I've just mailed an objection letter re-re-reiterating the points of useless, expensive, and ugly. Really nothing new to add in content but just another opposition voice. We'll see...

I'm up for more drastic group action though. Would putting up bilingual notices help? The proper channels don't work that well.

The public enemy No. 1 is now collecting signatures from Filipinos and random passer-bys in the Main Street. It takes them a second - "just sign here" - but they don't even know what they are signing for and they have no chance to review the actual project of the parking.

This will enable the PE No. 1 to legalize her scheme by saying "look how many people actually support the bike parking platform".

What we need is to collect as much signatures as possible by providing a realistic view on the parking platform:
- price per parking space
- how much extra time will be spent each day on parking a bike and then walking from there
- how the platform will take over a huge part of the bay and spoil the sea view that you can enjoy while walking to the ferry

I've seen that somebody used to organize petition-signing by just hanging the signing book somewhere outside the ferry. This requires very little effort. Anyone?

Is it possible and legal to have a table outside next to the other table educating people about how bad of an idea this actually is?

let them collect signatures....who cares. They collected them before, and they are worth nothing because the bike park issue is misrepresented and the methodology used in the survey is rubbish.

Those who oppose the project are not against bike racks along the pier, for instance.
And those who are in favour of the project don't even know what alternative proposals were presented by Living Lamma (portrayed as "gwailos who don't want a bike park")

Only if people were asked to choose their preferred solution out of three (1. Yu Lai Fan's beloved concrete platform, 2. bike racks along the pier, 3. a long, landscaped parking area along the path leading to the pier, in place of the existing illegal structure) we would have a proper consultation.

I suggest that people who are concerned with this issue print out this letter and send it to the address shown there.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1143915/objection.doc

It costs just HK$1.40 to send, but the value is so much bigger.

Thanks Anton. I've mailed something of my own last week but have not received a response. I might email them to chase.

Maybe we should do an online signature petition for objection based on this letter. Or get people to sign and we mail for them. I'm happy to sponsor the stamps!

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I saw a banner objecting the CPA opposite the government's one at the proposed platform area. It was enacted by Land Justice HK (which Living Lamma is a member of after looking at the website). Good job!

Meanwhile, my objection letter to the Transport bureau has been forwarded to Home Affairs... blah blah blah. I emailed HAD today to add pressure.

Here's a photo of the banner .. and scans of the flyer stuck onto all bikes at the ferry pier today:

The photo on the banner shows the wrong size of the platform - it's less than half as long - and it doesn't show the connection of the platform to the Library. See the map on the flyer for the correct size and layout.

Deadline for comments: Tuesday, Mar 6!

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