WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 1983
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MOTORCYCLE PARKING NOW FREE
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EXISTING GOVERNMENT POLICY ON MOTORCYCLE PARKING IS TO PROVIDE FREE ON-STREET SPACES, THE NUMBER OF WHICH IS BROADLY RELATED TO THE DEMAND AND TO AVAILABLE SPACE.
THERE ARE ABOUT 3 200 DESIGNATED MOTORCYCLE SPACES, OF WHICH 900 ARE ON HONG KONG ISLAND, 1 500 IN KOWLOON AND 800 IN THE NEW TERRITORIES.
THIS WAS STATED BY THE SECRETARY FOR TRANSPORT, THE HON ALAN SCOTT, IN REPLY TO A QUESTION BY THE HON ANDREW SO, IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY.
+PROVISION OF MOTORCYCLE PARKING FACILITIES IS NOT RELATED SOLELY TO THE NUMBER OF REGISTERED PRIVATE MOTORCYCLES. THE PROVISION OF PARKING FACILITIES HAS TO BE BALANCED TO TAKE ACCOUNT OF THE NEEDS OF ALL TYPES OF VEHICLES,+ MR SCOTT SAID.
REFERRING TO A QUESTION BY THE HON K.C. CHAN ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF RESITING EXISTING TRAM STOPS NEAR TRAFFIC LIGHTS, MR SCOTT SAID RESITING THEM COULD INDEED BE A METHOD OF IMPROVING SAFETY AND TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT.
+BUT OTHER SOMEWHAT MORE EASILY IMPLEMENTED MEASURES WERE ALSO AS EFFECTIVE, HE ADDED.
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AT ONE SITE - THE DES VOEUX ROAD AND EASTERN ROAD JUNCTION FOR INSTANCE, THE NUMBER OF PEDESTRIAN ACCIDENTS WAS REDUCED FROM 21 PER ANNUM TO ONE, BY BANNING MOTOR VEHICLES FROM TRAVELLING ON THE TRAM TRACKS ADJACENT TO A TRAM ISLAND, MR SCOTT SAID.
HE SAID ALSO THAT ABOUT HALF OF THE TRAM STOPS WERE NEAR ROAD JUNCTIONS, MANY OF WHICH HAD TRAFFIC SIGNALS, MR SCOTT SAID.
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