MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1991
IN ADDITION TO THE LONG ESTABLISHED ROAD OPENING CO-ORDINATING REGIONAL OFFICES, COMMITTEE IN EACH OF THE THREE HIGHWAYS DEPARTMENT
THE NEW TERRITORIES, RESPECTIVELY FOR HONG KONG ISLAND, KOWLOON AND
BY GOVERNMENT AND PRIVATE UTILITY TWO COMMITTEES HAD BEEN FORMED UNDERTAKERS AT DIFFERENT LEVELS TO ENHANCE CO-ORDINATION AMONG THEM.
HE
AT TOP GROUP FORMED AT JOINT SAID THE
UTILITIES POLICY
POLICIES. MANAGEMENT LEVEL PROVIDED A FORUM FOR DISCUSSION ON UTILITY
THIS GROUP BY MR KWB1 THE HIGHWAYS DEPARTMENT WAS REPRESENTED AT HIMSELF.
A
TECHNICAL UTILITIES
AT
SENIOR
REPRESENTATIVES
LIAISON
COMMITTEE
BY
FORMED STRENGTHENED THE UNDERTAKERS TO IMPROVE 90 THAT DISRUPTION TO THE
MANAGEMENT LEVEL, CO-ORDINATION AND CO-OPERATION OF UTILITY PROCEDURAL AS WELL AS TECHNICAL MATTERS GENERAL PUBLIC CAN BE MINIMISED.
ON THE REGIONAL ROAD OPENING CO-ORDINATING COMMITTEE, IT COMPRISED REPRESENTATIVES
DEPARTMENTS
ALL FROM INCLUDING THE GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT AND OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES.
UTILITY COMPANIES, POLICE AND THE
HE SAID RELEVANT TRANSPORT
DEPARTMENT WHICH PROPOSED EACH UTILITY COMPANY OR GOVERNMENT
PROGRAMME EVERY MONTH CARRY
WORK PREPARED OUT EXCAVATION DETAILING WORKS IN HAND AND ALSO THOSE IN THE PLANNING STAGE.
TO
A
THE HIGHWAYS MR KWEI SAID THESE PROGRAMMES WERE FORWARDED TO
RESPECTIVE REGION FOR COLLATION REGIONAL OFFICE IN THEIR
INTO AN OVERALL PROGRAMME WHICH WAS TO BE DISCUSSED BY THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS.
THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS EXERCISK
PUBLIC
WAS TO
BLIMINATE UNNECESSARY
DISTURBANCE ΤΟ THE
TO TRAFFIC AND DISRUPTION AND KERP
OPENINGS WERE SO PROGRAMMED PEDESTRIANS TO A MINIMUM. WHERE POSSIBLE, OPENINGS WERE SO THAT A SINGLE TRENCH SERVED MORE THAN ONE UTILITY SERVICE.
IN MONITORING ROAD OPENING DATA ASSOCIATED WITH UTILITY
BEEN COMPUTERISED. RECENTLY
MR KWEI SAID ANOTHER IMPROVEMENT WAS THAT THE STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL OF OPENINGS INFRINGEMENTS TO THE PERMIT CONDITIONS COULD BE RAPIDLY DETECTED.
AND
PERMIT
CONDITIONS
THAT A
HAD
FURTHER STEP
WAS
ADDED
NOW BEING COMPUTERISE THE MONTHLY PROGRAMME OF TRENCIL WORKS.
TAKEN
ΤΟ
THE DIRECTOR OF HIGHWAYS STRESSED THAT AS A MATTER OF POLICY, CONSTRUCTED OR ROAD OPENINGS WOULD NOT BE PERMITTED IN A CARRIAGEWAY
FIVE YEARS AND IN A CARRIAGEWAY RESURFACED RECONSTRUCTED WITHIN WITHIN ONE YEAR.
FAULTS,
HAD
HOWEVER, EMERGENCY OPENINGS WERE PERMITTED TO RECTIFY RESTORE SERVICES OR INSTALLING ADDITIONAL SERVICES THAT COULD NOT BERN ANTICIPATED PROVIDED NO PRACTICABLE ALTERNATIVE EXISTED.
IN
RESPONSE
'TO
PUBLIC
OPENINGS IN THE SAME PLACE, MR KWEI
CRITICISM
SAID
REGARDING
REPEATED
ROAD
SOME EMERGENCY OPENINGS MIGHT HAPPEN IN THE SOME PLANNED ROAD OPENINGS.
ONE EXPLANATION WAS
VICINITY OR SOON
THAT
AFTER
/OR SOMETIMES,