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Friday, March 15, 1974

"When the original committee was appointed we had no Transport

Department as we have today," Mr. Robson added. "Nor did we have a

Secretary for the Environment responsible for the co-ordination of all

transport matters".

"The re-organisation of the Transport Advisory Committee is

intended to take these changed circumstances into account, relieving

the committee of the more technical and detailed aspects of transport

planning and leaving it free to consider matters of principle and general

transport policy."

"The old terms of reference required the committee to advise

the Governor.

Because more of its work will affect major policy decisions

in its new role, it is considered more appropriate for the committee in

future to advise the Governor in Council."

"The groundwork for this new role has been very firmly laid by the

outgoing · committee, the sound counsel of which was invaluable in formulating

our transport policy in the past. As their successors, we are very conscious

of the debt we owe to its members. No city finds easy, ready made solutions

to its transport problems. In Hong Kong these are worsened by the density

of our urban development, which is the highest in the world,"

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