{"id":3852,"date":"2024-12-18T13:58:03","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T05:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southlantaulife.com\/now\/?p=3852"},"modified":"2025-03-16T17:35:06","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T09:35:06","slug":"2024-12-18-new-lantao-bus-increased-bus-fares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southlantaulife.com\/now\/2024-12-18-new-lantao-bus-increased-bus-fares\/","title":{"rendered":"Increased bus fares from 5 Jan 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Lantao Bus was approved for a 6.5 percent starting 5 January 2025 following a <a href=\"https:\/\/southlantaulife.com\/now\/2023-05-31-bus-fares-to-increase\/\">7 percent increase<\/a> that took effect on 18 June 2023.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/southlantaulife.com\/now\/new-lantao-bus-routes-and-fares\/\">Click here<\/a> for the latest routes, schedules, fares and payment options.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Fare increase applications of NLB approved<\/h3>\n<p>(17 December 2024) The Government announced that a 6.5% bus fare increase application from New Lantao Bus Company (1973) Limited (&#8220;NLB&#8221;) is approved.<\/p>\n<p>For most passengers, the increase is between 10 cents and 50 cents.<\/p>\n<p>The company cited labour costs and a competitive market for talent while pursuing operational efficiency as the company undertakes quality and safety investments including a fleet renewal program.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nlb.com.hk\/news\/en\/546\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Lantao Bus Company<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>In the news<\/h3>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"YpcLfYf7Ao\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/hongkongfp.com\/2024\/12\/18\/hong-kong-bus-fares-to-rise-by-up-to-7-5-next-year\/\">Hong Kong bus fares to rise by up to 7.5% next year<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Hong Kong bus fares to rise by up to 7.5% next year&#8221; &#8212; Hong Kong Free Press HKFP\" src=\"https:\/\/hongkongfp.com\/2024\/12\/18\/hong-kong-bus-fares-to-rise-by-up-to-7-5-next-year\/embed\/#?secret=xLUOyhPZKS#?secret=YpcLfYf7Ao\" data-secret=\"YpcLfYf7Ao\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news.gov.hk\/eng\/2024\/12\/20241217\/20241217_155909_039.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bus fare hikes decided<\/a> (HK Gov | 17 Dec 2024)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestandard.com.hk\/section-news\/section\/11\/269150\/Higher-bus-fares-vex-public\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Higher bus fares vex public<\/a> (The Standard | Ayra Wang 6 Jan 2025)<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/southlantaulife.com\/now\/new-lantao-bus-routes-and-fares\/\">Click here<\/a> for the latest routes, schedules, fares and payment options.<\/p>\n<p>Visit the website: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nlb.com.hk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nlb.com.hk<\/a> for the latest schedules and fares or download the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Lantao_Bus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Lantau Bus<\/a> app (available on Google and Apple) and click Latest News for more information.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/southlantaulife.com\/annual\/2024\/South-Lantau-Life-reference-nlb-2024-12-18-fare-increase-post.png\" alt=\"New Lantao Bus fares to rise by 6.5% beginning next month\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>6.5 percent fare increase approved for New Lantao Bus Company<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3891,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.southlantaulife.com\/annual\/2024\/South-Lantau-Life-reference-nlb-2024-12-18-fare-increase-cover.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[212,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new","category-transport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southlantaulife.com\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southlantaulife.com\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southlantaulife.com\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southlantaulife.com\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southlantaulife.com\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3852"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/southlantaulife.com\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3897,"href":"https:\/\/southlantaulife.com\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3852\/revisions\/3897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southlantaulife.com\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southlantaulife.com\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southlantaulife.com\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southlantaulife.com\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}