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protecting
for pedestrians.
Will Government inform this Council
whether at places where there are many pedestrians there
should be two requirements, (1) that there should be a flat
cover for the pedestrians to walk on during excavation, and
during non-office hours there is also a channel for making
complaints for non-compliance?
SECRETARY FOR LANDS AND WORKS: Sir, I
can
confirm that the Code of Practice for the Lighting, Signing
and Guarding of Road Works
is
one
which would be less general than that which Mr. CHAN may think, that is
it may in certain circumstances prescribe a flat panelling for
walking over but in other circumstances it may prescribe
other methods. I doubt whether his idea of having a place
for complaints would be very cost-effective in itself because
it would mean a great deal of such places and, in effect,
unless the machinery was there to immediately act on those
complaints actually on the spot, very little more would be
achieved by having a place for receipt of complaints. In
effect, the numbers of complaints made about these road works
are not so great as he might have thought.