Whats wrong with the first photo? 1. A car couldnt be bothered to park unlawfully on the pavement, he chose to park in the road, totally blocking the downhill road to Hoi Ha village and Marine Park. 2. The Hoi Ha minibus was forced to drive on the wrong side of the road 3. Can you just see 3 cars parked on the left-hand side of the road? Notice there isnt a pavement there any more? There used to be one, but it was taken away to prevent vehicles parking unlawfully on the pavement. 4. Every square inch of pavement is parked on, so pedestrians are forced to walk to Hoi Ha in the middle of the road. 5. See the car in the bottom right-hand corner of the photo? He cant park on the pavement because the solution to cars parking unlawfully on the pavement was to put bollards in the middle. So cars park on the road, alongside, instead, blocking the roundabout. The bollards arent on the edge of the pavement, but right in the middle, so if you are in an electric wheelchair, forget it - theres not room for you to squeeze between the bollard and the fence, you too are forced into the middle of the road. The Government refuses to take infrastructure into consideration when planning the development of enclaves. The village car park is full. There is no room for any visitor parking. 40 new houses are envisaged. Suppose each one has 3 flats - that could be another 120 cars with nowhere to park, and each flat will be able to book permits for 5 vehicles, Where will those cars park, given that the footpath from the village all the way beyond the Hoi Ha Barbecue Site is filled with unlawfully parked cars? There were only 38 unlawfully parked cars at 3 pm yesterday afternoon. The previous Sunday, at 1 pm, there were 50 - and the vehicles were still arriving. There is no way that they were paying house calls to residents - they were flocking to the beach. The solution? :Park n Ride at the Pak Tam Chung barrier and at the University KCR where there is room for a multi-storey car park. We were promised a Park n Ride when Wu Kai Sha was being built, but that never materialised. AFCD issues these permits to Hoi Ha knowing full well that there is no visitor parking. They even had a student volunteer logging the unlawfully parked cars last Sunday, but they never do anything about the situation; they certainly did not mount a joint operation with the Police last Sunday, and the abuse of the permit system continues and worsens. Does it take a death before anyone in authority actually does anything about this?
Posted on: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 02:12:26 +0000
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