A heavy construction vehicle heading to the new ESF Borrett Road site killed a motorbike rider on Borrett Road yesterday morning (17 September) when the two vehicles reportedly collided. According to police, […]
ESF SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION TRUCK KILLS RUSH HOUR RIDER
TRANSIT JAM CONFERENCE SET TO CHALLENGE HONG KONG’S CAR CULTURE
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 […]
WHAT DO HUMANS KNOW ABOUT E-BIKES? LET’S FIND OUT!
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 […]
WATER BOWSER T-BONES CROWDED DOUBLE-DECKER INJURING 24
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 […]
SIGNALLING BUG DELAYS MTR’S SHA TIN–CENTRAL EXTENSION MILESTONE
MTR has delayed the launch of its new signalling system planned for rollout today, after finding a bug that could send trains off their planned routes and to unintended destinations. The new […]
FORMER BUS EXEC SLAMS “WORK TO RULE” BUS STRIKE
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 […]
NO CONTEST FOR NEW ISLANDS FERRY LICENCES, 4.7% FARE HIKE LOOMS
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 […]
UBER FACEMASK LIE STRANDS PREGNANT WOMAN
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 IN NORTH AMERICA FAVOURS YOUNG RICH WHITE GUYS
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 […]
ADB DISCUSSES “NEW NORMAL” IN ASIAN URBAN TRANSPORT
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 […]
