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become a mirage.

Sir,

I think that in building

roads, private consortia

participation should be enlisted, and good examples include

West the Route X, the trunk-road from New Territories Daet to Tsing

Yi and West Kowloon; as well as possible Western Harbour

Crossing. This will not only serve to reduce the burden on

Government, but also enable Government to spend more on

traffic management, staffing, and also in computerisation programme on

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traffic flow.

I'm sure

traffic management can be accepted by the people of

second Hong Kong, but not when their own cars are involved The CTS

from amsultation

will take the form of a Green

Green Paper Population is gradually moving to the Northern part of the New Territories,

but the service sector jobs and import/export, transport,

the Peninsula, and on the northern part of

Kowloon

concentrates in the per

Hong Kong Island. It is inevitable that there should be some

restrictions on the number of vehicles.

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be a green

green paper

paper for consultation.

An increase in

I have often thought that devising traffic strategies is a

implementatrategies very rational sort of work, but it's becomes increasingly

idea political. So, I think it is a good thing that there should

And let the people decide

on the sort of strategy that we should adopt. And, in the

process, I think Government should spend more time in

explaining what it means by restricting different kinds. of

vehicles in using roads.

Sales-Tax. [Mr, Piers Jacobs has invited opinions on this. My

shift initial reaction is that this would me the tax burden on to

those with a lower income and

and it does not seem to be in lind

the out

In his budgets

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for 1978/79 and 1980/81, Sir Philip Haddon-Cave said that the

taxation system should follow six principles.

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