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The Tender Form, Tender Notice and Conditions may be obtained from the Lands Department, 14th floor, Murray Building, Garden Road, Hong Kong and the District Lands Offices (Kowloon), Yau Ma Tei car park building, 10th floor, 250 Shanghai Street, Kowloon.
The tender documents will also be available at the District Lands Offices of Sha Tin, Tai Po, North, Yuen Long, Tsuen Wan, Kwai Tsing, Tuen Mun, Sai Kung and Islands.
Closing date for acceptance of tender is noon on August 25.
End/Friday, June 30, 1995
Electronic parking devices
The Transport Department plans to replace by phases within the next three years, the current on-street mechanical parking meters with electronic parking devices.
The 13,500 on-street parking meters currently in use are coin-operated.
The first phase is to replace about 30 per cent of the present mechanical meters by the end of next year at suitable locations on Hong Kong Island, Kowloon and the New Territories.
In demonstrating the operation of electronic parking devices at a press conference today (Friday), the Assistant Commissioner for Transport (Management and Licensing), Dr Ernest Lee, said the electronic parking devices would include electronic parking meters (EPM) and pay-and-display machines (PDM).
The EPM will be installed at on-street parking spaces; while the PDM at suitable parking lots. Both the EPM and PDM will be cashless, operated by a common parking card.
"Coin-operated mechanical parking meters were first introduced in Hong Kong about 30 years ago. They are becoming technologically obsolete. The manufacturer has advised that he would no longer supply the existing mechanical meters and would discontinue supply of the spare parts in a few years time. Besides, mechanical meters can only provide very limited management information.
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