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(4) Front entrance the main entrance of our markets is on average 7 m wide, and the side entrance is about 3-5 m wide. The entrances should be enlarged as opening the frontage of the markets would enable immediate and easy viability from outside.
In addition, an open design should be adopted, with curtain walls, prominent signage and display windows, so that the market interior can be seen clearly by market-goers.
(5) Competitions outside Markets—illegal hawkers trading near the markets and often around the entrance not only obstruct the common passageway and hence access to the stalls, but also pose competition to the market stall operators and affect their business. From the control point of view, we should step up enforcement action and strengthen the manpower necessary to carry out such tasks effectively. Itinerant hawker licenses should be cancelled to reduce the chance of the licence holders helping or protecting the illegal hawkers during hawker raids.
The problem should also be tackled at source. The public patronise illegal hawkers often because access to market stalls is difficult and inconvenient. Therefore, we should examine ways and means of providing easy access, including opening up the routes surrounding our markets to motor traffic, providing parking facilities, etc., so that hawkers cannot trade in the middle of the road. In the case of the new Causeway Bay Market at Mercury Street, where the street was previously occupied by fixed pitch stalls, the condition is now much improved following repair of the roads by the Highways Department.
Besides illegal hawkers, fresh provision shops near the markets also pose keen competition to the market stalls. Therefore, easy and convenient access to the stalls is all the more important.
(6) Prominent Signage—signboards on the exterior of market buildings should be prominent and clearly visible. More conspicuous, innovative and pictorial signboards should be displayed at strategic positions near the entrance. There should also be distinct signage on the ground floor and on the side walls of stalls to attract people into the markets and guide people into the suitable stalls.
(7) Poor and Gloomy Lighting—illumination of markets should be improved, adopting where possible non-heat generating form of illumination. Better illumination of markets will give a brighter look and create a more comfortable and appealing environment. To make the markets more transparent and more visible from outside, a supermarket shopping mall design should be adopted where appropriate.
(8) Wet and Dirty Floors—the common passageways of our markets are often wet and dirty. This is due to poor drainage, inadequate floor gradient, small floor tiles and uneven slope surfaces. To resolve the problem, the drain and floor slope design should be improved, e.g., separate drainage for each floor, drainage channels
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HONG KONG URBAN COUNCIL
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(4) Front entrance the main entrance of our markets is on average 7 m wide. and the side entrance is about 3-5 m wide. The entrances should be enlarged as opening the frontage of the markets would enable immediate and easy viability from outside.
In addition, an open design should be adopted, with curtain walls. prominent signage and display windows, so that the market interior can be seen clearly by market-goers.
(5) Competitions outside Markets-illegal hawkers trading near the markets and often around the entrance not only obstruct the common passageway and hence access to the stalls, but also pose competition to the market stall operators and affect their business. From the control point of view, we should step up enforcement action and strengthen the manpower necessary to carry out such tasks effectively. Itinerant hawker licenses should be cancelled to reduce the chance of the licence holders helping or protecting the illegal hawkers during hawker raids.
The problem should also be tacked at source. The public patronise illegal hawkers often because access to market stalls is difficult and inconvenient. Therefore, we should examine ways and means of providing easy access, including opening up the routes surrounding our markets to motor traffic, providing parking facilities, etc, so that hawkers cannot trade in the middle of the road. In the case of the new Causeway Bay Market at Mercury Street, where the street was previously occupied by fixed pitch stalls, the condition is now much improved following repair of the roads by the Highways Department.
Besides illegal hawkers, fresh provision shops near the markets also pose keen competition to the market stalls. Therefore, easy and convenient access to the stalls is all the more important.
(6) Prominent Signage-signboards on the exterior of market buildings should be prominent and clearly visible. More conspicuous, innovative and pictorial signboards should be displayed at strategic positions near the entrance. There should also be distinct signage on the ground floor and on the side walls of stalls to attract people into the markets and guide people into the suitable stalls.
(7) Poor and Gloomy Lighting-illumination of markets should be improved, adopting where possible non-heat generating form of illumination. Better illumination of markets will give a brighter look and create a more comfortable and appealing environment. To make the markets more transparent and more visible from outside, a supermarket shopping mall design should be adopted where appropriate.
(8) Wet and Dirty Floors-the common passageways of our markets are often wet and dirty. This is due to poor drainage, inadequate floor gradient, small floor tiles and uneven slop surfaces. To resolve the problem, the drain and floor slope design should be improved, e.g. separate drainage for each floor, drainage channels
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