https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/transport/article/2181415/mtr-corp-faces-need-dismantle-entire-platform-scandal-hit

Hong Kong’s embattled rail operator is facing the need of having to dismantle at least one entire platform at its scandal-hit Hung Hom station after another six steel bars were found to be badly installed, further increasing substandard rates.

On Wednesday the Highways Department released its findings on the east-west platform for the Tai Wai-Hung Hom line of the link. The reinforcement bars were among 11 checked by the MTR Corporation in an ongoing probe into shoddy work on the city’s costliest rail project, the Sha Tin-Central Link.

The latest results brought the number of faulty steel bars detected to 23, out of 60 checked, with an overall substandard rate of 38 per cent. For the east-west platform alone, 22 of 52 bars were found to be defective so far – a substandard rate of 42 per cent.