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Measures to reduce congestion at airport arrivals hall
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Following is a question by the Hon Eric Li Ka-cheung and a written reply by the Secretary for Economic Services, Mr Gordon Siu, in the Legislative Council today (Wednesday):
Question:
As private cars are not allowed to park temporarily on the road outside the arrival area of the Hong Kong International Airport for picking up or setting down passengers, arriving travellers requiring pick-up by private cars have to push their large luggage trolleys to the lift lobby in the arrival area and take the lift to get to the car park on the second floor or above, thus causing heavy congestion in the lift lobby area. In view of this, will the Government inform this Council whether :
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
escalators or passenger conveyors will be installed for the exclusive use of arriving travellers not using luggage trolleys to enable them to get to the car park more quickly;
ramps for passengers and luggage trolleys will be built to link up the car park with the arrival area;
luggage couriers will be employed to handle the travellers' luggage centrally and to make deliveries to various floors of the car park as requested by the travellers; and
there are any plans to implement other improvement measures; if so, what the details are and when they will be implemented?
Answer:
(a)
In order to reduce the congestion in the Arrivals Hall caused by arriving passengers with baggage trolleys queuing for lifts to go the multi-storey car park, we encourage those passengers with light baggage to make use of the external escalators. There are directional signs installed to guide passengers to these escalators which operate between the arrivals level and the third floor of the Passenger Terminal Building, where they can cross over by bridge to the car park.