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Transit Jam
Добавлен 7 май 2020
TRANSIT JAM: news and features covering Hong Kong transport safety, sustainable transport, walkability and pedestrian rights.
Triad "Occupy HK" exposing police lies
Triad gangsters occupy large swathes of Hong Kong's public roads and parking spaces, charging drivers a massive premium for public road space or cheap public meters.
One location is Cameron Lane, a charming "street music" hideaway in the heart of the tourist district. It's home to Asia's largest music store: but has been entirely taken over by an aggressive triad gang.
This gang fills up all available space with customer cars, jockeying them around to fit but leaving no space for pedestrians or shoppers.
In a recorded conversation, a police detective told Transit Jam the issue had been solved: but a visit to the site the next night showed the police statement to be a dramatic lie.
"Occupy HK"...
One location is Cameron Lane, a charming "street music" hideaway in the heart of the tourist district. It's home to Asia's largest music store: but has been entirely taken over by an aggressive triad gang.
This gang fills up all available space with customer cars, jockeying them around to fit but leaving no space for pedestrians or shoppers.
In a recorded conversation, a police detective told Transit Jam the issue had been solved: but a visit to the site the next night showed the police statement to be a dramatic lie.
"Occupy HK"...
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Tourism sites still selling guesthouse rooms in "dangerous" deathtrap
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Booking sites are offering Hong Kong guesthouses in a building marked "dangerous" by the government: not only are fire repair works ongoing but many fire hazards remain unsolved Hotel booking sites are still selling rooms in a fire-ravaged Hong Kong building condemned as “dangerous” by the government, a Transit Jam investigation has found. A notice posted at the entrance to New Lucky House decl...
Balls of clean air descend on Fortress Hill
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We visited Clean Air Network's ON AIR exhibition at Oi! this week - a chance to try out the "dust-free chambers" of Austrian artist Adam Hudec and chat about air pollution with Clean Air Network's CEO Patrick Fung.
Environmental and safety issues at China State Construction Kai Tak site
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Footage from 9 April, 2022, around 12-2pm: open burning on site, littering of public road with cigarette butts by maskless workers, truck wheel washing law ignored, trucks are spreading mud and dust all over the public roads in the vicinity, driving without care
Zero bike parking at Hong Kong's 3-million-sq-ft harbourside mall
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New World Development (NWD) this week announced a new $50 million "Green Transport Alliance" with oil firm Shell and Hong Kong' BMW dealer Sime Darby. We took a visit to NWD's largest mall, K11 Musea, to find out more. One problem -there's no bicycle parking anywhere at the 30-million square foot complex. And while there's a 300,000sq ft car park, with space for 1,200 cars, bicycles are not all...
Delivering Lion Rock Tunnel petition to Highways Department
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Today, Transit Jam founder James Ockenden and the chairman of the Hong Kong Cycling Alliance Martin Turner delivered a 750-strong petition to the Highways Department calling for a feasibility study into a biking and walking tunnel as part of the Lion Rock Tunnel Upgrade.
HK's next CE: "Road Safety is an important area"
Просмотров 652 года назад
Hong Kong's sole Chief Executive candidate today told Transit Jam road safety was "an important area", but that all road users, including pedestrians, needed to play their part. "What is important is citizen awareness of their own behaviour," he said. "So it is also important that people know the rules and regulations, the proper behavior in crossing roads collectively. Then then I think the ro...
HK's next CE talks transport
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Hong Kong's likely next Chief Executive has spoken on transport policy for the first time, saying he wishes to make "accessibility an easy thing for people in Hong Kong" Read more... Lee's comments came during a visit to Hong Kong Science and Technology Park on Saturday morning, where he visited ASTRI and the Robotics Catalysing Centre. When asked how "smart city" worked with basic transport su...
City2Trail: taking the pig track
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City2Trail is a contest seeking to crowdsource routes between the city and our trail network. Here's Transit Jam editor James Ockenden with an entry, a quick and fun shortcut connecting Pok Fu Lam Road with the Hong Kong Trail. Enter your own route through transitjam.com/city2trail and win great prizes including 2x$1000 at Gone Running and T8 Performance socks!
Bike parking at new Tsuen Wan track
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Critical Mass July 2021 took a trip from TST to the new Tsuen Wan cycle track a good track, if short, but with strange and largely useless designs on bicycle parking!
Pedestrianise Queen's Road Central
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A fun break-filler produced for the KPMG Connected Cities Conference 2021 - Pedestrianise Queen's Road Central.
The essence of trust: Hong Kong's Intermodal Transport Data Sharing Programme
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In 2018, TRPC's John Ure brought together a Hong Kong-based Team of researchers to answer the question: what would persuade the many privately owned and operated public transport service providers in Hong Kong, to agree to share data with an independent third party? This data could provide government and the public with the means to plan for a more fully integrated intermodal transport system, ...
Ride of Silence 2021
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Speech by Martin Turner at the Hong Kong Ride of Silence 2021. Full story on Transit Jam and below: The government's failure to collect data on cycling reflects the city's failure to support cycling and leaves officials in the dark when it comes to developing transport policy, according to the chairman of the Hong Kong Cycling Alliance, Martin Turner. Turner's comments came at Hong Kong's 16th ...
An artist's view of public space
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Artist Elizabeth Briel spent quarantine making prints and paintings of every light and air conduit in her Sham Shiu Po apartment - here, we discuss the boundaries between public and private space.
Black market valet parking on Cameron Lane
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A short break video for Transit Jam 2020 attendees - exposing the illegal valet parking on Cameron Lane, TST.
