Hundreds of cyclists joined Hong Kong’s annual Ride of Silence via video link on Wednesday night (20 May), with over 20 of them congregating at the traditional Tsim Sha Tsui clocktower starting […]
RIDE OF SILENCE REMEMBERS SLAIN CYCLISTS
DC REJECTS POLICE ILLEGAL PARKING EXCUSES
Police should not blame LegCo’s failure to raise parking fines “as an excuse for their incompetence in dealing with parking violation problems”, says the chairman of the Central & Western District Council […]
POLICE SHIFT TACTICS TO TACKLE ILLEGAL PARKING
With illegal parking complaints surging at the end of 2019, police are looking at new ways to tackle the scourge of scofflaw vehicles cluttering up streets, according to the head of the […]
SMASH AND RUN: DRIVER FLEES DVRC PAVEMENT CRASH
A driver abandoned this 230 hp Golf Sportsvan on the pavement after smashing through railings outside the Court of Final Appeal – police say alcohol was likely involved The car careened into […]
DOCKLESS BIKE FLEET SLASHED BY GOVT CULL
The number of dockless bikes in Hong Kong has drastically shrunk in the last 18 months, new figures show, with just a fifth of the city’s original 26,000 fleet surviving a government […]
VAN DRIVER KILLED AT INTERCHANGE
A van driver was crushed inside his medium goods vehicle and killed after he reportedly lost control and crashed into concrete barriers before overturning. The driver was travelling along Cheung Pei Shan […]
“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 […]
NEW ROAD USERS’ CODE BOOSTS AWARENESS OF CYCLISTS
GUEST OPINION BY JUSTIN YIM, OF STREET RESET Twenty years since its last revision, the Transport Department (TD) gazetted the latest Road Users’ Code on 24 April. The code is required reading […]
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 […]
WALK DVRC TO RUN OUT OF MONEY BY JULY
Walkability charity Walk DVRC will run out of money by July, says its CEO Jennifer Walker Frisinger, as core family foundation donors shift to poverty and hunger charities during the pandemic. Unless […]
