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Appendix 36
(Chapter 13: Communications and Transport)
Registered Motor Vehicles
Public service vehicles
Public buses
China Motor Bus Company Kowloon Motor Bus Company New Lantao Bus Company
Others
Public light buses
Taxis
Private vehicles
Motor cycles
Motor tricycles
848 1 867
58
1 609
1980
985 2.089
56
1 798
As at end of year
1979
1981
1 028 2.390
59 2019
4 350
4 350
4 350
8 762
9 856
11 061
23 289
25 536
27 438
7
7
5
162 762
190 146
211 556
222
226
224
964
ון
955
924
58 801
64 214
915 3 495
936 3.654
1 067
3 974
260 928
299 395
330 309
Private cars
Private buses
Private light buses
Goods vehicles
Crown vehicles (excluding vehicles of HM Forces) Motor cycles
51 780
Other motor vehicles
Total
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Tramcars
Hongkong Tramways Limited
Tramcars
Trailers
Peak Tramways Company
Tramcars
Total
163
163
163
20
20
20
3
3
3
186
186
186
Public Transport: Passengers Carried by Undertaking
Thousand journeys
1979
1980
1981
Kowloon Motor Bus Company
934 339
911 657
933 025
China Motor Bus Company
274 324
275 533
287 461
Mass Transit Railway Corporation
11 742
167 533
222 914
Hongkong Tramways Limited
150 935
159 183
158 992
Hongkong and Yaumati Ferry Company
142 415
131 994
126 557
Star Ferry Company
56 538
46 551
41 359
Kowloon-Canton Railway
18 353
19 341†
17 123
Peak Tramways Company
2 107
New Lantao Bus Company
Ocean Park Cable Car
Total
Note:
* The first stage of the Modified Initial System of the Mass Transit Railway between Kwun Tong and Shek Kip Mei operated from 1.10.79
and the full system operated from 12.2.80. Revised figures.
2 481
2 041 2.802
2 097
3 140
1 586
1 290
1 169
1 594 820
1 717 925+
1 793 837
Public Transport: Passengers Carried by Area
Thousand journeys
1979
1980
1981
Hong Kong Island
358 705
381 596
Kowloon
590 590
657 021
395 349 657 237
Cross Harbour
Ferry
Tunnels
New Territories
Urban Rural
Total
Note: Revised figures.
177 100
155 152
141 826
153 772
181 433
211 353
161 388
153 265
1 594 820
1 717 925+
174 321 168 402†
220 704 167 368
1 793 837