Letters | Hong Kong police failing consistency test on parking tickets
- Officers appear quick to slap penalties on drivers in the remote New Territories countryside, while routinely ignoring motorists flouting the law in urban areas like Central
It is impossible to walk our dog along the service road in our village as, for the entire 1.5-kilometre length, there are cars and commercial vehicles parked on the footpath. Despite being a constant danger to pedestrians, these selfish motorists are never ticketed.
We parked in a kerbed lay-by where commercial vehicles or private cars are often parked overnight, and where we’ve often parked for the same purpose for more than 20 years. This, I should point out, is the absolute definition of the middle of nowhere.
We returned to our car at 8.30am and, to our total amazement, we found a parking ticket under the windscreen wiper.
In all the years of walking in this area, we have only ever seen police officers undergoing fitness training as they run around the Ng Tung River, and when they have several vans “parked” at intervals around the route.