[:en]More parking for tour buses[:]

[:en]More than 100 additional public parking spaces for tour coaches will be ready by 2020, said Secretary for
Transport and Housing Frank Chan Fan.
Lawmaker Tony Tse Wai-chuen said the lack of public parking space for tour coaches has led to the prevalence
of illegal parking in tourist-heavy districts like Kowloon City and Tsim Sha Tsui.
In a written reply to Tse, Chan said the transport department has planned to provide additional parking spaces
in a year.
Chan stated that the principle of “single site, multiple uses” is used to accommodate more parking spaces in
suitable “government, institution or community” facilities, public open space projects and public housing
developments.
Tourism sector lawmaker Yiu Si-wing said 100 additional parking spaces will not be adequate to solve the current
shortage. Building parking lots specifically for tourist coaches will be a better fix in the long run, he said.
Yiu said opening up parking fields in rural areas with more accessible routes to the city will also help.
School buses may be parked inside schools’ covered playgrounds at night to ease the inadequate number of parking
spaces for commercial vehicles, he suggested: “However, it depends on whether or not the schools have that
availability. It can hardly be a generalized solution.”[:]