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"When the original committee was appointed we had no Transport
Department as we have today," Mr. Robson added. "Nor did we have a
Secretary for the Environment responsible for the co-ordination of all
transport matters".
"The re-organisation of the Transport Advisory Committee is
intended to take these changed circumstances into account, relieving
the committee of the more technical and detailed aspects of transport
planning and leaving it free to consider matters of principle and general
transport policy."
"The old terms of reference required the committee to advise
the Governor.
Because more of its work will affect major policy decisions
in its new role, it is considered more appropriate for the committee in
future to advise the Governor in Council."
"The groundwork for this new role has been very firmly laid by the
outgoing · committee, the sound counsel of which was invaluable in formulating
our transport policy in the past. As their successors, we are very conscious
of the debt we owe to its members. No city finds easy, ready made solutions
to its transport problems. In Hong Kong these are worsened by the density
of our urban development, which is the highest in the world,"
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