HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE
12 July 1989 香港立法局————————————一九八九年七月十二日
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2. The Yuen Long/Tsuen Wan Rail Link should receive priority consideration. The Green Paper rightly pointed out that northwest New Territories will become a major population area in the years to come.
3. The Kowloon-Canton Railway has served well the north eastern part of the New Territories and part of Kowloon. In fact, its services can be considered as a "metro" type transport. Unfortunately, the KCR is constrained by freight services and cross border passenger services which inhibit more frequent and better services for commuters. In the long term, we must consider a separate line for freight and cross border passenger travel for the railway.
4. In terms of freight, we note from the Green Paper that in 1986 goods vehicles constituted 42% of road traffic and it is estimated that goods vehicles will constitute 51% of road traffic by the year 2001. This is an inordinate proportion of road usage by goods vehicles. Therefore, more freight should be transported by rail, taking pressures off the road. In this regard, it is not apparent in the Green Paper what proposals Government has towards improving freight transport on the rail system.
In a recent land requirement assessment by the Housing Authority, we know that by the year 1995 there will be deficiency in public housing production because of land shortage; and in the year 1996 to 1997 that shortage will be most acute, and will jeopardize the timely completion of the Long Term Housing Strategy.
Potential areas for public housing are the third phase of Junk Bay, the second phase on Tin Shui Wai and Ma On Shan, all of which received only passing references in the Green Paper and provided little in terms of actual transport provisions.
Time does not allow me to deal in depth nor go into many other aspects of the Green Paper, but I hope that my remarks will serve to stimulate the examination of our future land planning, while we are considering the implications of the transport strategy.
With these remarks, Sir, I support the motion.
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