He can't survive without the subway system, but after he gets off the subway, he has two choices--to risk his life crossing the street with no pedestrian crossing, or to spend more than ten minutes battling his way through a shopping-mall-cum-overpass in the combined commercial and residential development with which the station is "integrated."
住在東涌的王先生舉例，他每天的生活離不開地鐵，而下了地鐵有兩個選擇──冒著生命危險穿越沒有斑馬線的馬路；或是忍受捷運站區和住宅區的複合式開發，花上十幾分鐘拐彎繞道，穿過由地鐵公司主導的商場天橋。