Electric buses must shed weight – around three quarters of their hefty battery baggage – to earn a place on Hong Kong’s roads, says a leading bus expert who calls on the […]
DITCHING HEAVY BATTERIES WILL SAVE E-BUSES, SAYS BUS EXPERT
ELDERLY WALKABILITY IGNORED BY PLANNERS, FINDS HK RESEARCHER
A new test of how well districts encourage walking finds many holes in Hong Kong’s walkability, including poor connections in districts frequented by the elderly, unnavigable new towns and a sign that […]
GOVT KNOCKS BACK DC TRUCK PARKING PLAN, OPEN TO CAR PARK IDEAS
The government has knocked back a request from district councillors to transform a Sheung Wan bus park into a truck unloading centre, claiming the plan would impede bus operations and compromise road […]
EXTRA HK$1BN RELIEF FOR AIRPORT BUSINESSES
Four hundred aviation companies will benefit from a new government HK$1 billion relief package, helping them face industry challenges resulting from the Covid-19 outbreak. The package consists of a government waiver of […]
HARBOUR SHUTTLES ARE GO: WATER TAXIS DUE IN Q4
Hong Kong’s much anticipated “water taxi” service came one step closer to reality today, with a local ferry firm winning a five-year contract to ply Victoria Harbour with the hop-on-hop-off ferries. Fortune […]
ROAD NOISE PLANS “FAVOUR RICH”
Lawmakers accused the government of favouring the rich in its proposals for the widening of Castle Peak Road, with noise barriers, they said in LegCo today, designed only to protect luxury apartment […]
JOBS PLAN REVIVES HARBOUR VISION
“Money can’t buy happiness,” as the song goes, “but it could buy me a boat”. And if Paul Zimmerman’s ambitious harbour extension plan gets the go-ahead, the neglected waterways of Aberdeen could […]
HK$1.6bn BAILOUT FOR TAXIS, VANS & SHUTTLES
Some 130,000 luxury apartment shuttles, taxis and goods vehicles will share a HK$1.4 billion Coronavirus bailout, with a one-off, no-questions-asked subsidy designed to assist the transport trade in “coping with the operating […]
POLICE SIDESTEP SMART LAMPPOST WOES WITH PRIVATE PROJECT
The attack on dozens of smart lampposts by chainsaw-wielding protestors in Kwun Tong last year killed off many of Hong Kong’s “smart city” ambitions, but a parallel police project to investigate the […]
SCOOTER PANIC ALL IN THE MIND, FINDS 5-CITY STUDY
The scourge of scooters and shared bikes blocking pavements may be mostly in the mind, finds new US research into actual access impediments. In fact, across five American cities studied, it’s overwhelmingly […]
