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THEY INSPECTED DISPLAY MATERIAL ON THE EXHIBITION CENTRE AND TALKED TO THE OFFICER-IN-CHARGE, INSPECTOR YUEN CHUN-BIU.
MR YUEN WAS A MEMBER OF THE POLICE FOUR-MAN RECRUITMENT PUBLICITY TEAM TWO YEARS AGO AND HE BECAME A POPULAR FACE IN HONG KONG WHEN HE WAS THE STAR OF A POLICE RECRUITING TELEVISION COMMERCIAL, DEPICTING HIS SCHOLASTIC AND SPORTING ACHIEVEMENTS.
KWAI FONG CAR PARK OPENED ***
THE TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT'S FIRST MULTI-STOREY CAR PARK IN THE NEW TERRITORIES WAS OPENED TODAY (MAY 10), PROVIDING MOTORISTS OF KWAI FONG WITH 580 OFF-STREET PARKING SPACES.
SITUATED AT KWAI YI ROAD NEXT TO THE KWAI FONG MTR STATION, THE EIGHT-STOREY CAR PARK IS EXPECTED TO PROVIDE +PARK AND RIDE+ ACCESS TO THE MTR BESIDES MEETING GENERAL PARKING NEEDS IN THE AREA.
THE CHARGES HAVE BEEN SET AT A RELATIVELY LOW LEVEL TO ACHIEVE MAXIMUM UTILISATION: $2 PER HOUR FROM 8 AM TO 6 PM AND $1 AN HOUR FROM 6 PM TO 8 AM THE FOLLOWING DAY.
THE MONTHLY TICKET WILL BE AT $400.
THE COMMISSIONER FOR TRANSPORT, MR PETER LEEDS, SAID THAT ALTHOUGH IT WAS THE GOVERNMENT'S POLICY TO GIVE PRIORITY TO THE MASS CARRIERS, THE DEPARTMENT HAD NOT IGNORED THE IMPORTANCE OF PRIVATE CARS IN HONG KONG'S TRANSPORT SYSTEM.
+THE TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT IS OFTEN ACCUSED OF BEING UNFAIR TO PRIVATE MOTORISTS AND OF HAVING A POLICY AIMED AT ELIMINATING THE PRIVATE CAR. THIS IS NOT TRUE, HE SAID.
+ON THE ROADS, PRIORITY MEASURES ARE INTRODUCED FOR BUSES BUT THIS DOES NOT MEAN THAT THE TRANSPORT SYSTEM COULD DO WITHOUT PRIVATE CARS.
+PUBLIC TRANSPORT COULD NEVER COPE WITH EVERY INDIVIDUAL TRANSPORT DEMAND. THERE WILL ALWAYS BE ESSENTIAL JOURNEYS WHERE THE SPEED AND CONVENIENCE OF A PRIVATE CAR IS ESSENTIAL, MR LEEDS SAID.
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THERE ARE AT PRESENT ABOUT 213 000 PRIVATE CARS REGISTERED IN HONG KONG. FOR SOME YEARS, THE PLANNING HAS BEEN BASED ON AN INCREASE OF FIVE PER CENT A YEAR.
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