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that traffic on the railway will reach its maximum due to
developments in Sha Tin and then drop back to about its
present level upon completion of the recommended rapid-
transit system.
28.
Rapid transit will not affect the patronage of
the Peak Tramway, the ferry routes to the outer islands
or the bus lines serving the New Territories beyond Tsuen
Wan and Sha Tin. In general, public transport travel
will continue to grow at about the same rate as in past
years but there will be changes in routing and in the
proportion of trips on the various modes.
29.
Future Operations of Surface Transport It is
of vital importance to the future of all public transport
in Hong Kong that improvement and expansion of existing
services continue uninterrupted in the period up to the
opening of the first rapid-transit line and in the period
of transition thereafter. Because of the diverse
interests of the existing operators and the varying effects
of the rapid transit on their activities, a reasonable and
definitive programme for both interim and long-range
operations must be worked out to ensure orderly development
and improvement of the whole transport system.
In a
rapidly expanding economy such as Hong Kong's, public
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