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Friday, December 1, 1972
"Some four million passengers travel on public transport today. By
the middle 1980's the number is predicted to have risen to 71⁄2 million and the
engineers gloomily predict that even if we were really beastly to the private
motorists our road could not cope with this demand.
"We estimate that the full mass transit system would account for
50 per cent of public passenger transport movement over the area which it
would serve and that for Hong Kong as a whole it would carry one-third of all
passengers using public transport," he said.
Mr. Butler added that it would surely be wrong for Hong Kong to
allocate over $6,000 million of resources to improve the lot of the "motoring
minority" (private motorists). "So let there be no mistake. the mass transit
is for the masses."
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