Originally Posted by christep

I do understand this because I am often walking home along Wyndham St late in the evening. As far as I can tell the problem is limited to late at night in a rather specific area within about 300m of Lan Kwai Fong (perhaps similar in a small area of TST). There is also a known problem with drivers picking up at the lower Peak Tram terminus. But in both cases, all you have to do is walk for a few minutes and you will find taxis operating as normal. For LKF there is an unofficial taxi rank outside the Fringe Club where people line up to take taxis playing by the rules, and there are generally enough coming by that you don't have to wait long (I was waiting maybe 2 minutes on a Saturday night at 2am recently, for example).

And there has been enforcement action - several taxi drivers have been caught in police plain clothes operations and been up in court.
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/...ing-undercover
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/...-under-polices (from 2014)
And legislators are pushing for more action: https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/...sport-minister