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New routes to the Country Park Since the pandemic, local visitors to Sai Kung have increased significantly. Flocking to the town for hiking and beach trips, many visitors are stuck waiting for a bus into the Country Park for hours. Double decker bus company, KMB has recently
Park smarter Last month the town welcomed a set of new smart parking metres to 15 on-street parking spaces on Yi Chun Street. The new metres operate daily from 8am to 8pm and charge $2 per 15 minutes. Drivers top up the parking metre via the mobile app, HKeMeter for up to two hours. While the classic metres only took Octopus payment, these smart meters can be paid using Visa payWave, MasterCard Contactless and UnionPay QuickPass along with Alipay, WeChat Pay and Union QR.
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revealed that they are considering opening new routes to public areas in the Country Park. “KMB will study the possibility of establishing temporary routes to go to hotspots for picnics, such as the recently popular hotspots Lau Shui Heung Reservoir,
Fanling and High Island Reservoir, said KMB Communications and Public Affairs Department Director Addie Lam Tze Ho. While this may clear up some of Sai Kung’s traffic problems, the new routes may encourage even more visitors to the town.
Cathay Pacific cuts major international flights As of February 20, Cathay Pacific temporarily suspended a bulk of its flights to Australia, with Sydney now the last remaining destination for the Hong Kong carrier. Other international flights to be slashed include Auckland, San Francisco, Vancouver, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Seoul, Kuala Lumpur and Ho Chi Minh City. Cathay said the Hong Kong SAR government’s latest announcement over hotel quarantine was behind the moves. “Our Hong Kongbased pilots and cabin crew are required to undergo 14 days of hotel quarantine, plus seven days of medical surveillance when they return to Hong Kong,” the airline said in a statement. “We are actively managing
our crew resources to plan for our flight services for March 2021.”
