[kiwidrew]

Hong Kong has thousands of minibuses, which are -- surprisingly -- more expensive than the bus or subway, but can often be twice as fast. (In part because they are notorious for driving dangerously.) The drivers and vehicles are actually licensed these days, but in almost all aspects they still operate in a very "informal" way; there's no route maps, for instance.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_light_bus

[vijucat]

"Twelve dollars, twelve minutes" (to Mong Kok from Kennedy Town), as a local said to me about the red minibus :-)

12 HKD is 1.5 USD. The route is this on Google Maps, which notes that the distance of approximately 8 km should take "13 min without traffic". So 12 minutes is basically dangerous driving!

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Kennedy+Town,+Hong+Kong/Mong...

[astrec]

$10/22 minutes Causeway Bay --> Stanley. Hang on to your hat!

[vijucat]

That's scary, for sure!