THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1988
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EXPO WOULD PUT STRAINS ON RESOURCES
THE HON NELLIE FONG
SAID IN
THE
LEGISLATIVE
(THURSDAY) THAT SHE WAS AGAINST THE IDEA OF HOSTING AN KONG IN 1997.
COUNCIL
TODAY
EXPO IN HONG
WERE THE STRAINS SHE LIMITED RESOURCES, POSSIBLY SERIOUS BOTTLENECK IT
THE MAIN REASONS FOR OPPOSING THE IDEA BELIEVED IT WOULD PUT ON HONG KONG'S SETTING BACK OTHER PRIORITY PROJECTS, AND THE WOULD CREATE AT THE AIRPORT, SHE SAID.
SHE SAID THAT ON A STRICT DOLLAR FOR DOLLAR NOT NORMALLY GET CLOSE TO BREAKING EVEN.
BASIS, EXPOS DID
WHICH CLAIMED
MRS FONG SAID: "IN MY VIEW, COUNTRIES BEEN PROFITABLE IN HOSTING EXPOS HAVE GIVEN VALUES TO CERTAIN FACILITIES AND INFRASTRUCTURE THAT WERE LEFT BEHIND.
TO HAVE OF THE
ΤΟ BE A SIGNIFICANT 'IN HONG KONG'S CASE, THERE IS UNLIKELY
AND WILL NEED TO SIMILAR RESIDUAL VALUE AS WE ARE SO SHORT OF LAND CONVERT THE SITE TO AN ALTERNATIVE USE SHORTLY AFTER THE EVENT.
SHE ADDED THAT SHE WAS CONCERNED ABOUT MORE THAN JUST THE COST.
SHE NOTED THAT THE PRE-FEASIBILITY STUDY
COMMISSIONED BY THE RESOURCES NECESSARY
HON STEPHEN CHEONG DID NOT TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE TO BUILD THE INFRASTRUCTURE TO ADEQUATELY SUPPORT AN EXPO.
ALL THIS WOULD IN FLYOVERS, EXTENSIONS TO THE UTILITIES AND SO ON.
LIKELIHOOD
ADDITIONAL INCLUDE
ROADS AND
MASS TRANSIT
RAILWAY,
CONNECTIONS
FOR
AND LABOUR
MATERIALS,
WILL
甲申
AND THERE
BE PROGRESSES, SHE
"WE ALSO NEED INCONVENIENCE TO THE GENERAL POPULATION AS THE WORK
NOTED.
AN SHE WAS WORRIED THAT TO COMMIT HUGE AMOUNTS OF RESOURCES TO
PROJECTS INCLUDING A NEW EXPO WOULD AFFECT OTHER MAJOR DEVELOPMENT AIRPORT, NEW PORT FACILITIES, TRUNK ROADS, TUNNELS AND HOUSING.
KONG
THAT EXPO VISITORS AIRPORT, INTERNATIONAL
MRS FONG SAID ANOTHER OF HER CONCERNS WAS WOULD ADD AN ADDITIONAL BURDEN TO HONG WHICH WOULD REACH A SATURATION POINT SOME YEARS BEFORE 1997.
BE AT SHE SAID THE ADDITIONAL VISITORS WHO CAME TO EXPO WOULD
TRAVELLING FOR BUSINESS THE EXPENSE OF THOSE WHO WOULD OTHERWISE BE OR OTHER PURPOSES.
THEY
BUSINESSMEN COULD NOT NORMALLY PLAN THEIR
THE FIRST AHEAD. ACCORDINGLY, FLIGHTS WERE FULL.
WOULD
BE
FLIGHTS SIX MONTHS
WHEN TO SUFFER
THE
"THE IMPACT OF THIS ON HONG KONG'S ECONOMY COULD BE SERIOUS OUR EXPORTERS HAVE TROUBLE GETTING ON PLANES TO LEAVE OR TO RETURN
SHE SAID. HONG KONG DURING THE PERIOD OF THE EXPO,
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