Brighter LED street lights don’t prevent accidents – in fact they may do more harm than good, according to a prominent statistician, who says the accepted science on street lighting is wrong. […]
BRIGHTER STREET LIGHTS CAUSE MORE ACCIDENTS
GOVT REJECTS GLOBAL COVID-19 CYCLING SURGE ON ROAD SAFETY FEARS
Carrie Lam’s administration has doubled down on its anti-cycling stance in urban areas, even as cities around the world are seeing a resurgence in cycling under coronavirus lockdowns and social distancing protocols. […]
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 […]
CYCLIST KILLED IN PEAK TRUCK COLLISION
A cyclist, described by police as a “foreigner”, was killed in a collision with a medium goods vehicle on Peak Road this morning. Police were called at 8:52am, and the 54-year old […]
CAN YOU DO A BETTER JOB THAN MTR?
Transit fans and NUMTOTS will love Mini Metro, a 2014 subway simulator going viral this week after developers offered it for free during the global Coronavirus lockdowns. The game is visually beautiful […]
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 […]
GREENING THE “BRIDGES TO NOWHERE”
Hong Kong’s abandoned “Bridges to nowhere” could be transformed into cycle projects supporting a vision of a Hong Kong-wide cycle greenway, according to a local architect and cycling advocate Benny Yip. The […]
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 […]
$1M ROBOTS TO BLEACH MTR TRAINS
MTR will deployed 20 “Vapourised Hydrogen Peroxide Robots”, at a cost of around HK$1m each, to clean its trains with atomised bleach during the coronavirus outbreak. The VHP Robot can conduct deep […]
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 […]
