Citing laws and judgements as diverse as Hong Kong’s 1883 transport law and a 2015 case between Uber and Transport for London, the Court of Final Appeal has thrown out an appeal […]
1883 LAW INVOKED AS TOP COURT QUASHES UBER APPEAL
CREATE A “DEPT OF CULTURE” TO MANAGE STREET PERFORMANCE: CIVIC EXCHANGE
Civic Exchange has proposed a new Department of Culture as one possible solution to street performance and place-making issues in Hong Kong, in a new report released today over a Zoom video […]
WATER BOWSER T-BONES CROWDED DOUBLE-DECKER INJURING 24
A street-cleaning water bowser rammed into the side of a bus in Sham Shui Po this afternoon in a freak crash that injured 23 passengers, aged 5 to 85, and the passenger […]
FORMER BUS EXEC SLAMS “WORK TO RULE” BUS STRIKE
Bus drivers should always “work to rule” says consultant and former bus company executive Alok Jain in response to a online call for a work-to-rule protest at a bus driver’s arrest last […]
UBER FACEMASK LIE STRANDS PREGNANT WOMAN
An Uber driver falsely claimed a pregnant woman wasn’t wearing a face mask as justification for abruptly cancelling a booked trip in the early hours of this morning (5 September). Uber sent […]
RIDER KILLED IN SHA TIN SCOOTER SMASH
A pool of blood and a frenzied pile of surgical gloves, gauze and paramedic swabs were the only clues to a desperate fight for life on a Sha Tin residential street early […]
TWO MORE PEDESTRIANS KILLED BY HEAVY VEHICLES IN LAST 36 HOURS
Large vehicles have claimed two more pedestrian victims in the last 36 hours: a private roadworks vehicle in Tsing Yi yesterday afternoon knocked down and killed a lady it had just dropped […]
POLICE IDLE AS VAN PLOUGHS INTO PEDESTRIAN CROSSING
Two police officers stood by as a luxury black Mercedes van ploughed through a red light and into a busy Central pedestrian crossing yesterday, failing to take any action as the driver […]
LAMMA FERRY PIER CONSCRIPTED AS ONE OF FOUR NEW COVID-19 TEST CENTRES
A Covid-19 test centre opens above the Lamma ferry pier in Central this morning (11 August) as the government expands its free virus-testing service for taxi and minibus drivers to include MTR, […]
UBER “NEGLIGENT” ON PERMITS, INSURANCE, SAYS LAWMAKER
Uber is operating without due diligence on hire car licences and lacks proper insurance, according to a scathing attack by transport sector lawmaker Frankie Yick Chi-ming, who says the firm’s recent “ridesharing” […]
