“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 […]
JOBS PLAN REVIVES HARBOUR VISION
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 […]
HyD PERSISTENTLY SHUNS GREEN RULES
Highway builders who buried protected trees under tonnes of rubble – in breach of their permit to build – ignored hundreds of demands from environmental auditors to mend their ways, with auditors […]
OP-ED: DAYLIGHTING CROWDS FOR PUBLIC HEALTH
Yesterday we met some friends for some fresh air around the Peak. To reach Mount Austin Playground, we needed to squeeze through crowds of hundreds of masked people sharing a sidewalk barely […]
“BRIDGES TO NOWHERE” SPARK ROAD PLANNING SHAKE-UP
Half-completed roads, flyover stubs and “bridges to nowhere”, some abandoned back in the 1980s, show the need for a complete overhaul of government traffic planning mechanisms and transparency, the Ombudsman recommended in […]
ROTTEN SLEEPERS CAUSED RUSH HOUR SMASH
Faulty old sleepers split under pressure causing rails to spreadeagle and throw a crowded commuter train off its tracks during rush hour, injuring eight people, according to the government investigation into last […]
TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT LAPSES INTO LENIENCY, CARNAGE
Motorists enjoyed one of the most lenient traffic regimes for 15 years in 2019, as police shifted resources into battling protests and riots and away from traffic enforcement. New figures from the […]
