Traffic in HK seems pretty good overall

[dossier]

Compared to other cities, such as London or Beijing, vehicle traffic in HK Island seems pretty good - especially at the weekend (which would be a heavy time for central London). Have I missed the traffic or overall is it pretty good in Hong Kong?

[Mat]

Compared to other cities, such as London or Beijing, vehicle traffic in HK Island seems pretty good - especially at the weekend (which would be a heavy time for central London). Have I missed the traffic or overall is it pretty good in Hong Kong?

Pretty good overal. A few black spot (HungHom tunnel at peak hours), some parts of central or cwb at peak hours but yeah overall pretty good.


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[jmbf]

I'm waiting for TB to come in and say HK traffic is the worst ever......

[wtbhotia]

Delhi, Jakarta too name a few are bad but Dhaka was the worst traffic that I have ever been in my whole life, 30 km ride took 3 hours each way, one time took 4 hours to get back to hotel FFS.

[East_coast]

If you would like some light reading then this report was recently accepted by the transport bureau from their principle advisory committee

http://www.thb.gov.hk/eng/boards/tra...ng_C_cover.pdf

Even with the building of new roads the average car journey speed in urban areas dropped by about 11% from 25.6 km/h in 2003 to 22.7 km/h in 2013 where London is around 24 km/m.

Given Hong Kong has a much higher vehicle ownership rate per Km of road the generally free flowing traffic outside the known politically too sensitive congestion hotspots is pretty impressive.

[MrRotavator]

Given Hong Kong has a much higher vehicle ownership rate per Km of road the generally free flowing traffic outside the known politically too sensitive congestion hotspots is pretty impressive.

Hong Kong is listed #114 in this list of car ownership statistics

List of countries by vehicles per capita - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Seems not very high..

[Skyhook]

East coast has been told this before Rote, but for some reason she thinks that car ownership is high over here. Never quite understood why though.

To me, HK has a VERY high concentration of heavy commercial vehicles on the road,, many more times than what I am used to seeing elsewhere I have lived. Kind of understandable, when majority of people here DONT own/drive a car, also highlighted by one of the worlds highest public transport adoption/useage rates per capita, in the first world...

[East_coast]

Hong Kong is listed #114 in this list of car ownership statistics

Seems not very high..

A better measure is probably the vehicles per Km of road available to use

Vehicle ownership has gone up a lot since this chart was published.

[Skyhook]

How many commercial vehicles ie diesel vans, light/heavy trucks and buses are on the road at any one time of the day in the HKG, Easty ?

lets compare that stat to other first world cities...

[wtbhotia]

East coast has been told this before Rote, but for some reason she thinks that car ownership is high over here. Never quite understood why though.

Easty is a SHE, Holy frack frack WTF

No wonder she bombards us with data, she would do well as a research assistant.