A Hong Kong power firm has apologised and rectified a road marking error after a contractor wrote the incorrect Chinese characters for Kennedy Town on a major thoroughfare.
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HK Electric said on Friday the mistake was made by its contractor, who had put up temporary road markings on the ground after carrying out electrical improvement works at Connaught Road West.
“[We] immediately instructed the contractor to make corrections and reminded the engineering staff and contractors to pay careful attention to the details of the project to prevent similar incidents from happening,” a spokesman said, adding the road signs had been fixed at 10am on Friday.
“HK Electric would like to apologise for any inconvenience caused by this incident.”
The incident came to light a day ago in an online post that went viral.
A widely-circulated picture showed the first out of the four characters for the name Kennedy Town in Chinese was written in simplified form, while the second mistakenly used the word for “mud”.
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“Since when has Hong Kong had a place called ‘Kenmuddy Town’? [The first Chinese character] was written in simplified Chinese, and [the second character] was wrongly written,” internet user ives_ccy said on social media.