Congestion as crowd returns to work after typhoon signal lowered
Workers had to wait up to an hour for buses in heavy traffic yesterday morning as Severe Typhoon Usagi left the city.
Workers had to wait up to an hour for buses in heavy traffic yesterday morning as Typhoon Usagi left the city.
One of the worst-hit areas was the Southern District, which does not have a railway service.
Huge crowds appeared at the Lei Tung Estate bus terminus in Ap Lei Chau soon after the Observatory lowered the typhoon signal No8 to No3 at 9.20am.
At 11.30am, there were still more than 80 people waiting for a bus to Central. Most of the other routes were back to normal.
May Ip, who was at the front of the line, said she had been waiting for about an hour but there were no buses. The clerk was trying to get to work in Central before 11.20am.
Ip said she was unhappy about the bus service but satisfied with warnings given by the Observatory. "It said early in the morning that the signal would be lowered before 10am, so I was well prepared," she said.
But Phillip Sin, a shipping clerk who waited half an hour for a bus to Kwun Tong, said the Observatory should have been more specific about the time it would lower the signal.