Letters | Improving access to Hong Kong’s Deep Water Bay could showcase cross-departmental collaboration
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To enhance the beach and make it more accessible and user-friendly for the public requires a holistic approach which necessitates cross-departmental efforts. We should spare the Golf Club from this discussion so as not to complicate an already difficult issue.
It is very true that “Island Road is substandard; lay-bys for buses are absent”. Beachgoers and passers-by have to manoeuvre in and out of parking bays and often are forced to walk on the road because the pavement is substandard.
Prams have to be folded up and people have to walk in single file along the narrow pavement. For a certain section of the road, there is no pavement at all. It is dangerous for people to walk to the promenade, not just to the beach, as the road is right next to them with buses and vehicles speeding past them.
I often wonder why the access to the beach in Deep Water Bay for the general public is so difficult. If people get there by public transport, bus stops seem to be few and far between. The area that could have accommodated at least one bus lay-by is used as a car parking space.
