WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1989
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MEASURES TAKEN TO REDUCE FREIGHT TRAIN NOISE
SEVERAL THE KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY CORPORATION HAS IMPLEMENTED
THE SECRETARY MEASURES TO REDUCE FREIGHT TRAIN NOISE AFTER MIDNIGHT,
TOLD THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL FOR TRANSPORT, THE HON MICHAEL LEUNG, TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
REPLYING TO A QUESTION FROM THE HON PEGGY LAM,
MR LEUNG SAID
THESE MEASURES INCLUDED:
*
INSTALLING
NEW SILENCERS
THE ON
OF EXHAUSTS
DIESEL ΤΟ BE CONDUCTED
LOCOMOTIVES, PENDING THE RESULTS OF TESTS ON THEIR EFFECTIVENESS;
* REDUCING THE NUMBER OF
TRAIN FREIGHT THREE DURING THE PERIOD BETWEEN 11 PM TO FROM NEXT MONTH; AND
PATHS FROM
FOUR
ΤΟ
2 AM WITH EFFECT
REDUCE
THE
* LUBRICATING THE RAIL TRACKS AT STRATEGIC LOCATIONS TO
THE LEVEL OF NOISE CAUSED BY THE WHEEL AND RAIL INTERACTION.
PART OF A CONTINUING EXERCISE, MR LEUNG ADDED THAT AS
IDENTIFY CORPORATION HAD ESTABLISHED A RAILWAY NOISE WORKING GROUP TO
AND IMPLEMENT THEM OTHER NOISE-REDUCING MEASURES, AND THEN EVALUATE WHENEVER PRACTICABLE.
HAD ASKED
WHETHER
ANY
ACTION
WOULD
MRS LAM MINIMISE THE NOISE NUISANCE CAUSED BY FREIGHT TRAINS 11 PM AND 2 AM AND BY TRAINS PASSING THROUGH THE AREAS WAI END OF THE BEACON HILL TUNNEL.
BE TAKEN TO RUNNING BETWEEN NEAR THE TAI
EDUCATION COMMISSION TO RECONSIDER MINIMUM PRIMARY SCHOOL ENTRY AGE
*
NOW STUDYING THE CURRICULA AND THE EDUCATION COMMISSION IS
YEARS OF FREE AND COMPULSORY BEHAVIOURAL PROBLEMS DURING THE NINE
AND MANPOWER, EDUCATION
THE HON RON EDUCATION, THE SECRETARY FOR BRIDGE, SAID IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
WOULD
ENTRY
THE HON DAVID CHEUNG CHI-KONG, IN REPLY TO A QUESTION FROM MR BRIDGE SAID THAT IN THE CONTEXT OF THE STUDY THE COMMISSION RECONSIDER WHETHER IT WAS DESIRABLE TO LOWER THE MINIMUM AGE OF TO PRIMARY SCHOOLS.
WAS THAT FIVE YEARS AND THE AGE OF
MR BRIDGE ALSO POINTED OUT THAT THE PRESENT POSITION CHILDREN MIGHT START PRIMARY SCHOOL FROM THE AGE OF EIGHT MONTHS, THOUGH ATTENDANCE WAS NOT COMPULSORY UNTIL SIX.
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