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Wednesday, June 7, 1972
ROAD REPAIRS AVOIDED DURING PEAK HOURS
Authority Sought To Do Night Work
The Director of Public Works, the Hon. J.J. Robson, said today
it was the present arrangement to ensure that minor repairs to heavily
used roads were avoided, as far as practicable, during peak hours.
However, he added, it was becoming more and more difficult to
implement this arrangement due to the general build-up of traffic in Hong
Kong's road network.
He was replying in the Legislative Council to the Hon. Szeto Wai
who had asked: "Will Government review the existing arrangements for
effecting minor repairs to roads which are heavily used by vehicles (such
as Queensway) to ensure that such repairs are, so far as practicable,
avoided during peak hours?"
Mr. Robson explained that the volume of traffic on the city
streets was now such that the hourly traffic volume remained high throughout
daylight hours and, in some locations, only dropped to a low level very
late at night.
Under these traffic conditions, he said, decisions had to be taken
the road user
on which section of the community was to be inconvenienced
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if work was carried out during the day, or the resident if night work was
resorted to.
"It is also relevant that work at night is more difficult to
carry out, more expensive and because it sounds infinitely more noisy than
during the day, possibly more objectionable but to a lesser number of people."
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