Taxi driver arrested for demanding HK$85 ‘highway toll’ from undercover officers

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Hong Kong police have arrested a 31-year-old cabby who demanded a “highway toll” of about HK$85 (US$11) from officers posing as passengers during a crackdown on taxi violations.The force said on Tuesday that officers conducted an operation to crack down on taxi violations on Lantau Island the previous day.Officers posing as passengers took a taxi from Hong Kong Disneyland Resort to the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge checkpoint. When they arrived, the driver demanded about HK$85 as a “highway...