My TakeHere’s a solution to parking woes: don’t drive

Lawmaker Frankie Yick Chi-ming has rounded on the government for tendering a public car park in Central for office redevelopment, saying its loss will worsen the area’s traffic woes. But it’s the opposite that’s true

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Lawmakers Frankie Yick Chi-ming at Legco meeting in Legco Building in Tamar. Photo: Felix Wong

Published: 12:41am, 29 Apr 2017Updated: 12:41am, 29 Apr 2017

Does Liberal Party lawmaker Frankie Yick Chi-ming drive himself or is he chauffeured to meetings at the Legislative Council?

Either way, I suggest he tries travelling on public transport like the rest of us if he is so afraid of worsening traffic congestion in the Central business district from Monday. After all, that will be one fewer car on the road.

In fact, I think all our lawmakers should make a point of not travelling in private cars when going to Legco to attend to the people’s business. They should set an example.

Yick - like other I-have-the-right-to pollute-the-air car groups such as the Land Transportation Alliance and Public Transport Research Team - is upset that the government is tendering the five-storey public car park in Murray Road for office redevelopment, with the loss of 388 spaces for private cars and 55 for motorcycles from May 1.

The Murray Road car park located in Admiralty will be tendered for office redevelopment. Photo: Sam Tsang

The legislator, who represents the transport functional constituency, has rounded on the government for failing to compensate the loss of the parking spaces, which would surely worsen traffic in Central, or so he claims.