After it seemed like the Hong Kong government was going to ignore the issue of worsening taxi services forever, the police have finally started doing something.
Last week the police arrested two taxi drivers, aged 34 and 49, for overcharging tourists in Lan Kwai Fong, according to EJ Insight. Justice at last?
The men were released on bail and the operation is continuing, with police drivers posing as tourists hailing cabs, issuing penalty tickets and arresting drivers.
From January through August, the police received 469 complaints about taxi drivers, with most of them involving Lan Kwai Fong, probably because the combination of unbridled bacchanalia and clueless tourists prove to be irresistible to the unscrupulous.
The complaints were mostly about overcharging, refusing to take passengers, and for hiking up the fare by taking an indirect route.
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