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 providing low noise road surfaces on existing roads may not be practicable. Therefore, non-engineering solutions such as traffic management and pedestrian schemes, if found practicable, could be used to help to relief the traffic noise problem in the locality.
Traffic Management Scheme
A traffic management scheme is being implemented in four areas to ban certain types of vehicles from using some streets at night to reduce traffic noise.
| Name of Street | Class of Vehicle Affected |
Hours |
| Lai King Hill Road | Length exceeding 11m (except buses) | 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. [effective 1 June 1995] |
| Chuk Yau Road | Gross Vehicle Weight exceeding 23 tonnes | 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. [effective 18 March 1999] |
| Tsing Fung Street Flyover | Gross Vehicle Weight exceeding 5.5 tonnes (except franchised buses) | 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. [effective 14 January 2000] |
| Texaco Road Flyover | Franchised buses | Mid-night to 6 a.m. [effective 4 July 2005] |
