These people are walking toward the Mid-Levels Escalator, which is the longest outdoor covered escalator system in the world. (Or at least it used to be.) It's a series of 20 escalators that moves commuters down the steep hill in the morning and up the hill for the rest of the day. It opened in 1993 as an effort to curb traffic congestion between the densely populated Mid-Levels residential area and the Central business district. Some say that the Escalator has not been all that successful in reducing congestion. It takes 20-25 minutes to ride all the way up or down on the escalators. There are stairs alongside for the contrarians.
I showed Terry this photo of a quaint pastoral mural on the side of a building I had walked by. He recognized it right away. It's on his route walking home from work, close to the SoHo area, where the art is edgy. I guess if this mural was located in SoHo
it would be edgy.
Here's a fish stall down a narrow market alley in Wan Chai. Consumers want to buy a live fish so they'll know it's really fresh. Supposedly a local might loiter in the area and watch for a pricey fish to go belly up and then zip over to bargain for a deal on it.
When I first saw this display in a store window along the tram route I thought it was cans of vegetables, which is unusual here. Chinese people like their veggies fresh, not canned and not frozen. A few days later I walked by and saw that these are actually cans of seeds. I think the top two are a couple varieties of lettuce seeds and at the bottom are watermelon seeds. I supposed they're canned because it's often humid here so seeds wouldn't keep well in paper packages.
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