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Plans for an MTR Island Line
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A Mass Transit Railway line, constructed largely under- ground and extending from Western Market to Chai Wan would be in operation by the end of 1986, with a, capacity o to carry about 1.4 million boardings a day. It should have or a patronage of about 1.2 million boardings in 1996. would compete with all other passenger transport modes, but it would have to be provided with bus and PLB feeder services. Moreover, as at present, the principle would be that, when competition from the MTR reduced the demand
for buses, they would be redeployed elsewhere to meet other needs; and, of course, in developing the proposal for an IslandLine (see paragraphs 25 et seq below), it has been assumed that this principle would be put into practice.
The implications of the plans described above, with a 1991
interpolation, are set out in Table 1 below:
Table 1: Planned Boardings by Public
Transport Mode 1980-1996
CAL
or biner
(Millions)
Mode
1980
1986 (pre -MTR)
.1986 (post-MTR)
1991
PL-1996
Bus
0.9
1.4
1. 1
Tram
014
0:5
014
1,27 0.5
1.5
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PLB
0.3
0.3
02
0.27
0.2
MTR
0.6
10
1,2
Total
1.6
2.2
2.3%
2.9
3.5
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* Post-MTR boardings exceed the pre-MTR total because the
Island Line is expected to generate additional demand.
@ It is assumed that by the early 1990s demand would have so built up that new rolling stock would have been introduced..
(6) The Proposal for an MTR Island Line
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A proposal has been developed, in co-operation with the MTRC, to construct an Island Line, running initially from Western Market to Chai Wan, with provision for an extension from Western Market to Kennedy Town. The eventual line is, in effect, Stages 5, 8 and 9 of the Full System of the MTR. The idea would be to complete the section from Admiralty Station to Tai Koo Shing by mid-1986 and from Western Market to Chai Wan by the end of that year. The further westward extension to Kennedy Town would be constructed as and when demand and financial prudence permitted so that, for the purposes of this memorandum, "the Island Line" refers to the railway from Western Market to Chai Wan. The underground section of the railway would mostly be built in bored tunnel with station concourses located in adjacent development sites, thus minimising disruption of the major thoroughfares during construction. A summary of the proposal is at Annex B.
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