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Balancing the Need to Travel with the Need to Improve Our Quality of LifeSustainable Transport Opportunities for the Harbourfront

Presented by Mr Fred Brown,Chief Executive, The MVA Group

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Hong Kong

HARBOUR AREA

Neighbourhoods

People

A World City

A LiveableCity

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The Harbour – The Image of Hong Kong

The centre piece of Hong Kong

• Commerce

• Entertainment

• Tourism

• Transport

• Homes

A Super-Icon

A Super-Icon

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Hong Kong ReclamationOriginally a resource to accommodate urban growth and economic development

Now seen as an asset in itself to be maintained for the community

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Adjusting transport strategies to meet balanced economic, environmental and social development

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Pollution in Hong Kong

Asia’s World City

with a Third World Environment

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Extending Consultation to Participation,Implementation and Travel Choice

A better educated and more affluent public want more involvement and can bring new insights and ideas

Participation in the process to enable the public to take on greater civic responsibilities and make better choices

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Policy Directions

• Priority to rail and public transport

• Balanced infrastructure development

• Managing road use including vehicle ownership restraint

• Promoting environmentally friendly modes

• Promoting walking and pedestrian facilities

The challenge is to turn policy statements into coordinated plans and implement them

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Boundary Crossings and Modes

Destination for International and Cross-boundary Travel

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Future Railway Network

By 2021 Rail Network Coverage will Approach International LevelsProviding the Opportunity for Sustainable Transport Initiatives

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Future Highway Network

Future Roads for Planning and Environmental Objectives not just to Meet Traffic Growth

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Bus Network Optimisation

• World Class Bus System• Environmentally Advanced Vehicles• Lack of Integration with Rail

• Greater Priority?

• Reorientation as Railways Expand?

• Maintain Choice?

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Role of Our StreetsStreets were once for people and public transport but now are often seen as movement space for vehicles with poor environments

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Changing the MindsetWhat We Don’t Want

What We Want

• Resource waste

• Economic costs

• Social dislocation

• Environmental deterioration

• People-oriented

• Energy efficient

• High mobility

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Car Ownership and Traffic Growth

Hong Kong must continue to contain traffic levels for economic, social and environmental reasons - HOW

In the 1980s Hong Kong had the foresight to restrain vehicle ownership

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Containing Traffic Growth

Objectives – congestion, environment, economic

Ownership RestraintSuccessful since early 1980s fundamental policy

Network ManagementReallocation of roadspace to more efficient users and for planning and environmental purposes

Changing Behaviour - Voluntary carpooling / staggered flows, limited impact in Hong Kong

Complex issues requiring full public participation and concensus

Changing Behaviour – PricingCongestion charging / Eco charging

Reduced traffic by 15-25%

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Road Map to Sustainable Transport

Bringing the components together to form a strategy which meets the community needs

Rail

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Overarching Objectives

• Promote the harbour, waterfronts and immediate hinterland as the centrepiece of Hong Kong.

• Facilitate residents and visitors to access, move around in and participate in social and economic activities in a vibrant, safe, secure and healthy environment.

• Develop the opportunities and roles of citizens and travellers in contributing to sustainable development through travel choice.

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Transportation Objectives

• Provide a multi-modal inclusive transport system to meet the needs of all travellers.

• Create a comprehensive people-oriented travel environment to maximise opportunities for walking, social interaction and mobility.

• Promote the use of environmentally friendly mass carriers, especially railways and modern road-based public transport.

• Respect and capitalise on essential transport infrastructure provision.

• Contain road traffic growth to prevent traffic congestion and help resolve street level air quality and noise problems

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Central and Wanchai : Opportunities

Transport to support new development concepts Source :

Designing Hong Kong

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Future Harbour Area Road Network

A largely underground strategic network provides opportunities to reorientate surface road hierarchies to favour pedestrians and public transport – not just to permit traffic growth

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IntegratedTransport Plan

Central and Wanchai Example

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Reordering the Road Network Hierarchy

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Future Railway Network in Harbourfront Area

• All activity areas within 500m of a railway station

• Multi-modal hubs integrating rail and bus

• Hubs to distribute international and cross-boundary travellers

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Environmentally Friendly Transport :Intermediate Capacity Systems

Modern and environmentally friendly modes for intermediate capacity quality (high priority) corridors

Bus Rapid Transit

Automatic People Movers

Wireless Tram

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Making the Most of the Tramway

An icon and a public transport system

• Des Voeux Road Central Precinct• Antique Tramway on the Reclamation

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Pedestrian Space

• Strategic

• Local

• Active

• Passive / Recreational

Should planned and implemented as seriously as rail and road networks• Free• Environmentally

friendly• Energy efficient• Socially cohesive• Space efficientThe most sustainablemode

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Past Walking StrategiesTsim Sha Tsui

Central Mid-levels SchemeWest Kowloon Reclamation

NW-Kowloon Scheme

Strategic plans have been implemented piecemeal losing community and network connectivity

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Grasping Opportunities Ahead :Harbour Walk and Cross Harbour Walk

Comprehensive, continuous, comprehensible and connected

Pedestrian Cross Harbour

Walk

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Pedestrian and Public Transport Network Plan

Creating a public transport and pedestrian cityE-Trans

port

SystemE-Transport

System

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Harbour Facilities and Opportunities

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Harbour Hopper Days

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Future Possibilities for Daily Travel

Changing D

aily

Routines

Changing D

aily

Routines

Reducing Environm

ental /

Carbon Footprin

tsReducing

Environmental /

Carbon Footprin

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Striking the Right Balance

What are the priorities for the harbour area andharbourfront• Comprehensive pedestrian networks and people

dominated environments?• Continuous harbour waterfront walk and cross harbour

walk?• Expanding the railway network further and giving greater

priority to buses?• Introducing new modes?• More coordination or more choice?• With CWB and CKR to rethink the allocation of

roadspace?• To contain traffic growth or build more roads? …

Public participation in direction and implementation, including making better travel choices to create a more liveable city

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Hong Kong

Asia's Travelle

r Friendly City

Hong Kong

Asia's Travelle

r Friendly City