Appendices ❘ 483

Table 34

(Chapter 13: Transport)

(a) Motor Vehicles Licensed by Type

Type

Private cars

Motor cycles (including motor tricycles)

Taxis

Thousands

2002

2006

2007

341

360

372

28

36

37

18

18

18

Buses, public and private

13

13

13

Light buses, public and private

6

6

6

Goods vehicles

111

112

111

Special purpose vehicles

1

1

1

Government vehicles (excluding military vehicles)

7

6

6

Total

526

553

565

(b) Public Transport: Average Daily Number of Passenger Journeys

by Different Modes of Transport

Franchised bus

Light Rail Transit Feeder Bus

Mass Transit Railway (MTR)(1)(2)

Red Minibus and Green Minibus

Taxi

Kowloon-Canton Railway (KCRC)(2)(3)

Hongkong Tramways and Peak Tramways

Light Rail

Ferry

Residents' Services

Total (4)

2002

4 327

Thousands

2006

2007

70

3 943

82

2 401

3 964

89

2 560

2 153

1 655

1 800

1 816#

979

1 067

1 103#

812

1 120

1 152

249

242

238

314

374

372

151

154

148

170

181

181#

10 879

11 365

11 528#

Notes: (1) The operations of the MTR and KCRC were merged on 2 December 2007. Previously Octopus users making railway interchanges at Kowloon Tong, Mei Foo, Nam Cheong, Tsim Sha Tsui and East Tsim Sha Tsui stations, were counted separately in MTR and KCRC passenger journeys. However, these passengers will be counted once in MTR passenger journeys after the merger. Hence, the figures after the merger are not strictly comparable with those of earlier figures.

(2) Passenger journeys of East Rail, West Rail and Ma On Shan were counted under KCRC before 2

December 2007 but were counted under MTR thereafter.

(3) In 2007, the average daily numbers of passenger journeys for individual modes of transport do not

add up to total because figure for KCRC refers to the average of the first 335 days in 2007.

(4) Figures may not add up to total due to rounding.

Source: Transport Department.

(Enquiry Telephone No.: 2294 2580)

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