Appendix 32
(Chapter 11: 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
Private cars
Private buses
Private light buses
Goods vehicles
Crown vehicles (excluding vehicles of HM Forces)
Motor cycles
Other motor vehicles
Total
Tramcars
Hongkong Tramways Limited
Tramcars
Trailers
Peak Tramways Company
Tramcars
Total
1981
As at end of year 1982
1 028 2.390
59
2 019
305
1983
1 058 2.378
60 2115
4 350
1 089 2.392
57
2 177 4.350 14 421
25 685
200 923 231
1 724
69 057
1 184 4 513
327 803
4 350
11 061
12 756
27 438
27 434
5
3
211 556
214 849
224
248
924
1 330
64 214
67 606
1 067
1 206
3 974
4 174
330 309
339 567
163
20
3
186
Public Transport: Passengers Carried by Undertaking
Kowloon Motor Bus Company
China Motor Bus Company
Mass Transit Railway Corporation
Hongkong Tramways Limited
'Star Ferry Company
Hongkong and Yaumati Ferry Company
Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation
Peak Tramways Company
New Lantao Bus Company
Ocean Park Cable Car
Total
163
3
166
163
3
166
Thousand journeys
1981
1982
1983
933 025
940 396
981 823
287 461
311 909
348 084
222 914
351 082
411 955
160 442
143 371
131 093
126 557
114 765
100 132
41 359
38 113
37 406
17 123
22 215
48 110
2 097
1 765
1 744
3 140
3 370
3 153
1 169
1 058
954
1 795 287
1 928 044
2 064 454
Public Transport: Passengers Carried by Area
Hong Kong Island
1982 401 113
Thousand journeys
1983
Kowloon
Cross Harbour
Ferry
Tunnels
New Territories
Urban Rural
Total
1981
396 799
417 234
657 237
736 933
800 592
141 826
127 160
115 902
211 353
247 192
268 268
220 704
167 368
247 079 168 567
250 809 211 649
1 795 287
1 928 044
2 064 454
Public Transport: Daily Average Number of Passengers Carried by Different Modes of Transport
1981
Bus
3.353
1982 3.439
Thousand journeys 1983
3 653
Public light bus*
1 459
1 460
1 422
Taxi*
905
1 018
1 099
Ferry
476
435
376
Tram and Cable Car
448
401
367
Railway+
658
1 023
1 261
Total
Note:
7 299
7 776
8 178
* Estimate.
Includes Mass Transit Railway.