SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 1986
ABOUT ONE-FIFTH OF THE COMPLAINTS WERE DIRECTED AGAINST TWO POUTES: NT ROUTE 10 BETWEEN KWUN TONG AND RENNIE'S MILL (10 CASES) AND NT ROUTE 62K BETWEEN SHA TIN KCR STATION AND SHATIN LODGE (13 CASES).
ON COMPLAINTS ABOUT ROAD CONGESTION, TCU RECORDED 290 CASES WHICH ACCOUNTED FOR ONE-FIFTH OF ALL THE COMPLAINTS RECEIVED IN THE QUARTER.
+COMPLAINTS ABOUT ROAD CONGESTION IN THE URBAN AREAS CONTINUED TO INCREASE FROM 142 IN THE SAME PERIOD OF THE PREVIOUS YEAR AND 206 IN THE LAST QUARTER TO 237.
+BUT SIMILAR COMPLAINTS CONCERNING THE NEW TEKRITORIES INCREASED SLIGHTLY FROM 41 IN THE SAME PERIOD OF THE PREVIOUS -YEAR TO 53 AND SHOWED A DROP WHEN COMPARED TO THE LAST QUARTER'S
68, + MR PANG SAID.
THE MAIN SUBJECTS WERE OBSTRUCTION CAUSED BY VEHICLES (12) CASES) AND TRAFFIC LIGHTS AND TRAFFIC ARRANGEMENTS (102 CASES). OF THE 120 CASES ABOUT VEHICLE OBSTRUCTION, 65 MERE DIRECTED AGAINST PUBLIC LIGHT BUSES.
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COMPLAINTS
THERE WERE FEWER COMPLAINTS ABOUT PARKING FACILITIES ASES IN THE QUARTER AND 103 IN THE LAST QUARTER.
CT ILLEGAL PARKING ALSO DECREASED FROM 72 IN THE LAST QUARTER TO 47.
JOBLESS RATE STABLE ******
THE UNEMPLOYMENT AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT SITUATION REMAINED STABLE IN THE QUARTER NOVEMBER 1985-JANUARY 1986 COMPARED WITH THE QUARTER ENDING OCTOBER 1985, ACCORDING TO THE LATEST LABOUR FORCE STATISTICS RELEASED TODAY (SATURDAY) BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.
THE SEASONALLY ADJUSTED UNEMPLOYMENT RATE FOR NOVEMBER 1985– JANUARY 1986 WAS 3.1 PER CENT, COMPARED WITH THE RATE OF 3.4 PER CENT FOR THE QUARTER ENDING OCTOBER 1985 AND THE QUARTER ENDING JANUARY 1985.
+ THE DECREASES OF 0.3 PERCENTAGE POINT OVER THE PREVIOUS QUARTER AND THE SAME QUARTER ENDING JANUARY 1985 WERE BOTH STATISTICALLY NOT SIGNIFICANT, A SPOKESMAN FOR THE DEPARTMENT
SAID.
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