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Miss Ying expressed hope that this scheme could increase drivers' awareness towards safe driving distance and lead to a reduction of road traffic accidents.
France.
She noted that similar experiments were conducted in the United Kingdom and
"In the UK ones, an achievement of 56 per cent in accidents and improve driving behaviour were realised. We surely hope similar results can be achieved in Hong Kong to cut down our accident rates and casualties", she said.
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Bill to shorten obstructing article removal time introduced
The owner of an article which causes obstruction to a scavenging operation or to any street sweeper must remove it within four hours if the Public Health and Municipal Services (Amendment) Bill 1996 is passed into law.
Under the present arrangement, officers of the two municipal services departments can issue notice to an owner to remove his obstructing articles within such period, being not less than 24 hours, as may be specified in the notice.
"Both the Urban Services Department and the Regional Services Department are of the view that the legislative provision is ineffective," a spokesman for the Recreation and Culture Branch said.
"It is therefore proposed that the statutory period under which the owner must remove his obstructing articles be shortened from 24 hours to four hours so as to facilitate the early removal of such articles," he added.
The proposal is supported by the two municipal councils.
The amendment bill will be introduced into the Legislative Council on May 15.
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