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Wednesday, March 15, 1972

HON. SIR Y.K, KAN URGES "THOROUGH-GOING RE-APPRAISAL"

OF GOVERNMENT TRANSPORT POLICIES

Sound Overall Policy Needed For The Future

The Hon. Sir Yuet-keung Kan today called on the Government to make a

"thorough-going re-appraisal of its piece-meal policies" on road transport and

to work out a "sound overall policy for the future."

Speaking in the resumed debate on the Budget in the Legislative Council,

the Senior Unofficial Member said the transport problem "vitally affects every

member of our population, as it does the people of any great city."

Sir Yuet-keung said that the Government, instead of facing up to the

road congestion problem in a satisfactory manner, was attempting to make the

commuter travelling by car the villain of the piece."

Government was still avoiding "coming to grips" with the transport

problem as a whole and working out a satisfactory overall policy.

Sir Yuet-keung said Government had placed itself in an "invidious

position" on the question of private motorists and parking by having two widely

divergent policies - one for the general public and one for civil servants.

Whatever Government decided to do about private motorists and parking,

he added, it should not have one policy for members of the general public and

an entirely different one for civil servants.

In his remarks on the transport problem, Sir Yuet-keung said: "And

the growth of this problem in the light of our rapidly expanding vehicular use

of our roads has been evident for a long time.

/"Yet today