By Eric Heimark, Helena Lalogianni, Mike Kilburn, Christine Loh

This policy paper prepared by Civic Exchange urges the HKSAR Government to tell the public that the cost of upgrading Hong Kong’s old and highly polluting franchised bus can be shared among the bus operators, the public purse and bus riders. The Hong Kong non-profit think tank believes the government has wrongly given the public the impression that bus riders must bear the entire cost of upgrading the fleet.