The Hong Kong Productivity Council (HKPC) has been awarding itself huge project grants as manager of the government’s $1 billion Smart Traffic Fund, Transit Jam has learned. The council, entrusted as the […]
Government proposals strongly influenced by the car and e-scooter lobby are set to forbid next-generation bicycles from public roads, forcing them to use only cycle tracks and effectively banning them from urban […]
Parking tickets reached a record high in 2021, with 3.3 million of the $320 fines given out over the year – equivalent to one every 10 seconds. The annual police figures, updated […]
A battalion of concrete pumps are paving the wetlands at Lok Ma Chau Loop unfettered by Hong Kong law, while the government says it has “nothing to say” on the project from […]
Rail freight returned to Hong Kong today for the first time in over a decade, with 50 tonnes of pandemic supplies rolling into the Lo Wu Marshalling yard from Pinghu in Shenzhen. […]
Covid isolation centres being built at up to nine sites across the city will bypass environmental laws under Chief Executive Carrie Lam’s “wartime environment”, with Emergency Powers sidestepping planning applications and environmental […]
Lawmakers have discussed new ways to manage harbourfront policy and legislation, with DAB’s Edward Leung Hei proposing a new subcommittee to review waterfront policy and legislation just months after the last parliament […]
The deletion of a $13.9 million pedestrianisation contract from a government website was part of a routine “updating exercise” that began before a fatal crash in Soho and was not related to […]
The government has been “agitated” by questioning over walkability projects in the wake of the death of a young woman on the streets of Soho last weekend, and may have deleted project […]
Transport Department has scrubbed public records and dodged questions on the disappearance of a government pedestrianisation website, refusing to even acknowledge the planned schemes in answers to enquiries and even deleting details […]
