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PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION
For WRITTEN ANSWER on
November. 5th 1986
Head of HKD
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to Parliamentary Unit
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TEXT OF QUESTION :
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210 Mr Robert Parry (Liverpool, Riverside): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what plans the Hong Kong Government has for extending the mass transit railway to the satellite towns in the New Territories of Sha Tin, Tuen Mun, Tai Po and Yuen Long; and if he will make a statement.
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to MRS RENTON
(Minister)
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POS REPLY(S)
for answer by
MR. RENTON
(Minister)
ANSWER
There are no plans at
present to extend the mass
However, Sha Tin and Tai Po
transit railway to Sha Tin.
new towns are at present served by the Kowloon Canton
Railway, which provides a full, electric service.
A light rail transit system is
being
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constructed by the Kowloon Canton Railway Corporation to
serve Tuen Mun and Yuen Long in the Western New
Territories, and will
will be operational in the latter half
of 1988. Both the Kowloon Canton Railway Corporation and
the Mass Transit Railway Corporation are investigating
the possibility of constructing a rail link to join the
Tuen Mun-Yuen Long light rail
rail system with the existing
mass transit railway terminal at Tsuen Wan, thereby
providing a direct rail link with the urban area.
Clerk
authorised
Coltum...
(Head of Dept)