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 […]
SCOOTER PANIC ALL IN THE MIND, FINDS 5-CITY STUDY
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 […]
DRIVER DIES IN ROUNDABOUT CRASH
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 […]
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 […]
POLICE FURTHER DELAY DAMNING TRAFFIC STATS
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 […]
ROCK THROWN FROM BRIDGE PUTS TAXI PASSENGER IN HOSPITAL
A rock thrown from a bridge onto southbound Fanling Highway caused a potentially deadly smash in the early hours of February 29, according to police, with a taxi passenger taken to hospital […]
E-SCOOTER SHORT CIRCUIT KILLS YOUNG LAD
A short circuit in an electric scooter may have started a deadly apartment fire which killed an 7-year-old boy on Friday night, according to police. Firefighters battled the fire at Oriole House, […]
