Public transport; MTR, bus, light rail, tram, ferry
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
A driver has died after his car spun out of control and smashed through railings into a substation wall on Wai Yip Street, near Kwun Tong Public Pier. The 61-year-old man was […]
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 […]
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 […]
Police are yet again delaying official 2019 crime figures, until mid-April, statistics that will reveal a drastic cut in traffic enforcement for the second half of the year. Parking tickets were down […]
