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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
Real-time arrival information for green minibuses could be available as soon as October, according to Transport Department engineers, who say a 90-month contract to run the system is all but ready to […]
A student admissions office in HKU has been turned into 15 car parking spaces after government officials branded the offices “unauthorised building works” and ordered them demolished. HKU says it received an […]
Uber is operating without due diligence on hire car licences and lacks proper insurance, according to a scathing attack by transport sector lawmaker Frankie Yick Chi-ming, who says the firm’s recent “ridesharing” […]
Uber’s two-month “Regulate Uber” publicity blitz and its dangled carrot of a regional HQ relocation may have failed to entice the Hong Kong government into regulatory talks but its general manager Estyn […]
A year-long fight to formalise an impromptu Causeway Bay pedestrian crossing has ended abruptly after Highways Department (HyD) sealed the passageway with railings. The mass clearance of railings by the government and […]
Editor’s note: for this interview, which we conducted in good faith, we had originally believed we were talking with Joshua Wong. In January 2023 we discovered that Wong had asked Justin Yim, […]
