MTR staff ‘turning a selective blind eye’ to bulky goods on trains, says Hong Kong anti-parallel trading group
Hong Kong MTR staff have been accused by an anti-parallel trading group of turning a “selective blind eye” to bulky objects after a student carrying an oversized Chinese musical instrument was stopped from getting on a train.
On its Facebook page, the group Ma On Shan People, Ma On Shan Matters urged passengers to report to MTR staff when sighting commuters carrying objects exceeding the size permitted under train company rules.
This came after a woman student was prevented by MTR staff from boarding a train at Tai Wai Station on Tuesday because she was carrying a Chinese zither – a large stringed instrument – exceeding the permitted length of 130cm.
The group said the train operator had been “selectively blind” on bulky objects, with staff taking action against items that did not really cause a nuisance, such as the zither and a snooker cue in the past.
It said they however “turned a blind eye” to items “as large as a television set” carried by mainland Chinese tourists and parallel traders.
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