Police asked to tackle reckless driving on Hong Kong’s new Central Kowloon Bypass
Transport Department says it has informed police of vehicles making U-turns at tunnel entrance and heading in opposite direction
The Central Kowloon Bypass’s new Yau Ma Tei section got off to a bumpy start on the first weekday of operations, with police being asked to take action against drivers making U-turns at a tunnel entrance and heading off in the opposite direction.
The Transport Department on Monday also made improvements after motorists complained about poor signage.
During an inspection in the morning, Secretary for Transport and Logistics Mable Chan said that 50,000 vehicles had already used the new bypass section since its launch on Sunday.
“We can see that the traffic at the Gascoigne Road Flyover, Lung Cheung Road [and other] main trunk roads in Kowloon witnessed a marked improvement [on Monday], with conditions being remarkably smooth,” she said.
But a viral clip from the same day shows a cement truck and another heavy-duty vehicle driving down a slope towards the wrong tunnel entrance, near Kai Tak, prompting an outgoing taxi to shift to the roadside to avoid a head-on collision.
Other footage shows instances of a coach, a private vehicle and a taxi at the bypass exit near Kai Tak suddenly cutting across double white lines to change lanes for the Kowloon Bay exit.