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E-BIKE RIDER ARRESTED FOR OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE AFTER TRYING TO CONCEAL BATTERY PACK

By James Ockenden on February 2, 2023 • ( Leave a comment )

CEMENT TRUCK DRIVER WANTED AFTER FATAL HIT-AND-RUN

By James Ockenden on February 1, 2023 • ( Leave a comment )

3 DEAD, 90 INJURED IN DEADLIEST LUNAR NEW YEAR ON THE ROADS SINCE 2006

By James Ockenden on January 22, 2023 • ( Leave a comment )

CHINA CONCRETE AND FORMER JUSTICE SEC FAIL HIGH COURT BID AGAINST GOVT SHUTDOWN ORDER: YET BANDIT PLANT STILL RUNNING

By James Ockenden on January 21, 2023 • ( Leave a comment )

TRIAD WHO ATTACKED BUS FOUNDER ARRESTED IN DRUG FACTORY HOME, $2M COCAINE AND CASH SEIZED

By James Ockenden on January 13, 2023 • ( Leave a comment )

A TAXING WALK NO MORE: GOVT WILL ADD GREEN MAN CROSSING OUTSIDE NEW TAX BUILDING

By James Ockenden on January 10, 2023 • ( 2 Comments )

WHAT DO HUMANS KNOW ABOUT E-BIKES? LET’S FIND OUT!

By James Ockenden on September 13, 2020 • ( 1 Comment )

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

By James Ockenden on September 12, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

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

By James Ockenden on September 12, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

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

By James Ockenden on September 10, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

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

By James Ockenden on September 8, 2020 • ( 1 Comment )

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

By James Ockenden on September 5, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

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

By James Ockenden on September 4, 2020 • ( 6 Comments )

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

By Knowledge Dialogues on September 2, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

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 […]

SECOND BIKE DEATH IN TWO DAYS AS MAN KILLED IN REPULSE BAY

By James Ockenden on September 2, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

A rider died after colliding with a private car and a truck on Repulse Bay Road late yesterday afternoon, the second motorbike death in two days. According to police, the 33 year-old […]

RIDER KILLED IN ROADWORKS SMASH

By James Ockenden on September 1, 2020 • ( 2 Comments )

A man riding a motorcycle died after ploughing into the back of a slow-moving roadworks convoy around 10 km east of the airport on Lantau last last night. Mr Yu, 43, was […]

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E-BIKE RIDER ARRESTED FOR OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE AFTER TRYING TO CONCEAL BATTERY PACK

CEMENT TRUCK DRIVER WANTED AFTER FATAL HIT-AND-RUN

3 DEAD, 90 INJURED IN DEADLIEST LUNAR NEW YEAR ON THE ROADS SINCE 2006

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  • E-BIKE RIDER ARRESTED FOR OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE AFTER TRYING TO CONCEAL BATTERY PACK February 2, 2023
  • CEMENT TRUCK DRIVER WANTED AFTER FATAL HIT-AND-RUN February 1, 2023
  • 3 DEAD, 90 INJURED IN DEADLIEST LUNAR NEW YEAR ON THE ROADS SINCE 2006 January 22, 2023
  • CHINA CONCRETE AND FORMER JUSTICE SEC FAIL HIGH COURT BID AGAINST GOVT SHUTDOWN ORDER: YET BANDIT PLANT STILL RUNNING January 21, 2023
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