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No action taken against tycoons

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Government must act on curbing illegal parking. Photo: Felix Wong
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I work in Wan Chai near the Fook Lam Moon "tycoon's canteen" restaurant.

The two, sometimes three, traffic wardens outside the restaurant do a good job to keep that 50-metre stretch of road clear, but they refuse to address the greater problem of the tycoon-movers who park illegally anywhere and everywhere beyond the sight of traffic wardens and thus still block all the through traffic.

When I have stopped passing foot patrol policemen to book illegally parked tycoon-mover cars which are blocking traffic - at least those stopped on double yellow lines - they have flatly refused to get involved. "Not our job" they say. "That's the job of the traffic wardens and the traffic police."

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I also see that every day Hennessy Road eastbound is reduced to from three to one lane by double parking around Wan Chai MTR station because the kerbside lane is fully occupied by illegally parked private cars and promotional vans, forcing China Travel Service coaches, minibuses and taxis to stop in the middle lane.

When I recently asked a passing foot patrol policeman why he didn't take any action, he replied: "We only do something when the traffic conditions require so," after which he did precisely nothing.

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Not a single illegally parked car was moved on, let alone booked for "parking in a non-authorised place".

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