SUNDAY, MAY 1, 1983
ELECTRIFIED TRAINS TO GET STRONG FEEDER SUPPORT ******
THE TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT IN COLLABORATION WITH KOWLOON MOTOR BUS CO HAVE PREPARED A COMPLETE FEEDER NETWORK TO COINCIDE WITH THE EXTENSION OF ELECTRIFIED TRAIN SERVICES TO TAI PO TOMORROW (MAY 2).
KMB ROUTE 72K LINKING THE NEW RAILWAY STATION WITH TAI YUEN WILL BEGIN OPERATION FROM TOMORROW AT A FREQUENCY OF 12 MINUTES. A FARE OF 60 CENTS WILL BE CHARGED.
THREE OTHER BUS ROUTES AT PRESENT SERVING TAI PO MARKET WILL BE EXTENDED TO THE STATION ON THE SAME DAY: NO. 65 FROM SHEUNG TSUEN IN SHEK KONG, NO. 75 FROM TAI MEI TUK AND NO. 69 FROM CHOI YUEN. THEY WILL BE RENUMBERED 65K, 75K AND 69K RESPECTIVELY.
KMB ROUTES 64K FROM YUEN LONG WEST AND 74K FROM SAM MUN TSAI WERE EXTENDED TO THE STATION A FEW WEEKS AGO. SO WERE MAXICABS NO. 20K FROM SAM MUN TSAI, 21K FROM TAI PO TAU, 22K FROM KAM SHAN, 23K FROM WUN YIU AND 25K FROM LAM TSUEN.
+THE NEW FEEDER NETWORK WILL PROVIDE GOOD SUPPORT FOR THE ELECTRIFIED TRAIN SERVICE WHICH, WITH IMPROVED FREQUENCY AND A JOURNEY TIME OF ONLY 23 MINUTES TO KOWLOON, WILL PROVE TO BE A BOON TO A LARGE NUMBER OF COMMUTERS IN TAI PO, SAID A SPOKESMAN FOR THE TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT.
+THE RAILWAY IS AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE OF THE NEW TERRITORIES AND OTHER TRANSPORT MODES MUST BE COORDINATED IN SUPPORT OF TRAIN SERVICES, HE SAID.
ALL FEEDER SERVICES WILL BE CLOSELY MONITORED AND REVISIONS WILL BE MADE WHENEVER NECESSARY, ESPECIALLY WHEN MORE PEOPLE MOVE
INTO THE NEW HOUSING ESTATES IN TAI PO.
MEANWHILE IN SHA TIN, PLANS ARE BEING PREPARED TO FURTHER IMPROVE THE FEEDER NETWORK WITHIN THE NEXT 12 MONTHS,
THE PLANS WILL INVOLVE THE INTRODUCTION OF THREE NEW BUS ROUTES IN THE NEW TOWN:
NO. 8OK BETWEEN SHA TIN RAILWAY STATION AND SUN TIN WAI WILL SERVE AS A MAJOR INTERNAL LINK BETWEEN HOUSING ESTATES IN SHA TIN VALLEY AND THE TWO SHA TIN RAILWAY STATIONS, INCLUDING TAJ WA! TEMPORARY STATION.
THE INTERNAL ROUTE 81K WILL LINK SHA KOK AND POK HONG AREA WITH SHA TIN RAILWAY STATION.
ROUTE 82K BETWEEN YUEN CHAU KOK AND SHA TIN RAILWAY STATION WILL CONNECT THE HOUSING ESTATES SOUTH OF SHING MUN RIVER WITH THE TWO RAILWAY STATIONS.
THE PROPOSED ROUTES ARE IN ADDITION TO KMB NO. 84K AND 88K, AND MAXICAB ROUTE 60K, WHICH ARE ALREADY IN OPERATION IN SHA TIN.
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