An Sai Kung District Councillor said that outside Tseung Kwan O Plaza and Po Yep Road, many citizens also pass through roadside flowers and cross the road every day, forming a potential safety hazard. The District Councillor said that he had reported to the Transport Department at the District Council that he had requested the installation of additional railings, but there was no positive reply from the Department, and that transitional houses would be completed near the premises and more than 1,000 people would move in, fearing that the situation of crossing the road would become more and more serious, and urged the authorities to install additional railings as soon as possible.


MP Cheung Mei-hung: Every 10 minutes, ten eights cross the street randomly

Sai Kung District Councillor Cheung Mei-hung pointed out that at the location of Po Yep Road outside Tseung Kwan O Plaza and Yi Ming Court, many citizens cross the road through the flowers on the side of the road every day, "10 or <> people every <> minutes." According to the photo provided by him, a sign saying "Do not cross the road here" has been erected there, but there is still no obstruction for members of the public to exit the road and "take a shortcut" to the opposite street through the gap among the flowers.

Cheung Mei-hung pointed out that there were railings in the past, but it is suspected that in 2019, the authorities were worried that some people would remove the railings for other uses, so they changed them to flower bushes. He added that the Traffic and Transport Committee of the Sai Kung District Council had complained to the Transport Department this month about the crossing of the road and requested that the railings be reinstalled, but the Department refused on the grounds of the existing guidelines.

Sai Kung District Councillor Cheung Mei-hung (centre) said that the Traffic and Transport Committee of the Sai Kung District Council had complained to the Transport Department about the crossing of the road and requested that the railings be re-installed, but the Department declined on the grounds of the existing guidelines. (Profile photo/Photo by Lu Ningmin)

The completion of transitional housing will increase the number of people moving in, and the situation will worsen

Cheung Mei-hung mentioned that the District Council had visited the site together with the Transport Department, but the DH staff only said that they would go back to study and there had been progress so far, he criticized the Department's slow response, bluntly saying that this was a safety issue, "The flower bush system obstructs the pedestrian movement, there is a hole, and the people are getting more and more sparse, and I am worried that something will happen sooner or later."

Cheung added that transitional housing will be completed in the second quarter of this year, and more than 1,000 people are expected to move in, and it is feared that the situation of crossing the road will become more and more serious. He urged the Transport Department to install additional railings as soon as possible to prevent pedestrians from crossing the road, "Every second can have an accident at any time, and adding a railing to avoid casualties is dangerous for a day later." In the long run, he suggested that the authorities could consider adding flyovers.

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