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This is a scheme for the re-organisation
and improvement of the Cross-Harbour Ferry
services at Hong Kong. There are at present two
ferry systems.
1.
(a). The "Star" Ferry, exceptionally well profitable, run, and confortable and extremely busy. (Nearly 11,000,000 passengers a year). The pressure of passengers allows no space for vehicles and the landing points in any case are unsuited to the piers required for vehicles ferried. This service
will nardly permit the use of larger boats than
are now employed, or of more frequent running.
(b). The harf and Godown Company (allied with the "Star" Ferry Company) rus
runs a motor car
service consisting of a lighter with crane and
cradles, each motor car having to be separately
put aboard and lifted out at the other end. It
carries 4 to 6 motor cars at a time and in its
present primitive form is not capable of
serious expansion. In 1929 it carried approximately
6,000 cars, 350 trucks, 260 motor-cycles and
300 ponies.
2. The Yaunati Ferry runs from two points
on the Island (Queen Victoria Street Wharf and
Western Market) to three points on the Kowloon
side. In 1928 its passengers numbered over
22,000,000. The whole system is described as
"chronically crowded". This also is a very
profitable concern.
The Government have come to the conclusion
that the time has come for relieving the present
inadequate arrangements by the provision of a
No comments yet.
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