The Mid-Levels Escalator cuts up the hillside for 800m from the footbridge across Queen’s Road by the corner of Jubilee Street, along Cochrane Street and across Hollywood, Caine and Robinson roads, ending at Conduit Road. It is capable of carrying thirty thousand people a day on a one-way system, which changes direction during the day: uphill from 10.20am to midnight, downhill from 6am to 10am (use accompanying staircases to go against the flow).

All told, it’s a twenty-minute ride from bottom to top, or 45 minutes if you have to walk.