Department's park projects are pointless
I appreciate Hong Kong has many parks, however, they are often very dusty and noisy.
This is not because of road or pedestrian traffic, but because the Leisure and Cultural Services Department often digs up a pavement which is in good condition and repaves it with other material, sometimes worse than the existing one. This is probably being done to quickly spend excessive allocated funding for the fiscal year.
For example, it dug up red clay bricks at Quarry Bay Park and replaced them with large concrete bricks at the west entrance. Red clay bricks are more water permeable and do not reflect the heat as much. Now this part of the park will be more prone to water overflow and will be hotter in the summer with the big concrete bricks.
Similar unnecessary work is being done at Victoria Park and on the footbridge of the Central Library.
This work is inconvenient for people using the facilities. I had to walk a long way to find an elevator to go up to the library with my son in a stroller and had to make a detour to avoid the noise and dust at Victoria Park.
I suggest the department should spend the excess in a more productive way.
