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Transport

Shing Mun, Aberdeen, Lion Rock and Tseung Kwan O tunnels, the Eastern Harbour Crossing, the Lantau Link and the Sha Tin Heights-Eagle's Nest-Tai Wai tunnels.

Parking

Where there is demand and traffic conditions permit, on-street parking is provided to meet the short-term parking needs of motorists. At the year end, there were about 18,000 parking spaces with electronic parking meters installed and about 16,600 non-metered on-street parking

spaces.

The Transport Department owns 11 multistorey public car parks across the city and an open-air public car park for coaches at Wong Tai Sin Public Transport Terminus. These are run by two private operators under government contracts and provide about 5,500 public parking spaces.

In addition to government car parks, about 198,700 off-street public parking spaces are provided by the Airport Authority Hong Kong at the airport, the Housing Department and the Link Reit in some public housing estates, and the private sector in multistorey commercial/ residential buildings and open-air public car parks.

Park-and-ride facilities are operated by the MTRCL at Choi Hung Station on the Kwun Tong Line; Hong Kong, Kowloon and Tsing Yi stations on the Airport Express; Hung Hom Station on the East Rail Line; Kam Sheung Road and Tsuen Wan West stations on the West Rail Line; Ocean Park Station on the South Island Line and West Kowloon Station on the XRL, and by private operators at commercial car parks located near Olympic Station on the Tung Chung Line, Wu Kai Sha Station on the Ma On Shan Line, Tuen Mun Station on the West Rail Line and Hang Hau Station on the Tseung Kwan O Line. The government also provides a park-and-ride scheme at the public car park of Po Shek Wu Estate near Sheung Shui Station.

To help motorists find parking spaces, the parking vacancy information of about 340 government and non-government public car parks was available on the Transport Department's HKeMobility mobile application and Hong Kong eRouting website as at end- 2019. The data of some of these car parks is also available on the data.gov.hk portal. The government encourages more car park operators to release parking vacancy information.

Road Safety

There were 16,102 road traffic accidents involving injuries in 2019, of which 1,831 were serious. and 107 were fatal. The total number of fatal and serious road traffic accidents increased 8.3 per cent compared with 2018.

Pedestrian Transport

Walk in Hong Kong

To promote 'Walk in HK, the government encourages people to walk more under four themes: 'Make it smart, 'Make it connected, 'Make it enjoyable' and 'Make it safe! In 2019, the Transport Department continued to enhance pedestrian connectivity between Wan Chai and Sheung Wan; extended the walking route search function, including barrier-free routes, in the HKeMobility mobile application to Yau Tsim Mong; conducted stage 2 of a public engagement

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