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Annex B
Quotation from Relevant Sources on Proposals To Reshape Bus and Other Public Transport With The Introduction of The Mass Transit Railway
"Hong Kong Mass Transport Study" Freeman Fox, Wilbur Smith and Associates 1967 Pages 76 and 77. Paragraphs 20 - 32
"20.
The surface and rapid-transit systems should be
complementary rather than competitive, each serving the
type of travel it is best suited to accommodate, and
producing together an effective and efficient transport
system.
The rapid-transit lines, with their high capacity,
will serve the heavily concentrated movements which cannot
be efficiently handled by surface vehicles sharing
congested roads with other vehicles and foot traffic.
Conversely, the surface transport system will serve the
lighter and more diverse movements for which rapid transit
is not adaptable.
21.
Distribution by Modes The surface transport
system, while increasing its total patronage, will undergo
considerable change in the distribution of traffic among
the different modes and companies. The change will come
about first from causes not directly associated with the
rapid-transit system. Later there will be changes in
travel patterns induced by the successive opening of the
rapid-transit lines as well as changes due to development
trends.
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