Failing to jam airport-bound traffic on Saturday, Hong Kong’s anti-government protesters vow to return with disruption plan next weekend
- Protesters fail to show up in enough numbers to disrupt traffic by 7am
- They announce their plan to come back with similar disruption next weekend
Anti-government protesters, who failed in their plan to jam airport-bound traffic on Saturday morning, have vowed to make a comeback next weekend.
But though the protesters had planned to skirt the legal order which only covered roads within or near Chek Lap Kok island where the airport complex is located, they did not have enough peers show up to stall traffic or overcrowd transports by the scheduled starting time – 7am.
Later in the day, a group named with the movement’s theme “Stuck with you” issued a message on messaging application Telegram thanking their supporters for carrying out the “tests”. It said the aim of the action was to make aviation workers late for work.
“Our plan this time was inadequate. The Airport Authority adjusted people’s working times and 7am was surely too early. But the test results are very useful,” the post read.
“This event shows that popo [police], the government and the Airport Authority cared so much about our plans and had alternate preparations ready.”