capacity of
original designed 60,000 passengers.
75,000
then been revised to
人
16
It has since
as the tolerable level, so I should
perhaps have said 60,000 was the original capacity and
.75,000 was the revised capacity.
As regards the question of passing on the problem
to
other
transport
modes, this is precisely
what the corporation does not want to do. It has applied
this congestion fare only for a period of 45 minutes in
the morning and has provided
am
enough
trains in the
early hours from 7.40 onwards to give the passengers a full
choice to still use the MTR and not the buses, which
means a longer
and
more
tortuous journey.
So the MTRC, in fact, has taken the full responsibility in
trying to
attract
passengers to use the early morning
trains and not use the congestion hour trains, and it does
have the capacity to cope with such early risers.
MRS. CHOW: Sir, may I have your tolerance to go back to
Mr. SOHMEN's suggestion, which I think is a very worthwhile
one and I think the Secretary has actually over-estimated
the size of the carrot being proposed by Mr. SOHMEN because
has been suggested by many Members on the Transport
Panel and in our Council, in fact the carrot is no bigger
as