in the terms of the Better of Intent during this period.
Andam, by the terms of the Letter of Intent the Core avium cxplicitly undervcok to provide design ylusions and proposals that would adequately nect the Provisional Authority'a design and ponderance
In spite of constant requests from the Provisional Authority it was not until mid-November 1974, nine months after the signing of the Letter of Intent, that the Consortium produced a package of design solutions. Chie package, which the Censortium called a "Basic Plan", mod dhoroughly czanined by the Parvisional luthority's our sulting engineung, the Mass Gransit Department of the Public Works Department and the engineering officers designate of the future Mass Transit Railway Corporation. Chu desig, solutions and proposals proved to be Inadequado and incomplete compared with the Provisional Authority'e specificavions and, in some cases, unsuited
a tud oven irrelevant to Hong Kong's conditioris.
She Government is convinced that if Hong Kong's fuvure transport needs are to be not it must have a Hess Transit Railway›
The need for the MGR is essentially based on the ling duhani fer revenent from an expanding population which, even given the nest dreconian restraints on other then public trimisport, wuld produce unacceptable
parvien in the greater part of the urban area in the 80s GC. The expectation is that, even if all traffic sher than large buses are banned from the main routes in the nouns to be curved by the kailway (which would be an in panetionble rustraint), there would not be enough space
the busus to pick up and set down passengers and to
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