Observing Road use at Cheung Sha Wan Road and Kwelin Street

Yuk Sze Ng
HealthyStreetLab@ShamShuiPo
3 min readApr 11, 2018

Observer: Yuki
Observation Date: 5 Apr 2018
Observation Time: 4pm-6:30pm
Cheung Sha Wan Road

Different objects are put on the street — stock for flea market, recycle paper box, trolley, etc. Objects are usually put next to railings so that a chain can be applied to lock them there.
Some objects are not put near railings, but there are usually people/hawkers around to take care of the stuff.
Platform in front of stores are used as a display table
Exit of MTR station are always full of objects. People occupy the space for commercial activities
A lot of advertisements seen near MTR station
Alleys are full of objects — usually stock for flea market

Kwelin Street

There is a old-fashion barber store in the alley and people eating at the alley
Seats on street are fully occupied
Lots of people like to smoke at the corner of the pedestrian zone as the road is board and there has no car
Street stalls are occupied by hawkers after they closes at around 6:30pm
Although crossing is 5m away, people tend to jaywalk here to go to the wet market
Cars turning left have to drive very slowly to avoid the crowd
Store arrangement greatly affects use of street

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