‘Hell car parks’: mainland Chinese drivers hit bumps navigating Hong Kong roads
Southbound travel scheme driver fined for illegal parking, while another investigated for tinted windows
A mainland Chinese motorist travelling to Hong Kong under the southbound drivers scheme was fined for illegally parking this week, while another faces accusations of using tinted windows.
The force said on Saturday that it was following up on the second case in response to a complaint about a social media post, with the driver in question accused of not adhering to the city’s requirements for windscreens to have a “transparency that would not obscure the view of the interior”.
Hong Kong regulations stipulate that the light transmission rate must be more than 75 per cent for windscreen glass and over 70 per cent for other passenger windows, including the rear windscreen.
Police added that they had also issued a fixed penalty notice to one of the cars taking part in the scheme as it was illegally parked in Mong Kok on the first day of the scheme, which started on Tuesday.
Mainland Chinese drivers hit bumps navigating Hong Kong roads
A driver taking part in the scheme posted a photo of the illegal parking ticket issued in Hong Kong on mainland social media platform RedNote three days ago, with a caption saying that he or she was willing to pay for parking but had struggled to find any spaces.