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Letters | Hong Kong should set a traffic deaths and injuries reduction target
- Readers discuss a 2030 road safety goal for Hong Kong and the policing of parking
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The World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims takes place annually on the third Sunday of November, yet this remembrance day will pass quietly like an electric car. This year’s theme is justice, but if no one remembers, the chances of justice are slim.
More than 3,700 people have died on our roads between 1997 and 2021, with almost half a million road injuries. The Road Safety Council should organise an event each year – and perhaps KMB could consider sponsoring it – to remember those who were killed and injured on our roads.
In August 2020, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution on improving global road safety. It proclaimed a second Decade of Action for Road Safety from 2021 to 2030, with the goal of reducing road traffic deaths and injuries by 50 per cent.
I call upon the Transport Department to make this Hong Kong’s goal. A 50 per cent reduction in traffic deaths and injuries by 2030 is an achievable goal.
Neil Dunn, Kowloon Tong
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