Letters | Use lane dividers in Central Hong Kong to combat illegal parking

The problem identified on Ice House Street is relatively recent. Far more long-standing – more than 25 years, to my knowledge – is the one along the whole length of Chater Road, especially outside the Prince’s Building (now rebranded as Landmark Prince’s). Here, cars are illegally parked – as well as double-parked to boot – right up to the traffic lights. I believe that is illegal in itself, whether they are double-parked or not. Chater Road is often reduced to a single lane of traffic, and this in the very centre of a major city.

This will create a funnel such that a car entering that lane will be blocked until any vehicle already in the lane has exited it. To put it another way, it will create peer pressure between the illegal parkers to clear the problem themselves.

John Barclay, Mid-Levels