Look at Kwun Tong this weekend and the container port up the road in Kwai Chung, and you'll find the same trolley bags everywhere: people wheeling empty ones in, full ones out. That's the parallel-import crowd, but forget them for a second. The bigger story is Pak Shek Kok, where the government just did a U-turn nobody asked for an explanation on, and then, three days later, magically found the money to fast-track a rail station for the same site.

Here's the sequence. Officials scrapped a public housing plan for Pak Shek Kok, said the flats didn't make sense there anymore. Ordinary flip-flop, HK does this all the time. Except then the same government turns around and announces it's speeding up a rail station for that exact patch of land. So somebody decided the location is good enough to build a train stop, just not good enough to build homes on. That's not indecision, that's a choice, and nobody at the briefing wants to say who the winner is once the flats disappear and the station shows up anyway.