Parking spaces plunder house land

The Legislative Council Panel on Transport discussed parking policy on Monday. Documents submitted by the government confirmed that traffic congestion in Hong Kong is becoming increasingly congested and has a negative impact on the community. Attending the private sector and transport industry organizations and groups, unanimously force government policy is not, requiring more supply parking spaces. In fact, the source of the problem is the sharp increase in the number of vehicles (especially private cars) in recent years. However, the community is not concerned with the source of the problem. Instead, it indirectly helps to aggravate the source. The unrestricted growth in the number of private vehicles has led to an endless increase in the demand for parking spaces. This has put heavy pressure on the hard-pressed land and space in Hong Kong and has plundered the negative impact on society of the sites and spaces that could be used to build the most urgent housing. Why is it so simple as the paper says “the deterioration of roadside air threatens the safety of road users?”

As for environmental protection policies, the government should promote “waste reduction at the source”, including pressing levies on plastic bags to force the public to reduce waste. However, transport policies run counter to the principle. Not only are they reluctant to work hard at the source of traffic congestion and control the growth of private cars, Instead, they try to provide parking spaces through different channels and “meet” (the official phrase) the needs of private car users. In the case of a shortage of land for housing construction and a wave of property price increases, the Government has provided about 19,000 parking spaces through the new development and redevelopment projects in the past three years. Together with the 32,000 parking spaces provided by the existing short-term lease car parks As well as about 5,200 private carparks in public carparks under the Transport Department (TD), is the Government doing the same as making land “grunts”?

The Land Supply Task Force is now considering 15 options for increasing land supply from an open source perspective. These are difficult problems and most will have a negative impact on the natural environment and ecology. Implementation time is even more “far away.” Official documents show that it will take more than 20 years to develop the new township of Ho Pik Wan to fill up the reservoirs. It is estimated that the development of country parks will take 15 to 18 years to complete the first phase of the project, the development of caves may take 10 to 15 years, the reclamation outside Victoria Harbor As soon as the land is available as early as 2026, the earliest possible time to live in brownfield housing will have to wait until 2023.

Compared with the above “open source” option, it is hoped that “cutting off” will tighten the supply of new berths for private cars and free up land and space for development. It will not be necessary to spend a great deal of time and public money on research and development. It can be provided shortly More residential units will definitely not have a negative impact on the natural environment. I have been making this initiative in the past few years. Unfortunately, the government has no response. Are you afraid of guilty of having a car class and people who are eager to become owners of private cars?

For the future development of Hong Kong, our most urgent and long-term need is not to provide more personal conveniences and enjoyment to the public than more private cars and parking spaces. Instead, the government hopes to create sustainable development in the “Hong Kong 2030+” vision and strategy Livable City. When a small number of people prefer to sit in private cars to block traffic congestion while most of them want to squeeze into smaller ones than private car parks, how can Hong Kong be called a livable city? Due to its limited population and dense population, Hong Kong has a developed public transportation system that is cheaper, more affordable and cheaper than other international cities. It provides different and more economical options for individual transport needs. There is no strong justification for the unlimited growth of private cars and berths.

In fact, many metropolitan cities that are plagued by traffic problems have in recent years taken an active part in controlling private cars and even commercial vehicles in the urban areas and encouraged citizens to use other forms of public transport to share their bicycles. Private transport, such as electric bicycles (unlike the popularly named motorcycles), which take up very little space, is starting to emerge. Can Hong Kong people and government departments take some time to think?

Some people will surely oppose the proposal of reducing the new supply of private car parking spaces. This includes criticizing that this will lead to speculation and speculation in private car berths and create a social unhealthy trend. Honestly, people are willing to buy or rent private car berths at “epileptic prices” and they do not mind suffering from traffic congestion. They are either fools or wealthy people who want to show off their sportsmanship. After all, people who are not good at driving public transport are limited.