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