The report on the Hong Kong Tourism Board promotion of the Ping Shan Heritage Trail (Sunday Morning Post, March 3) as a star attraction for March focused on one of the board's hare-brained schemes.
Another is the defacing of the Mid-Levels escalator by tacking flower garlands on arches and beams. As one of the hundreds of residents who use the escalator daily, we now have to suffer the eyesore until it is removed.
Not only do the colours assault your aesthetic senses, the garlands are so very poorly installed that the masking tape holding them is either unattractively visible or is already peeling away, leaving the tacky blossoms hanging in mid-air. I would only take back my criticism if it transpired that the flower display provided work for the handicapped.
The money could have been better spent on putting a signpost or a map at the top of the escalator to tell tourists that 'This is not the way to the top of the Peak.' For the past four years I have been taking the escalator to go home every day and I encounter dozens of tourists looking dazed and bewildered.
HO HING-WON
Mid-Levels
