes. Maxicabs, however, operate on fixed routes without fixed stops. These can pick up passengers and stop on request except at regular bus stops and other restricted areas.