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Following is a question by the Hon Law Chi-kwong and a written reply by the Secretary for Transport, Mr Nicholas Ng, in the Legislative Council today (May 17):

Question:

Will the Government inform this Council of:

(a) the number of fixed penalty tickets issued to motorcycle owners for illegal parking in each of the past five years;

(b) the number of motorcycle parking spaces on residential development land at the end of each of the past five years; and

(c) the current supply and demand situations of motorcycle parking spaces in various districts in Hong Kong during rush hours and non-rush hours respectively?

Reply :

Madam President,

(a) The number of fixed penalty tickets issued to motorcycle owners for illegal parking in the past five years is as follows:

       1995     1996     1997       1998       1999




    55,749    49,351    44,693     32,747     22,363

(b) The number of motorcycle parking spaces on residential development land in the past five years is as follows:

      1995     1996       1997       1998     1999




     9,936   10,023     10,221     10,521    11,466

(c) We do not have statistics on motorcycle parking provision on the basis of rush and non-rush hours. Instead, parking demand is assessed under two categories : non-domestic demand (at places of the non-home end of the vehicle trips such as offices, shops and places of entertainment) and domestic demand (at place of residence). In 1999, there were shortfalls of 4,350 non-domestic and 11,900 domestic motorcycle parking spaces. The Hong Kong Planning Standards and Guidelines have been revised since November 1996 to impose a new requirement for the provision of motorcycle parking spaces at five to 10 per cent of the total provision for private cars in new developments. The supply of motorcycle parking spaces will increase substantially as the new developments come on stream. Assuming that the low growth rate of motorcycles in the past two years will continue, it is expected that the shortfall of non-domestic and domestic parking spaces will be reduced significantly to 1,800 and 2,000 respectively in 2006.

End/Wednesday, May 17, 2000

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