The advertising boss in charge of thousands of bus and bus-stop billboards has back-pedalled on a social media post in which he hinted that bus window advertising could be a thing of […]
BRAVO WALKS BACK ON BUS WINDOW WRAP COMMENTS
27-YEAR-OLD FRENCH WOMAN DIES OF SOHO RUNAWAY CAR INJURIES
A young woman has died in hospital after she was hit by a runaway car in Soho last night. Police say the French national, who was 27 years old, passed away at […]
SOHO PEDESTRIANISATION WEBSITE SCRUBBED, GOVT SILENT IN WAKE OF FATAL CRASH
The government discussed plans to pedestrianise Staunton Street in a $13m consultancy which it has since quietly deleted A $13.9 million government study pledging pedestrian zones in Central and Sham Shui Po, […]
TWO WOMEN CRITICAL AFTER RUNAWAY CAR PLOUGHS INTO SOHO CROWD, INJURING 8
Passersby frantically try to lift the car to release a trapped pedestrian, while keeping the car from plunging down the Peel Street steps Eight people were injured, two critically, after a runaway […]
ANTI-PEDESTRIAN CAMPAIGN STEPS UP AHEAD OF CHRISTMAS
The war on pedestrians has stepped up a notch in recent weeks, with “Operation Autobinder” summonsing a record 193 pedestrians in New Territories last week and 84 on Hong Kong Island yesterday. […]
GOVT DEFENDS NEW PARKING TECH, BLAMES UNDERGROUND POWER CABLES FOR CAPACITY CONSTRAINTS
The government has hit back at criticism of its new Automated Parking System (APS) car park in Tsuen Wan West, claiming underground power cables and other constraints prevented developers building more parking […]
BREAKING: CHEUNG SHA WAN KINDIE BUS CRASHES INTO TRAFFIC POLE, 10 YOUNGSTERS HURT
10 kindergarten students were hurt in a school bus crash in Lai Chi Kok this morning when a bus driver apparently drove into a traffic sign on Lai King Hill Road. According […]
25-YEAR-OLD KILLED IN CLEAR WATER BAY ROAD CRASH, HOURS AFTER RESIDENT’S PLEA FOR POLICE SPEEDING ACTION
A young driver was killed on Clear Water Bay Road in the early hours of this morning, just hours after a Clearwater Bay resident made a public plea for safety improvements on […]
HUNDREDS OF CYCLISTS TICKETED IN LATEST “GOLDENSUN” BUSTS
New Territories police ticketed 203 cyclists in a two-day operation last week, targeting “cyclists without lights” and other offences such as failing to comply with traffic signs. The campaign, which ran from […]
BRINGING UP THE RHEA: KAI TAK BORING MACHINE NAMED FOR “ETERNAL FLOW OF TIME”
The two 4,200-tonne Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) to be used to creating the Trunk Road T2 and Cha Kwo Ling Tunnel have been christened “Victoria” and “Rhea” after a public competition to […]
