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Wednesday, July 4, 1973
MEASURES TO IMPROVE BUS SERVICES
The government is considering a number of measures to improve
bus services, including the establishment of "bus only lanes" and confining
some roads entirely to public transport at certain hours of the dry.
Announcing this in the Legislative Council today, the Financial
Secretary, the Hon. C.P. Haddon-Cave, said a team of consultants and
government officials were now examining the necessary measures to match
road and public transport capacity with future demands under the general
guidance of a steering group.
"It is expected that these studies will provide, in the course
of the next year or so, data on which comprehensive and detailed transport
plans to implement agreed policies can be based," he told council.
He was replying to a question from the Hon. Hilton Cheong-Loen
who wanted to know what measures were being planned over the next two to
five years to expand and improve bus services in Hong Kong in view of
growing road congestion,
The Financial Secretary said the improvement of bus services
had been a continuing concern of the government for a number of years and
was determined that efficient bus services would be provided.
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Even though the mass transit system would meet a considerable
part of Hong Kong's public transport needs in the 1980s, the bus would
remain the key to the problem of movement in the Seventies," he said.
Plans were being made, he said, to clear the way on some of
the major routes to enable buses to move with less encumbrances from other
traffic.
"Consideration
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