Pedestrians are walking into danger simply by crossing the road as work to improve accident black spots is either minimal or non-existent, critics said yesterday.
Of the top 18 sites identified by the South China Morning Post from government statistics, the Transport Department could give details of improvement works on only five.
In the year to April, six people died and 90 were seriously injured at the sites, all but one of which are in Kowloon.
A site is blacklisted by the department when there have been nine accidents there or six involving pedestrians.
At the worst accident locations - Nathan Road's junctions with Waterloo and Mongkok roads and Argyle Street - crash barriers and warning signs had been erected and traffic signals adjusted.
But Democratic Party transport spokesman Albert Ho Chun-yan said the measures were inadequate.
An elevated pedestrian walkway at the Mongkok Road junction had only been brought into use after an accident last September in which a 46-year-old man was killed and 12 other pedestrians injured by a runaway bus.