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Wednesday, March 15, 1972
HON. SIR Y.K, KAN URGES "THOROUGH-GOING RE-APPRAISAL"
OF GOVERNMENT TRANSPORT POLICIES
Sound Overall Policy Needed For The Future
The Hon. Sir Yuet-keung Kan today called on the Government to make a
"thorough-going re-appraisal of its piece-meal policies" on road transport and
to work out a "sound overall policy for the future."
Speaking in the resumed debate on the Budget in the Legislative Council,
the Senior Unofficial Member said the transport problem "vitally affects every
member of our population, as it does the people of any great city."
Sir Yuet-keung said that the Government, instead of facing up to the
road congestion problem in a satisfactory manner, was attempting to make the
commuter travelling by car the villain of the piece."
Government was still avoiding "coming to grips" with the transport
problem as a whole and working out a satisfactory overall policy.
Sir Yuet-keung said Government had placed itself in an "invidious
position" on the question of private motorists and parking by having two widely
divergent policies - one for the general public and one for civil servants.
Whatever Government decided to do about private motorists and parking,
he added, it should not have one policy for members of the general public and
an entirely different one for civil servants.
In his remarks on the transport problem, Sir Yuet-keung said: "And
the growth of this problem in the light of our rapidly expanding vehicular use
of our roads has been evident for a long time.
/"Yet today