Driving in Lantau

[HK_Katherine]

Yes - I actually just signed up for it myself. I saw none in South Lantau (two in Tung Chung, I guess you could always message them and ask!). But there are many cars in other places, eventually someone in South Lantau will sign up! Or you could buy a car, get the permit and rent it out yourself for the 90% of the time you don't need it! It seemed all of the reasonably priced cars were being rented every weekend judging from the date of each review....

[Akael]

What is it about a policy to restrict the number of cars on in a place with basically one narrow, very windy, road (often filled with cows and hikers) that makes people want to flout it?

It's like telling a toddler not to do something

Or it might be because it's one of the best roads in Hong Kong. I find it funny that you bring up cows and hikers as if I am unable to process them and would simply plough right through. The road is so criminally underused that a few outlaws now and then shouldn't make any difference whatsoever.

Oh and you just described every road in Hong Kong (replace cows with Alphards)

[scrambler]

one of the best roads in HK driven on by people with little common sense... so many double white line jumpers there!actually I blame the gubbermint for putting zoo many double whites every where... like the boy that cried wolf they seem to get ignored...

[HowardCoombs]

From what I have seen whilst being on the 3M bus in South Lantau, there do not appear to be any cameras, automatic enforcement cameras, or checkpoint barriers - unless someone knows otherwise?

Police regularly hang out on Tung Chung road and check. I dont know how frequent as I dont live there but I have been stopped once or twice while riding with friends (yes, they had permits).

Ask your car owning neighbors - they should know better.

[dossier]

Thanks. Riding as in Motorbiking through there?

I have a full motorbike licence too and figured it would be a very interesting - if challenging - biking route


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[scrambler]

maybe its too interesting... u have the bus drivers who can drive the route with their eyes closed...
u have potential cattle around blind corners... so u should ride slowly - but then u will get the ire of island drivers - who assume the the double whites are only advisory and since the road is usually quiet then overtaking into a blind corner is 'probably' ok..

or they so far up your arse - you can take this corner MUCH faster than that...

route twiske is better perhaps and if u tag it onto bridespool u have a pretty epic one - tho I wouldnt do either of those late at night anymore - not after the number of wipe outs from cars I've seen up there..

[dossier]

Thanks. I'll stick to trying it in a car first and maybe think about a bike later!


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[dossier]

Is there any process to get two Closed Road Permits per household in South Lantau?