Go back to original Kai Tak plans to fix cruise terminal transport fiasco
“If a picture paints a thousand words…”, wrote David Gates of the pop group Bread in 1971. Unsurprisingly, it was a hit for the band.
Such powerful imagery explains why most languages have a similar expression and concept: words, spoken or written, do not have the same impact.
That is why the recent images of well-heeled tourists queuing outside the Kai Tak Cruise Terminal waiting for a taxi sparked such a strong reaction. Within days, the government had convened an urgent, high-level meeting to establish what went wrong and what could be done about it.
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