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22 APR 1987

Supplementary to Question No.1.

In LegCo Meeting on 8.4.87

Mr. LEE Yu-tai : Sir,

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Sir, following the decision to scrap ERP does

the Adminstration have any alternative plan to resolve the

problem of traffic congestion?

Secretary for Transport : sir, we are looking into the

possibility of auto-toll collection systems elsewhere and staff

have been sent overseas now to do a study. We hope to see the

results in about a few months time.

Mr. LI: Sir, how much time and resource in money terms has been

spent on this study and what proportion can be salvaged and

wasted; and what lessons has

what

proportion

has been

Government learnt from this expensive exercise?

Secretary for Transport : Sir, the pilot scheme was approved in

March 1983. The total cost of the project was $36.5 million.

The cost of equipment was about $6 million of which about half

can be used for other purposes.

As regards the manpower spent on this, the consultants

have done very comprehensive studies and these plans can be

used by the second Comprehensive Transport Study Team which is

now under way and we hope to see the results by the middle of

next year. So in overall terms, the efforts are not entirely

can be used for the second

wasted and the results

study next year.

second transport

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