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SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1974
NEW PARKING METERS FOR TSIM SHA TSUI
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THE TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT ANNOUNCED TODAY THAT AS FROM MONDAY (JUNE 3) THE OLD RATE METERS AT PRESENT INSTALLED IN THE TSIM SHA TSUI DISTRICT OF KOWLOON WILL BE REMOVED AND REPLACED BY NEW RATE METERS.
APPROXIMATELY 1,000 METERS WILL REPLACE THE EXISITING OLD RATE METERS IN A PROGRAMME SPREAD OVER SEVEN WORKING DAYS.
A SPOKESMAN FOR THE DEPARTMENT SAID THAT THE LEGISLATION ON CHARGING THE NEW RATES FOR PARKING METERS WAS PASSED IN JUNE 1972.
HE SAID: +CENTRAL DISTRICT WAS THE FIRST DISTRICT IN HONG KONG TO HAVE THESE NEW RATE METERS INSTALLED. CONVERSION WILL COMMENCE FROM MONDAY, AND IT IS EXPECTED TO BE COMPLETED BY JUNE 11. WHEN THIS IS COMPLETED, THE PROGRAMME WILL THEN BE EXPANDED NORTHWARDS TO INCLUDE AREAS UP TO JORDAN ROAD. ABOUT 400 METERS WILL BE INVOLVED IN THIS EXPANSION PROGRAMME.+
LIKE THE METERS RECENTLY INSTALLED IN CENTRAL DISTRICT, THESE NEW METERS WILL ACCEPT ONLY 50 CENTS OR ONE DOLLAR COINS DEPENDING ON THE TYPE OF METER. THEY WILL NOT TAKE 10 CENT COINS.
UNDER THE NEW SYSTEM, THERE WILL BE TWO TYPES OF TWO HOUR METER ONE WHICH ACCEPTS 50 CENT COINS FOR 30 MINUTES AND THE SECOND WHICH WILL ACCEPT 50 CENT COINS FOR ONE HOUR. AT THE NEW RATE HALF HOUR METERS, THE CHARGE WILL BE A FLAT $1.00.
THE SPOKESMAN ALSO ANNOUNCED THAT SIMULTANEOUS WITH THIS CONVERSION PROGRAMME, ALL METERS IN TSIM SHA TSUI WILL BE OPERATIONAL UNTIL MID-NIGHT INSTEAD OF UP TO 7.00 P.M. AS AT PRESENT.
THE REPLACEMENT PROGRAMME, HE ADDED, WILL BEGIN WITH THE CHARGING OVER OF THE METERS OUTSIDE THE TSIM SHA TSUI POST OFFICE. AS THE PROGRAMME PROGRESSES ALL METERED PARKING SPACES IN TSIM SHA TSUI AND IN THE AREA UP TO JORDAN ROAD WILL BE CHANGED TO THE NEW RATE METERS.
DURING AND AFTER THE CHANGEOVER MOTORISTS ARE ADVISED TO READ CAREFULLY THE REGULATIONS PRINTED ON THE METAL PLATE ATTACHED TO THE PARKING METER TO ENSURE THAT THE CORRECT COINS ARE INSERTED.
CARS ALREADY PARKED AT THE OLD RATE METERS WHICH ARE SUBSEQUENTLY CHANGED TO THE NEW METERS WHILST THE CAR IS STILL PARKED WILL BE GIVEN THE FULL TIME ALLOVED BY THE METER AFTER IT HAS BEEN REPLACED.
THE SPOKESMAN SAID THAT ARRANGEMENTS HAD ALSO BEEN MADE TO CANCEL ANY PARKING TICKETS ISSUED TO A MOTORIST WHO MAY HAVE PARKED HIS CAR AT A 10 HOUR OR 4 HOUR METER WHEN IT WAS REPLACED BY A TWO HOUR METER.
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