SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1988
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HK'S TRANSPORT SYSTEM IS CAREFULLY PLANNED
HONG KONG'S EFFICIENT HIGHWAY AND PUBLIC TRANSPORT SYSTEM IS
PLANNING BY THE RESULT OF CAREFUL AND THOROUGH ADVANCE THE SECRETARY FOR TRANSPORT, MR MICHAEL LEUNG, SAID TODAY
A
GOVERNMENT, (SATURDAY).
HONG KONG" AT LEUNG SAID THAT DESPITE HONG KONG'S TRANSPORT
A
SEMINAR
SYSTEM WAS
SPEAKING ON "TRANSPORT PLANNING IN ORGANISED BY MEETING POINT, MR COMPLAINTS ABOUT CONGESTION, EFFICIENT.
OCCASIONAL
OTHER DENSITY.
THE SYSTEM WAS COMPARABLE IF NOT
HONG CITIES OF THE WORLD GIVEN
BETTER THAN THOSE OF MANY
VERY HIGH KONG'S
POPULATION
YEARS THE GOVERNMENT
-
HAD
MR LEUNG POINTED OUT THAT OVER THE
ALL INVESTED BILLIONS OF DOLLARS ON MASSIVE AND AMBITIOUS PROJECTS
ROAD PLANNED AND IMPLEMENTED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE VARIOUS LONG TERM
THE
PAPER 1979 WHITE AND RAIL STUDIES AND
INTERNAI, TRANSPORT
POLICY.
PUBLIC
TRANSPORT
SERVICES
AS A
ON
CONSEQUENCE
WERE
EXPANDED AND
CONSIDERABLY THROUGH THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE MASS TRANSIT RAILWAY THE ELECTRIFICATION OF THE KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.
THE TRAVEL DEMAND, NOW RUNNING AT 9.4 MILLION DAILY PASSENGERS, CONTINUED TO GROW.
THE TODAY REQUIRED
THAT NONE OF THE FACT MR LEUNG ALSO EMPHASISED
MODES IN OPERATION MULTIFARIOUS
TRANSPORT SUBSIDY FROM THE TAXPAYER FOR THEIR OPERATION.
PUBLIC
SUCCESSFUL COMBINATION OF AND CO-ORDINATION PRESERVE AS WE GO ON
SUCH CHARACTERISTICS REFLECTED THE PRIVATE SECTOR INITIATIVES AND GOVERNMENT MONITORING, WHICH HE STRESSED, "WE INTEND TO DEVELOPING OUR TRANSPORT SYSTEM.
It
то CONTINUE WITH
MR LEUNG SAID THE GOVERNMENT WAS DETERMINED PLANS TO EXPAND THE TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE BEING IDENTIFIED SECOND COMPREHENSIVE TRANSPORT STUDY (CTS-2).
BY THE
/SOME OF