Car Free day

Last Monday was Car-free day, the government openly upheld the activity and those high-rank officials had taken substantial action to brace for the environmental-friendly event. The Chief Executive went to office on foot and Micheal Suen rode bus on the Monday's morning. For our Chief Secretary for Administration Henry Tang, he had opted to take a taxi and leniently shared the cab with Secretary of Justice Wing Yan Lung.

Our Chief Secretary for Administration may think that there's a big different between a taxi and a private car, but i guess most of the citizen gets dissappointed with his choice. The citizen is appealed to dispense with private car and advocated to commute with public transports in Car-Free day. Maybe you will think taxi is also a public transport, but indeed the idea behind Car-Free day is to lessen the emission by reducing the use of private car, i believe that a taxi is identical with a private car in the view of emission of pollutant. So if you rides taxi, basically you have done nothing for the event. In fact, such one-day-event do not pose a very obvious improvement in scientific way, but the most crucial is the symbolical effect to make citizen more vigilant to the environmental affair. The prominent officials should act concretely as a model to appeal the people to diligently concern our living ambience, but not turn to cosmetic way.

The issue is likely to make people think some of the high-rank officials' snub of environmental affair and are politically insensitive. I doubt those rich folks' ability to oversee our city.