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Clearly the
resources required for these
developments will be very large. At the same time we
shall have to meet continuing demands on public funds for
housing and urban renewal and for other substantial
It may be necessary to
than previously in
projects, such as new hospitals.
suitable
parts
of
our
economic
seek more private involvement
developing
infrastructure. All of this means that the control and
co-ordination of our massive development programme will
become even
even more important. We are looking urgently at the form of Governmental organisation required to carry
out this task.
48.
(a) Transport
In the meantime, the planning and execution of the various parts of our capital development programme
continue apace.
In recent decades a great deal of thought, planning and
planning and investment has been put into the
development of Hong Kong's transport
transport network. We now
have a public transport system which, in terms of variety
and flexibility, might well be the envy of many other large cities.
But
h
this is an area where one has to run in order to stand still : growth in the demand for
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never ceases.
For instance,
between 1982 and 1982 and
transport
1986, the
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