Some of my regular passengers have cars, but they still choose to take a taxi to work because the traffic is so bad. They drive their own cars only on holidays and in an emergency.

If there is a new road from Central to Wan Chai, you can guess what will happen. In a short while, the traffic flow will improve.

But then, more and more people will drive their cars again and there will be congestion again. Hong Kong is so small and there is no way to satisfy all the demands.

We taxi drivers have to make a living on the roads. We all hate traffic jams. Austin Road in Jordan and Des Voeux Road are the worst.

Traffic improved a bit when the economy was poor - not many people went out at night. But now there are more and more traffic jams, especially on Friday and Saturday nights.

People have money in their pockets again and they want to go out and spend. The other day, I drove from Central to Causeway Bay and it took me 30 minutes.

There are many other ways the government can improve the traffic flow.

The first thing officials have to do is to cut down the number of buses. There are so many buses on the road. The other day I was driving in Central and there were eight buses around me. I was stuck in the middle for 10 minutes.

There are so many bus routes and many of them are duplicates. The government should ask the bus companies to cut some routes.

The government should also control the growth of private car use. Many young people want to learn to drive, and when the economy gets better many people go out and buy cars. But I don't think drivers should be charged for using the road.

I like the harbour very much. When I am stuck in the taxi for long hours, I feel relaxed when looking at the harbour.

In the 1970s, we could drive on vehicle ferries to cross the harbour, and some taxi passengers chose not to cross the harbour by the tunnel but by these ferries. They told me they wanted to enjoy the harbour scene. One man even paid me double fare for this.

The reclamation projects have also polluted the waters. When I was young, I went swimming at beaches in Tuen Mun, but now the water there is like sewage.

The only place you can swim in clean water now is in Sai Kung. Even Repulse Bay is now very polluted.

When I was young, I liked rowing a sampan in Lai Chi Kok, off the beach outside Lai Yuen amusement park. Now the whole beach is gone. It is now just a piece of land.

I don't think the reclamation is good for Hong Kong people. The government probably wants to have more land to sell to wealthy property developers.

Why doesn't the government do more to help the unemployed and low-income families? Many taxi drivers are making less than $10,000 a month; some cannot even make $100 profit a day.

This government is disappointing. I like our harbour more than our government.