{"id":1291,"date":"2020-11-04T03:16:41","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T03:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bricksandmortarmgt.com\/?p=1291"},"modified":"2020-11-11T02:06:23","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T02:06:23","slug":"dire-new-penalties-for-taxi-substitutes-another-sign-of-brain-dead-transport-innovation-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bricksandmortarmgt.com\/zh_hk\/2020\/11\/dire-new-penalties-for-taxi-substitutes-another-sign-of-brain-dead-transport-innovation-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Dire new penalties for taxi substitutes \u2013 another sign of brain dead transport\/innovation policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Echoing <a href=\"https:\/\/hk.news.yahoo.com\/%E6%94%BF%E5%BA%9C%E4%BF%AE%E4%BE%8B%E5%9A%B4%E6%89%93%E7%99%BD%E7%89%8C-%E9%A6%96%E6%AC%A1%E5%AE%9A%E7%BD%AA%E5%8D%B3%E7%BD%B0%E8%90%AC%E5%85%83-221117770.html\">reports<\/a> that the HKSAR is proposing stiff penalties on non-franchised vehicles for private rental, it goes to show the government\u2019s propensity to protect vested interest groups whilst crushing any new innovative green shoots (e.g. online ride hailing businesses).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If the government can \u2018study\u2019 other countries in the severity of penalties, why can it not study harder how they are leaving HK in the dust in terms of embracing new technology that encourage competition, improve quality of service, and benefit drivers and riders alike (but to the disadvantage of the taxi licence holding rent seekers).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are the writer\u2019s previous commentaries on this topic:<br>HK Taxi: the twisted ecology <a href=\"http:\/\/yulun2012.blogspot.com\/2016\/12\/blog-post.html\">http:\/\/yulun2012.blogspot.com\/2016\/12\/blog-post.html<\/a><br>Industry officials follow carpool linger <a href=\"http:\/\/yulun2012.blogspot.com\/2018\/03\/blog-post.html\">http:\/\/yulun2012.blogspot.com\/2018\/03\/blog-post.html<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"ast-button\" href=\"https:\/\/bricksandmortarmgt.com\/zh_hk\/2020\/11\/dire-new-penalties-for-taxi-substitutes-another-sign-of-brain-dead-transport-innovation-policy\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dire new penalties for taxi substitutes \u2013 another sign of brain dead transport\/innovation policy<\/span> Read More \u00bb<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hong-kong"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bricksandmortarmgt.com\/zh_hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bricksandmortarmgt.com\/zh_hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bricksandmortarmgt.com\/zh_hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bricksandmortarmgt.com\/zh_hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bricksandmortarmgt.com\/zh_hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bricksandmortarmgt.com\/zh_hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1292,"href":"https:\/\/bricksandmortarmgt.com\/zh_hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291\/revisions\/1292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bricksandmortarmgt.com\/zh_hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bricksandmortarmgt.com\/zh_hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bricksandmortarmgt.com\/zh_hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}