HONG KONG
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL 香港立法局 —————————一九八八年十一月二日
2 November 1988
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improvement of this kind in the crowded urban areas, although even now in major reconstructions of busy inter-sections Highways Department sometimes can and does construct ducts which can carry at least some of the utilities. On the new Central and Wanchai reclamation, moreover the consultants have been specifically asked to plan the construction of roads so as to minimize the problems from utilities' excavations The metroplan will also devote particular attention to utilities in urban replanning schemes from which some graded improvement may eventually be expected.
Sir, I am very conscious that this is something of a defensive answer to a question concerning a matter which accumulatively has a very unfavorable impact on the public, but consistent with being reasonably expeditious (whatever some may say) about permitting utility connections and replacements and repairs, I see no way in which we can presently do very much more to reduce traffic disruption and public inconvenience.
MR. HUI: In modern cities like Tokyo, road repair works are carried out at night time when traffic was light and all dug up areas would be covered for day time use. Could Government inform this Council if it could follow the obviously better way of road repair practised in Japan and if not, why not?
SECRETARY FOR LANDS AND WORKS: Sir, we do indeed do some road surfacing and repairs at night time and this has been very successful in reducing disruption. As far as I know this system has not been used for utility repairs and excavations and I cannot see problems but I will certainly have it looked at.
鄭德健議員問:我想追問的問題有兩部分,一是有統籌的工作,地政工務司在本年一月十三日立 法局會議席上亦指出有關機構在處理工作上感到滿意,但經過一年後,情況仍無改善,我們看到 本港很多街道被掘起,如九龍聯合道近廣播道交界一段交通樞紐,路面被堀超過一年,但還未將 路面鋪好,我覺得目前政府仍欠缺一套有效的掘路工程方法,政府應否找出問題的癥結呢?二是 政府可否進一步認真考慮在一些繁忙的交通要道上,幫其進行長期的掘路工程,在行車的路面下
興建一條維修的隧道。
SECRETARY FOR LANDS AND WORKS: Sir, Mr. CHENG has asked whether Government can in fact improve its performance and suggests that the present situation is deteriorating. I know of no reason why the present situation should be deteriorating beyond the fact that certain repairs are certainly taking a bit longer as a result of shortages of labour by the term contractor who has to reinstate the road after the excavation and completion of repairs of utilities. In my answer, I said that I saw no very immediate chance of improvement and I would not like to make an optimistic remark in this Council at this stage. It has