"Jaywalking" Crack Down...

[jayinhongkong]

Do I get a pass for my name :'(

[hongkongmusic]

The elderly road sweeping people with their bamboo brooms must get hit by vehicles all the time. Something you'd expect to see in Cambodia, not Hong Kong.

[mtkl]

Being English this one has always confounded me. I can’t cross at a traffic lights unless the pedestrian signal is green but I can cross the road elsewhere (assuming it is pavement to pavement and I’m not jumping over barriers etc? Is that right?

Just picture two KMB buses parked tightly together at the traffic lights and then cross behind them. That'll be 22-25m, so you're okay.

The law is two parts
1. 15m from lights, zebra crossing, uncontrolled crossing which says look left, look right but have no lights (I think), flyover, subway, etc.....
2. provided there are no fences, barriers or mystical neon-orange tape on either side of the road or in the middle).

Do I get a pass for my name :'(

Possible jail time for premeditated jaywalking?

The elderly road sweeping people with their bamboo brooms must get hit by vehicles all the time. Something you'd expect to see in Cambodia, not Hong Kong.

Yes, but justice is served with two month sentences.

The elderly road sweeping people with their bamboo brooms must get hit by vehicles all the time. Something you'd expect to see in Cambodia, not Hong Kong.

So much wrong there. Sweeping instead of using machines/handheld equipment, age/health condition, lack of PPE/vehicular-protection...

[Bob Loblaw]

Sometimes they barely even look.

Nobody ever looks. Drives me crazy. Jaywalking, not jaywalking, with the light, against the light, with the right of way, against the right of way, just step out there everyone else'll adjust.

[ArrynField]

Jaywalker casually crosses the road, without a care in the world…

https://youtu.be/P7IVrUFVWAA?si=3b7Uq7zd7j7KJEC5

[UniqueUserName]

For millions of years roads were for feet and walking.
What was Hong Kong like before cars?
What would it be like without the cars?
Given those realities, why do we give priority to cars?
Have some consideration for the human experience.
Make this a habit so that you're prepared when neural-link and AI start changing our environment as much as cars have for our daily lives.

[hullexile]

For millions of years roads were for feet and walking.
What was Hong Kong like before cars?
What would it be like without the cars?
Given those realities, why do we give priority to cars?
Have some consideration for the human experience.
Make this a habit so that you're prepared when neural-link and AI start changing our environment as much as cars have for our daily lives.

Not sure roads have been around for millions of years

[flyingmmike]

I kind of have a bad taste in my mouth about a hk$2k fine, when you can illegally park for hk$320 or run a red light driving for hk$450. The fines should be similar, and yes in these cases that they caused an accident fine they can be higher. If I ever cross the road inappropriately then of course I’m looking and making sure there’s no traffic nearby. These close calls are sickening. But people crossing at a crosswalk that has no traffic I don’t see anything wrong with that.

Also, the sidewalks are too small, there’s not enough space for all of the people. Some roads need to be permanently closed to be pedestrian all of the time, not just random hours, and any new buildings or developments should have much wider sidewalks. I cannot imagine being handicap here, you have light posts in the middle of the sidewalk with a fence on the sides and no space to fit in between. The Hk people disrespect the elderly to unacceptable levels.

Once I saw an elderly crossing the road and couldn’t make it. I stopped the car put my hazards on and helped her. Meanwhile 2 cars and a police tried to run me over. I almost lost my shit so they all quickly left after they saw how stupid they were.

[tropic]

It seems HK is becoming more clinical and inconvenient, harder to dispose of rubbish, harder to cross roads, harder to get to the airport (fewer buses, and ae in town check in limited to cx only), harder to discuss politics openly, harder to access tik tok or openai chatgpt, shops & restaurants closing earlier, raising the price of a plastic or paper bag when shopping, more steps & procedures to get sim cards, more restrictions to protests like the capped-at-100-people Tseung Kwan O reclamation project protest, banning of disposable plastic like plastic tableware at restaurants, plastic toothpicks, straws, cutlery, umbrella bags, banning of plastic based toiletries in hotel rooms including bottled water, banning of e-cigarettes, vapes and cbd oil, starting to charge for municipal solid waste bags, still no roadmap for legalization of ride sharing apps like Uber or Grab, etc.

[Grinnie Jax]

It seems HK is becoming more clinical and inconvenient, harder to dispose of rubbish, harder to cross roads, harder to get to the airport (fewer buses, and ae in town check in limited to cx only), harder to discuss politics openly, harder to access tik tok or openai chatgpt, shops & restaurants closing earlier, raising the price of a plastic or paper bag when shopping, more steps & procedures to get sim cards, more restrictions to protests like the capped-at-100-people Tseung Kwan O reclamation project protest, banning of disposable plastic like plastic tableware at restaurants, plastic toothpicks, straws, cutlery, umbrella bags, banning of plastic based toiletries in hotel rooms including bottled water, banning of e-cigarettes, vapes and cbd oil, starting to charge for municipal solid waste bags, still no roadmap for legalization of ride sharing apps like Uber or Grab, etc.

I really hate to agree, but you are kinda right. I've moved to HK from Mainland because HK was better than Mainland exactly from all these perspectives. And now when I go to Shenzhen, I feel that HK not only moved closer to regular Mainland city, some aspects became harder, as you say. Food delivery is miles better in Shenzhen. Taxis - better, quicker and cheaper. More brands in the shopping malls - almost all brands left HK already. Less police in the streets (somehow). Vapes can be purchased officially. Restaurants are cheaper and the quality reached HK level.