Repairs to Hong Kong's traffic damaged by protests cost HK$65m

HONG KONG, Jan 9, China Daily/ANN – About HK$65 million (US$8.35 million) of taxpayers' money is needed to repair traffic lights and pavements vandalized by anti-government radicals between June and December, the Transport and Housing Bureau said on Wednesday.

Responding to a query from the Legislative Council, the bureau confirmed repair work on 740 sets of vandalized traffic lights, costing HK$40 million, had been completed last Thursday. Of them, 365 sets of traffic lights had been damaged multiple times, with some becoming targets of the vandals as many as 17 times.