Public transport; MTR, bus, light rail, tram, ferry
Over 100 transport professionals, urban planning experts and NGOs will meet Thursday 17 September for Transit Jam‘s inaugural conference, with the theme Rethinking “Vehicles First”. The online Zoom webinar, running from 3.00pm […]
One of the largest reviews into e-bike knowledge has just been published, and it contains some surprising results, not least that while e-bikes might be displacing some conventional cycling, they are actually […]
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 […]
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 […]
Incumbent ferry firms New World First Ferry (NWFF) and Hong Kong and Kowloon Ferry (HKKF) have both won their respective outlying island ferry routes for another five years after an uncontested “open […]
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 […]
Shared micromobility such as e-scooters and shared bikes are disproportionately used by young well-educated rich white men, while the poor, black, female, elderly and less educated are significantly under-represented in the North […]
For Heather Thompson, CEO of the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy, the pandemic disruption is a chance to invest in systems built around people. Speaking at the opening event of the […]
Real-time arrival information for green minibuses could be available as soon as October, according to Transport Department engineers, who say a 90-month contract to run the system is all but ready to […]
The success of a green-lit hillside escalator will depend on its adoption by students and school staff in the district, according to District Councillor Paul Zimmerman, speaking to RTHK after Chief Executive […]