Push the Button: Citizen Data Lab Zoom Webinar
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Push the Button: Citizen Data Lab Zoom Webinar
Trail tattoos, plastic pollution and Everesting Lion Rock with Wong Ho-fai
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Trail tattoos, plastic pollution and Everesting Lion Rock with Wong Ho-fai
Luxury Merc in Borrett Road cliff plunge
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Luxury Merc in Borrett Road cliff plunge
Celebrate World Car Free Day with one-touch illegal parking reporting button!
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Celebrate World Car Free Day with one-touch illegal parking reporting button!
Rethinking "Vehicles First" | Session 5: Two wheels (legs) bad
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Rethinking "Vehicles First" | Session 5: Two wheels (legs) bad
Rethinking "Vehicles First" | Session 4: Six wheels good
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Rethinking "Vehicles First" | Session 4: Six wheels good
Rethinking "Vehicles First" | Session 3: Space in the sharing economy
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Rethinking "Vehicles First" | Session 3: Space in the sharing economy
Rethinking "Vehicles First" | Session 2: Parking
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Rethinking "Vehicles First" | Session 2: Parking
Transit Jam 2020: Rethinking Vehicles First and PARKing Day
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Transit Jam 2020: Rethinking Vehicles First and PARKing Day
Rethinking "Vehicles First" | Session 1: public space
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Rethinking "Vehicles First" | Session 1: public space
Driver causes 1km tailback and gets just parking ticket
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Driver causes 1km tailback and gets just parking ticket
Inter-Modal Mobility: Exploring the Exchange Square Public Transport Interchange
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Inter-Modal Mobility: Exploring the Exchange Square Public Transport Interchange
Somehow didnt see that earlier James, gonna do that.
nice one! I musta forgotten to promote this, only had a few views. How young we all look lol.
is it still there I WANT BIEKS
nice video try to go inside the engine room if your allowed
So typical, alas. What always gets me is the certainty and determination of frontline staff that you, person with bicycle, should not be anywhere around here. Is it innate, part of Hong Kong's DNA, or have they been instructed to keep the cycling menace out of sight of normal people?
Pedestrians always block cars' way from driving, by jaywalking.
Not relevant.
Thanks for making this video. I wish it was longer. I hope to ride on the hybrid ferry myself one day.
Why not make the pedestrian crossing points smaller upto 60% as it seems they are far too long ( wide ) for what is needed. Maybe that could help in traffic & pedestrian use. & better control. Otherwise i really DON'T!!! see it improving or helping either traffic or pedestrians get from A to B or A to Z whatever it is it definitely needs a re-think & & re-design on it Maybe they could take a look at how Holland has managed theirs & with some ajustments between the two countries they should be able to come up with some sort of solution to help bad traffic situations like this not just for China, Japan but, for other countries that also have similar issues Russia is proberly another major country with traffic issues ( Proberly has in access of over 300 to 500 road accidents a day possibly more!!!). So, It seems Holland has the best solution so far & other countries should have a nice talk with them on how to solve theirs.
This is something the police proposed too (shortening the crossing) - I can see some benefit, in that it would perhaps highlight the remaining crossing and drivers might respect it more. But then again, I've just now walked through Causeway Bay and even the regular-sized crossings are blocked 99% of the time, so perhaps the crossing width isn't really so much of an issue. As you say, it definitely needs a re-think!
@@transitjam If there isn't traffic lights at these pedestrian crossing points then it could be a really good idea to install them at these points including cameras for those who disobey the rules of the road system ( running red lights, blocking the crossings with a definite fine & prosecution with pena!ty points on their driving or riders license aswell. Hopefully this will help control the traffic much better. & why should the police make the alterations to the crossings whern clearly it's not upto them but, the citie's council to deal with along with the countries government to sort out no one else it's not their responsability. I do hope thery sort it out quickly.
Get rid of the crosswalks!
Hilarious! How difficult can it be to design a secure bike rack?
100% agree, old PTIs are badly designed, looks like kmb, citybus, firstbus, mtr, minibuses just handling the fleets, but not talking through how to use pti in a good way together seamlessly.
2nd pic. How did the taxi hit the cyclist there? One of them must've gone though a red light, I use once in a while bike on that road.
Here's the story on that one: transitjam.com/2020/07/07/taxi-driver-kills-cyclist-in-junction-smash/
@@transitjam read, thanks for that. Probably taxi driver went on the yellow signal of traffic light ( if he failed to stop ) and the cyclist ignored the traffic lights either. I often see cyclists there going wrong directions and disobeying the traffic lights. Sadly it won't bring his life back, RIP.
Not sure how long it will take guts for Transport Department to take actions towards it. 😅
aRUP? It's pronounced with the emphasis on the first syllable: Ah-rup.
Thanks! This has opened a rabbit hole discussion of how Arup is pronounced in British and American English and now nobody can say it quite right 😂
@@transitjam There's a little biopic about him here: ruclips.net/video/b0t3oTZcIPw/видео.html Many people who knew him pronounce his name many times. He's quite a fascinating guy, really. (I've worked for Arup in HK and Australia over the years.)
@@DaveOBrien Thanks, that's really interesting! Will advise interviewees in future.
Very sad that the Hong Kong police don't seem to have any humanity anymore. I appreciate the message of the Hong Kong Cycling Alliance and the way they handled this situation.
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Thanks for sharing 🙏🏼
wow, so new.
Great expose! This should be in the news!
Ows!
Safe yourself and children on the road. Bicycle RUSSIA - the BEST!! !ruclips.net/video/76I5P1ggYQI/видео.html
interesting topic!