Subsequent to the Institute’s letter addressed to THB on 5 July 2017, HKILA Council Members (Tak Wong, Simon Ng, Iris Hoi) met with the new Task Force/Walkability established in the Transport Department specifically to address Hong Kong’s walkability in the evening of 10 August. We provided landscape advice and recommendations on pedestrianisation and walkability, such as, asking the engineers to consider many issues pertaining to changing the mindset of putting pedestrians over cars, and getting consensus/collaboration with all related departments to ensure the ‘people over cars’ urban corridors design is enforced systematically throughout Hong Kong and not just in pilot areas. We even asked them to have more than just engineers to help with the design, but include multi-disciplinary professionals including landscape architects and architects. It was a very positive meeting and we hope beneficial results will come of these discussions. The Programme Manager (Walkability), Ir. Kevin F.M. Luk, promised to write back to us with a formal reply. We will let you know when we hear more.
Letter dated on 5-Jul-2017:
https://hkila.com.w26.ysdhost.com/file/news-pdf425.pdf