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Saturday, January 13, 1973

TAXT RANKS AT THE STAR FERKY CONCOURSE

Picking Up And Setting Down Areas To Be Swapped

The picking up and setting down areas for passengers at the Star Ferry concourse in Hong Kong will be reversed later this month, the Commissioner for Transport announced today.

With one-way traffic routing at the concourse, it is illogical that the setting down area should at present be sited beyond the main picking up area.

This means that, having dropped his passenger, a taxi must travel round in a large circle before he can return empty to the picking

up area.

It would make more sense to swap over the two areas, so that a taxi first drops his passenger and then goes on empty to the picking up area ahead.

On Monday (January 15), work will start on carrying out the changes to queue railings and signs,and will be completed a week later. Taxis will then discharge on the western side of the concourse beside the subway and pick up passengers in front of the pier.

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