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[Fugitives Regulations] Demonstration conflict traffic lights, electric boxes repeatedly destroyed Mong Kok electric boxes installed iron cages

2019-12-12T16:23:20.425Z


Controversy over the revision of the Fugitive Offenders Regulations has resulted in successive demonstration conflicts in multiple districts. Traffic lights, electrical boxes and other facilities have become the target of demonstrators' destruction. Recently, an electrical box was enclosed by an iron cage in Mong Kok. Hong Kong 01 was inquiring about the arrangements with the Transport Department.


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Written by: Lu Jiayu, Lin Zhenhua

2019-12-12 23:57

Last updated: 2019-12-12 23:57

Controversy over the revision of the Fugitive Offenders Regulations has resulted in successive demonstration conflicts in multiple districts. Traffic lights, electrical boxes and other facilities have become the target of demonstrators' destruction. Recently, an electrical box was enclosed by an iron cage in Mong Kok. Hong Kong 01 was inquiring about the arrangements with the Transport Department.

In the earlier demonstrations, many electric boxes on the sidewalks were destroyed. (Profile picture)

An electric box was recently installed in Argyle Street, Mong Kok. (Photo by Lin Zhenhua)

The reporter visited Mong Kok and found that an electric box has been installed with an iron cage on Argyle Street and Nathan Road near Wai Fung Centre, except that it is enclosed by an iron mesh on the four sides and the top, and the electric box is locked by screws below There is also a shutter on both sides of the iron crate and locked with a lock. In addition, an electrical box has been installed on Nathan Road and Jordan Road. However, the reporter found that there were still many electrical boxes that had been damaged or smeared earlier in Mong Kok. They were not repaired and iron was not installed. cage. Hong Kong 01 is inquiring about the arrangements with the Transport Department.

730 traffic lights were damaged

Earlier in the daily demonstrations in Mong Kok, demonstrators blocked roads with bricks, such as Nathan Road and Argyle Street, and damaged facilities such as traffic lights and electric boxes. The traffic signals failed, the electric boxes were pried open, burned, and garbage was put in. . The Secretary for Transport and Housing, Chen Fan, said on Wednesday (11th) that according to the Transport Department, since June, about 730 sets of traffic lights in various districts in Hong Kong have been damaged to varying degrees. There are still more than 30 sets of main road traffic. The lamp unit has not been repaired yet. The government needs to order related accessories from overseas to repair it. The last batch of accessories will arrive in Hong Kong in early January next year.

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Source: hk1

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