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DAILY INFORMATION BULLETIN
Thursday, September 21, 1972
MASS TRANSIT SCHEME TO MEET
"BOOMING DEMAND FOR PUBLIC TRANSPORT"
The Acting Commissioner for Transport, Mr. R. Butler, today
compared the difference between the Bay Area Rapid Transit system in the
United States and the proposed Mass Transit system in Hong Kong.
Speaking at the Kowloon Rotary Club luncheon today, he said the
attraction of BART is its speed.
Mr. Butler said:
"The Rapid Transit has been reintroduced in
America because the private car has failed to move people around at
particularly on the trip to and from school and
satisfactory speeds
the place of work."
It has a maximum speed of 80 miles per hour and its service speeds
are 45-50 m.p.h.
Referring to Hong Kong's proposed Mass Transit, he said, it is
aimed at feeding a booming demand for public transport and enabling people
who in the main are "car-less to move. TT
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With our short distances," the planned average speed of movement
by the proposed mass transit is 20 miles an hour."
Today four million or so passengers travel on public transport.
By mid 1980's it is estimated that the number will have risen to 71⁄2 million.
Mr. Butler
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