The officials will have to think very carefully before allowing cars from Guangdong and Macau into Hong Kong's crowded urban streets, Transport Minister Lam Sai-hung said on Monday (Nov. 6).
From early next year, people from the two regions will be able to drive into the SAR, but will have to park their vehicles at the end of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau bridge.
In the same way that the northbound part of the scheme allows HK vehicles to travel anywhere within Guangdong, a second phase of the scheme was designed to enable drivers to drive their vehicles straight into the city.
But Lam told an RTHK program that officials need to carefully consider whether the second phase is plausible.
"HK's really small. And we all know our tourist areas in Tsim Sha Tsui, or both sides of Victoria Harbour, parking there is really an issue," Lam said.
"So we have to consider in detail what the arrangements are for cars coming from the mainland and Macau, whether limitations are necessary or something like that. We have to also look at HK's actual situation," he added.
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