Following our story on reviving ferries as a backbone for Hong Kong transport last week, we decided to field test some of the connections between the Central Ferry Piers and Wan Chai […]
PLUGGING BIKES INTO THE FERRY NETWORK: A WAY TO GO
FORGET “RAIL BACKBONE” AND INTEGRATE FERRIES, POLICY UNIT WILL SAY
Millions of people could use ferries to commute, given the growth in jobs along Hong Kong’s coastline, but the government must fully integrate ferries into public transport and go beyond its “railway […]
REINVENTING “FLYING CARS OF DEATH” INTO A PREMIUM ON-DEMAND BUS SERVICE
AN Bus founder Franki Li sees a bright future for the Red Minibus industry as an on-demand bus service Red Minibuses – known locally as Mong Ming Fei Te, literally “Flying Cars […]
GOVT REJECTS “SOUTH POLE” ISLAND FERRY PLEA
For most of the 200 people living on “the South Pole of Hong Kong”, as the Hong Kong Tourism Board calls the remote Po Toi Islands, the infrequent public hour-long public kaito […]
DCs CALL FOUL ON “RAIL MONOPOLY” IN NW NEW TERRITORIES
MTR has “monopolised” transport in North West New Territories, leaving residents with little mobility choice, according to a Tuen Mun District Councillor and Convenor of a new Working Group to study transport […]
LOCAL BUS FIRM BUILDS MASK FACTORY
Bus company KMB is producing its own surgical masks in a Tuen Mun cleanroom factory that can turn out millions of surgical masks a year and provide at least one or two […]
EV EXPERT SLAMS GOVT “GREEN EMPLOYMENT” PLAN
A leading electric vehicle (EV) specialist has hit out against the government’s “Green Employment Scheme” which will see a team of 30 hired to push a new HK$2 billion EV subsidy to […]
FATAL WORK ACCIDENT ON MTR
A contractor for MTR died in a work accident at Hong Kong Station in the early hours of this morning (13 May). “At about 2.00am this morning, a MTR contractor worker was […]
“WATER TAXI” IS NO TAXI, SAYS ZIMMERMAN
Hong Kong’s new water taxi service sullies the name of water taxis and should be properly labelled a “tourist boat”, says District Councillor and CEO of Designing Hong Kong Paul Zimmerman, as […]
CKS ACQUIRES 60% OF NWFF AHEAD OF ISLAND FERRY SHAKE-UP
Chu Kong Shipping Enterprises (Group), the state-owned firm whose subsidiary won Hong Kong’s first water taxi tender last month, will acquire 60% of local ferry firm New World First Ferry (NWFF) from […]
