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The tunnel contractor has submitted a preliminary report on the incident at the Aberdeen Tunnel yesterday evening, which resulted in a 30- minute disruption to traffic. The Department is studying the report and has also asked for additional information from the contractor.
The opportunity was also taken to review the contractor's contingency plan in order to ensure that traffic through the tunnel is not disrupted.
Members of the Transport Department Tunnel Monitoring Team will continuously be deployed to the Aberdeen Tunnel to provide a continuous liaison at the operational level in the next few days, until the labour dispute is satisfactorily resolved.
End/Thursday, December 8, 1994
Thirteen rescuers awarded for bravery
The Director of Marine, Mr Allan Pyrke, today (Thursday) presented his Commendation for Bravery to 13 people who acted above the normal call of duty to rescue others from the sea.
The recipients involving in 10 rescues in this year were seven officers of the Royal Hong Kong Police Force, five crew members of local ferries and a citizen.
Speaking at the presentation ceremony at the Mariners' Club, Mr Pyrke said it was sometimes said Hong Kong was a city of selfish people, only interested in themselves and their immediate families.
"The presence of these brave people here today is a heartening reminder that this is untrue. Each one has risked his own life to save a complete stranger from the sea," he said.
Mr Pyrke added that some of these incidents occurred in cold weather and treacherous sea conditions but he felt sure that on each of these occasions the rescuer had to make that gut-wrenching decision to jump and did so unflinchingly.
Among the recipients are Police Station Sergeant Tsang Fung-tai, and Police Constables So Ming-tak, Mok Siu-bun, Lo Ping-kwan, Wong Chi-wai, Cheung Wai- shing and Chu Chi-ming.