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The $20 billion bridge, however, isn’t open to all traffic. All six casino licensees have a fleet of busses that transport guests around town, but those vehicles are barred from traversing the HKZM overpass.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The bridge also bans passenger busses, with the exception of 34 issued permits that were awarded via a bidding process. Each vehicle is allowed to make one roundtrip per day.<\/p>\n
The South China Morning Post <\/i>says a group of Hong Kong investors are behind One Bus, and have invested $22 million into a fleet of 19 busses, the same number of permits the group received at auction. And it appears Sands China has reached an agreement for the charter company to run its trips from its three Macau casinos.<\/p>\nDelayed Opening<\/b><\/h2>\n
The HKZM bridge was supposed to open over the summer, but ongoing inspections have kept it closed. The world’s longest sea bridge cost the lives of at least 10 workers during construction, and injured hundreds of others.<\/p>\n
Nine years in the making, the bridge will hold its grand opening ceremony on October 23, and Chinese President Xi Jinping is expected to attend in Macau. However, he isn’t going to make the trip across to Hong Kong.<\/p>\n
In April, aerial photos showed interlocking concrete blocks protecting several artificial islands built to support the bridge washing away. The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge Authority said the islands were still in place and the barrier movement was expected, and only a powerful “once in 300 years” storm would jeopardize their integrity.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nVeteran engineers not associated with the bridge told the South China Morning Post <\/i>that the authority’s explanation was “unreasonable.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A Macau bus will provide daily service from three Sands China casino resorts in the gaming enclave to Hong Kong once the forthcoming Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau (HKZM) bridge opens. One Bus, as the casino charter service company is known, will transport riders from Sands Macau, Venetian, and Parisian, the two latter integrated resorts located on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":90671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,10,18,13592],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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