Transport Department could do more to curb speeding in Lantau

I am dismayed by the Transport Department's defeatist attitude towards the persistent problem of motorists speeding through villages and past schools along South Lantau Road.

The Lantau Buffalo Association's volunteers strive to improve road safety and protect free-roaming cattle and water buffaloes, treasured by tourists and residents. They have provided reflective collars, making the animals more visible to motorists, but they need extended support from the authorities. Lantau's bovines are injured and killed on the roads by drivers who flagrantly flout speed limits with seeming impunity. This concerns us all, not just those interested in animal welfare, because it is inevitable that speeding motorists will eventually be responsible for a preventable accident involving humans. Will it take a human tragedy to wake the department from its slumber?

Mr Luk said speed cameras are installed depending on the "prevalence of speeding activities observed by police".

How effective are these observations and what form do they take?

When I am in a speeding Lantau taxi and remind the driver of the speed limit, the police are nowhere to be seen. If they were, drivers would not habitually speed.