The Transport Department will install cross-harbour journey time indicators at seven locations in Eastern District and Kowloon by mid-year, and erect variable-message signs on Tuen Mun Road, Tolo Highway and Fanling Highway by 2014.

It also plans to build speed-map panels at five locations in the New Territories to show traffic conditions ahead with graphic images. The works are scheduled for completion in early 2012.

Secretary for Transport & Housing Eva Cheng told lawmakers today the department will install variable message signs on Wong Chuk Hang Road this year and the Central-Wan Chai Bypass.

The four variable message signs now installed on Hong Kong Island, together with the 21 closed-circuit television cameras capturing images for display at the department's Snapshots of Traffic Conditions website, are providing the public with real-time road traffic information of the Hong Kong Island.

"To increase the number of real-time traffic images available to the public and avoid service disruption due to incident management, the [department] has secured funds for installing 31 separate CCTV cameras dedicated for providing traffic images for the snapshot website.

"The installation works are scheduled for completion in the latter half of 2010. By then, the 31 dedicated cameras will replace the 21 cameras now also used for incident management for disseminating information to the public."