Aviation experts have warned of “intolerable” aircraft noise at a new Community Isolation Facility built directly under the path of departing jets at Chek Lap Kok. The noise issue came to light […]
30 “TAXI AMBULANCE” DRIVERS CATCH COVID
UPDATE 16 March: As at 14 March, Transport Department says 57 drivers of 450 taking part in the scheme have been infected. The government says it is expanding the scheme to 950 […]
GOVT STALLS ENVIRONMENTAL QUESTIONS AS CONCRETE CASCADES ACROSS LOK MA CHAU WETLANDS
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 […]
MAN KILLED CROSSING ROAD AT KORNHILL TRAM STOP
Police yesterday arrested a 24-year-old van driver after a fatal lunchtime crash outside a Tai Koo tram stop killed a 66-year-old pedestrian. Victim Mr Cho was crossing the road next to the […]
GOVT SILENT ON TRANSPORT LOCKDOWN WHILE APPROVING MASS AXING OF BUS ROUTES
Transport Department (TD) has refused to answer questions on a rumoured transport lockdown while at the same time approving a massive bus service cut from the five franchised bus firms. TD says […]
RAIL FREIGHT RETURNS TO HONG KONG WITH DAILY 50-TONNE PANDEMIC WAGON
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. […]
ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS CRUSHED UNDER GOVT’S “WARTIME” FOOTING
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 […]
58 PEOPLE SUMMONSED FOR ALLEGED BICYCLE OFFENCES UNDER “GOLDENSUN”
Police were out in force ticketing bicycle users in New Territories North last weekend, with the long-standing Operation Goldensun resuming after an apparent two-month break to summons 58 people for alleged offences […]
CRUISE SHIP ISOLATION CLINIC IDEA GROUNDED AS GLOBAL CRUISE BUSINESS PICKS UP
The idea to use cruise ships as floating isolation hospitals is not feasible in Hong Kong, according to the boss of Hong Kong’s Kai Tak Cruise Terminal, who said there will be […]
NEW VIDEO TACTIC CATCHES DRIVERS ABUSING ZEBRA CROSSINGS
Police in Kowloon West have used video cameras to catch drivers failing to yield to pedestrians at a zebra crossing. The new approach saw 24 drivers ticketed for “not letting pedestrians on […]