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Environmentally Friendly Noise Measures

Some existing roads are close to dwellings and are causing noise disturbances to nearby residents at night. However, retrofitting noise barriers/enclosures or provision of low noise road surfaces on existing roads may not be practicable. Therefore, non-engineering solutions such as traffic management and pedestrian schemes have been explored to reduce traffic noise to nearby residents.

Traffic Management Scheme

A traffic management scheme is being implemented in 3 areas to ban certain types of vehicles from using some streets at night to reduce traffic noise. In addition a pilot scheme in 2000 at West Kowloon Corridor was able to reduce the noise level by 2 dB(A).

Pedestrian Scheme

Apart from the traffic management scheme, pedestrianisation would also reduce traffic noise affecting residents. Pedestrianisation is being implemented at Mong Kok and Causeway Bay. Other pedestrian streets are being planned. The figure on the left shows pedestrianisation of streets in Mong Kok and Causeway Bay areas.

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