{"id":168178,"date":"2026-05-13T17:43:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T09:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/?p=168178"},"modified":"2026-05-13T17:43:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T09:43:36","slug":"lawmakers-split-over-ride-hailing-permit-cap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/?p=168178","title":{"rendered":"Lawmakers split over ride-hailing permit cap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newsstatic.rthk.hk\/images\/mfile_1854380_1_M_20260512112618.jpg\" alt=\"news image\"><br \/>The chairman of the Legislative Council&#8217;s transport panel, Ben Chan, on Tuesday said the government should initially cap the number of ride-hailing permits to around 8,000 when it launches a new regulatory regime later this year. <\/p>\n<p>In a submission to Legco, the Transport and Logistics Bureau and the Transport Department said public opinion remains divided on how many ride-hailing vehicles should be allowed to operate in the city&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.rthk.hk\/rthk\/en\/component\/k2\/1854380-20260512.htm\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#38405;&#35835;&#26356;&#22810;&#65288;Read More&#65289;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chairman of the Legislative Council&#8217;s transpo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-localnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=168178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}