HYD STEPS UP, PROPOSES 90-STRONG OFFICE FOR NEGLECTED PEDESTRIAN PROJECTS
Highways Department (HyD) has proposed setting up a new “walkability office” with 4 directors and 89 officers to reinvigorate over 500 pedestrian infrastructure projects pushed to the bottom of the pile by […]
HOUSING AUTHORITY FREEZES CAR PARK FEES FOR SECOND YEAR RUNNING
Citing a sluggish market, the Housing Authority (HA) will freeze its car park fees for the second year running, pinning prices for some 31,600 spaces at January 2019 levels until December 31, […]
LAMBO DRIVER PUNCHES CABBIE, 81, IN THE FACE AFTER SMASHING INTO HIS TAXI
A taxi driver suffered mouth, eye and facial injuries after being punched by a young Lamborghini driver who had driven into the back of the elderly driver’s cab. According to police reports, […]
POLICE RACING CRACKDOWN: 1 IN 5 DRIVERS TESTED DRUNK, A THIRD OF SPEEDERS LET OFF
One in five drivers failed a breath test during a police sting operation against illegal street racing and drink driving this month, with 66 drivers out of 351 testing over hte legal […]
“ANTI-MAINLAND” BOTS FLOOD CLIMATE CONSULTATION
Bots and messages coordinated through protest forum LIHKG swamped Hong Kong’s landmark climate consultation with calls to axe low-carbon Chinese electricity – and while one bot attack was thwarted by the Council […]
OTTO POON COLLEAGUE IS NEW URA DIRECTOR: PRO-GOV LAWMAKERS ALSO APPOINTED
A director at Otto Poon’s beleaguered engineering firm Analogue Holdings and two pro-Beijing lawmakers have taken three non-executive director roles at the Urban Renewal Authority (URA), the government confirmed today. Analogue Holdings […]
DRIVER ARRESTED AFTER TAXI PLOUGHS INTO PEDESTRIAN ON QUEENSWAY, KILLING HER
Police arrested a taxi driver for dangerous driving causing death after his taxi struck and killed a woman on Queensway yesterday evening. The fatal crash happened at 8.29pm, as Ms Ng, 76, […]
CYCLING SHOWDOWN LOOMS AS TRANSPORT DEPT DIGS IN AGAINST GOVT’S CLIMATE VISION
Transport Department’s long-held position that cycling along Nathan Road – or anywhere in Hong Kong’s urban areas – is ‘not recommended’ clashes with the government’s latest climate change vision Battle lines have […]
SCIENTISTS EXPOSE INJUSTICES IN DECARBONISING, WARN OF “CARBON-LITERATE ELITE”
The rapid shift to “low-carbon” societies may worsen social inequalities and exclusions, with electric vehicles (EVs) widening class gaps and leading to more driving, according to research studying the fairness of low-carbon […]
HONG KONG’S SOLE ELECTRIC TRUCK “UNSUITABLE FOR PUBLIC ROADS”
The only electric truck ever trialled through the government’s New Energy Transport Fund (NETF) scheme is not used on public roads over concern of battery life and coping with hills when loaded, […]
