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Daft Instructor 3
1950s-70s
This set of photographs was taken in Nathan Road, Yau Ma Tei of Kowloon near Pak Hoi Street. At the time, the Gascoigne Road Flyover has yet to be built and there were spaces in the middle of Nathan Road for parking vehicles. Some had founded the crossing to be too distanced from the traffic lights, and had created this “shortcut” where pedestrians can cross the road using the gap between the railings and the lamp post. This practice was widely imitated. Because of the danger it posed, the government removed the central parking space and built railings to separate the different lanes and traffic lights, and later built today’s pedestrian flyover and tunnel-crossing to ensure pedestrians’ safety.

婦人愚昧好心腸　協肋越欄喜氣洋
雖謂無私唆鋌險　警員票控便遭殃