Night-shift drivers had a lucky escape when a car came bolting through Tate’s Cairn Tunnel the wrong way early Saturday morning. Taxi dashcam footage shows the car ricocheting along the tunnel walls […]
DRIVER CANNONBALLS THE WRONG WAY THROUGH TATE’S CAIRN TUNNEL
HYD STEPS UP, PROPOSES 90-STRONG OFFICE FOR NEGLECTED PEDESTRIAN PROJECTS
Highways Department (HyD) has proposed setting up a new “walkability office” with four directors and 89 officers to reinvigorate over 500 pedestrian infrastructure projects pushed to the bottom of the pile by […]
HOUSING AUTHORITY FREEZES CAR PARK FEES FOR SECOND YEAR RUNNING
Citing a sluggish market, the Housing Authority (HA) will freeze its car park fees for the second year running, pinning prices for some 31,600 spaces at January 2019 levels until 31 December […]
LAMBO DRIVER PUNCHES CABBIE, 81, IN THE FACE AFTER SMASHING INTO HIS TAXI
A taxi driver suffered mouth, eye and facial injuries after being punched by a young Lamborghini driver who had driven into the back of the elderly driver’s cab. According to police reports, […]
POLICE RACING CRACKDOWN: 1 IN 5 DRIVERS TESTED DRUNK, A THIRD OF SPEEDERS LET OFF
One in five drivers failed a breath test during a police sting operation against illegal street racing and drink driving this month, with 66 drivers out of 351 testing over the legal […]
“ANTI-MAINLAND” BOTS FLOOD CLIMATE CONSULTATION
Bots and messages coordinated through protest forum LIHKG swamped Hong Kong’s landmark climate consultation with calls to axe low-carbon Chinese electricity โ and while one bot attack was thwarted by the Council […]
OTTO POON COLLEAGUE IS NEW URA DIRECTOR: PRO-GOV LAWMAKERS ALSO APPOINTED
A director at Otto Poon’s beleaguered engineering firm Analogue Holdings and two pro-Beijing lawmakers have taken three non-executive director roles at the Urban Renewal Authority (URA), the government confirmed today. Analogue Holdings […]
DRIVER ARRESTED AFTER TAXI PLOUGHS INTO PEDESTRIAN ON QUEENSWAY, KILLING HER
Police arrested a taxi driver for dangerous driving causing death after his taxi struck and killed a woman on Queensway yesterday evening. The fatal crash happened at 8.29pm, as Ms Ng, 76, […]
CYCLING SHOWDOWN LOOMS AS TRANSPORT DEPT DIGS IN AGAINST GOVT’S CLIMATE VISION
Transport Departmentโs long-held position that cycling along Nathan Road โ or anywhere in Hong Kongโs urban areas โ is โnot recommendedโ clashes with the governmentโs latest climate change vision Battle lines have […]
SCIENTISTS EXPOSE INJUSTICES IN DECARBONISING, WARN OF “CARBON-LITERATE ELITE”
The rapid shift to “low-carbon” societies may worsen social inequalities and exclusions, with electric vehicles (EVs) widening class gaps and leading to more driving, according to research studying the fairness of low-carbon […]
