oneThe world-class project Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge has become a tourist attraction to collect tickets, which looks quite magical. 
According to CCTV News, the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge tourism trial operation will be opened on December 15.
As a super project connecting Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao and a national patriotic education base, Hong Kong, Macao and mainland residents can depart from the Zhuhai Highway Port of the HZMB and join a group tour of the HZMB. It is understood that tourists need to make an appointment to buy tickets, the ticket price is 298 yuan, and the ticket price is 198 yuan during the preferential period. The whole tour time of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge tour is about 140 minutes. The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge started construction in 2009 and was officially opened to traffic in 2018, with a total length of about 55 kilometers, including a series of bridges, artificial islands and undersea tunnels, with a total investment of 126.9 billion yuan, known as one of the seven wonders of the world. However, the bridge, which is a source of great pride for the country, fell into a loss from the first day of its opening because there was too little traffic. 
According to the data of the Central Radio Network, the average traffic volume of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge in the first year of opening was 4,109 vehicles.
According to the data released by the Central Broadcasting Network, in the first year of the opening of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, the total traffic was 1.5 million, with an average of 4,109 vehicles per day, and the toll fee for each vehicle was 150 yuan, with a daily income of more than 600,000 yuan, and more than 200 million yuan a year. According to the latest statistics of Zhuhai Customs this year, on August 20, the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge Zhuhai Highway Port exceeded 1 in a single day10,000 vehicles, setting a new record for a single day at the port. According to the calculation of 150 yuan toll for a car, it maintains the current peak level, and the daily income is 1.5 million yuan. The recovery of construction costs alone will cost 2318 years. And the design life of this bridge is 120 years. II. II. IIThere is no harm without contrast. The Humen Bridge was built by Hu Yingxiang with an investment of 3 billion yuan, and was opened to traffic in 1997, and the average daily traffic volume reached 1 in the year of opening840,000 trips. 
At present, the average daily traffic volume reaches 150,000 vehicles, which is more than 10 times that of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge. The one-way ticket price is 40 yuan, and the daily turnover can be as high as 6 million yuanA young man easily exceeds 1 billion yuan, which is an ultra-fat cash cow. Because it was so deserted, someone came up with the idea of turning the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge into a paid attraction. China has a population of 1.4 billion, and if each person goes to see the bridge once, it costs 298 yuan per person, and the ticket income will reach 400 billion. But this is not possible. I don't know how many people are willing to spend 300 yuan to go out of their way to see a bridge. Perhaps with this in mind, the planners put up a sign of "National Patriotic Education Base" for it, presumably mainly because they wanted primary and secondary schools in various localities to organize students to hold patriotic education on the spot. This could bring some popularity to the bridge, but the effect is still limited – with the exception of the Pearl River Delta, it is unlikely that schools from other places will organise students to travel long distances to check in. In addition to the license issue, an important reason for the lack of popularity of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge is that Zhuhai's economy is too small to pull the behemoth of the bridge. Zhuhai and Shenzhen are both one of the four major special economic zones in China, but today, the volume of the two places is not at the same order of magnitude. In the first three quarters of 2023, Shenzhen's GDP reached 24,4682.5 billion yuan, 3004 in Zhuhai9 billion, the latter is almost one-tenth of the former;Shenzhen has a population of more than 20 million, while Zhuhai has just over 2 millionThe number of cars in Shenzhen is more than 4 million, while in Zhuhai there are only hundreds of thousands. Between Zhuhai and Shenzhen, there are already several steps. 
ThreeTherefore, in my opinion, a feasible way for the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge to change the current deserted situation is to make it a double Y again and connect with Shenzhen. In fact, initially, the construction plan of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge was the double Y route. That is, Hong Kong is connected to Shenzhen, Macao is connected to Zhuhai, and then two intersections are built in the middle to connect the four cities of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Macao and Zhuhai. But for some reason, under the multi-party game, in the end, the double Y became the single Y, and Shenzhen was kicked out. There is no way, Shenzhen has to pay 50 billion yuan to build the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Passage, which will be completed and opened to traffic in 2024. By then, the commuting time in Shenzhen and Zhongshan will also be reduced from 2 hours to 30 minutes. 
At this time, in September this year, sharp-eyed netizens found that a document called "Shenzhen Municipal Transportation Bureau issued a procurement tender for the feasibility study of the passage from Shenzhen to Zhuhai and Macao via the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge" was released, and its core information was that the "double Y" project of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge has been put on the agenda, and the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge may lead to Shenzhen. I don't know if this information is true or not, but obviously, this is good for Shenzhen and the west bank of the Pearl River. In particular, when the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge connects to Shenzhen, a metropolis of 20 million people, with nearly 4 million car ownership, plus 3 million vehicles in neighboring Dongguan, if the license plate restrictions are lifted, the daily traffic of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge will undoubtedly skyrocket. As for the competition between the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Corridor and the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, such a large Greater Bay Area and such a dense urban agglomeration can accommodate two super bridges. By then, the magical Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge tour should be canceled.