{"id":8870,"date":"2021-01-15T11:11:26","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T11:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/transport\/article\/3117942\/lawmakers-slam-hong-kongs-mtr-corporation-repeated-delays"},"modified":"2021-01-15T11:11:26","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T11:11:26","slug":"lawmakers-slam-hong-kongs-mtr-corporation-for-repeated-delays-to-sha-tin-central-link-unacceptable-evasiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/15\/lawmakers-slam-hong-kongs-mtr-corporation-for-repeated-delays-to-sha-tin-central-link-unacceptable-evasiveness\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawmakers slam Hong Kong\u2019s MTR Corporation for repeated delays to Sha Tin-Central link, \u2018unacceptable\u2019 evasiveness"},"content":{"rendered":"Lawmakers on Friday took the MTR Corporation to task for its handling of the long-delayed Sha Tin-Central link, Hong Kong\u2019s costliest railway project ever, scoffing at the operator\u2019s projected completion dates and saying they were \u201cdisappointed\u201d in what they characterised as its lack of candour.In a Legislative Council subcommittee meeting on railway matters on Friday, lawmakers accused the rail giant of dodging questions about the full opening of the problem-plagued Sha Tin-Central link, which\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/transport\/article\/3117942\/lawmakers-slam-hong-kongs-mtr-corporation-repeated-delays\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers on Friday took the MTR Corporation to task for its handling of the long-delayed Sha Tin-Central link, Hong Kong\u2019s costliest railway project ever, scoffing at the operator\u2019s projected completion dates and saying they were \u201cdisappointed\u201d in wha&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8870"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8870"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8949,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8870\/revisions\/8949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}