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MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 1977

NEW BUS SERVICES TO HOUSING ESTATE IN NT

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TWO MAJOR TRAFFIC SCHEMES ARE BEING INTRODUCED TOMORROW (TUESDAY) INVOLVING THE OPENING OF TAI HING ESTATE AT TUEN MUN AND A COMPLETE REVISION OF TRAFFIC FLOW IN SHATIN.

A LARGE NUMBER OF BUS ROUTE REVISIONS ARE BEING INTRODUCED INCLUDING SERVICES TO LAI YIU, LAI KING, CHEUNG CHING, TAI HING AND LEK YUEN ESTATES.

A TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT SPOKESMAN SAID THAT A NEW COACH SERVICE, NO.246, HAS BEEN INTRODUCED TO LAI YIU AND LAI KING ESTATES AND DOUBLE-DECKER BUSES ARE BEING ALLOCATED TO THE CURRENT ROUTE 45.

THE SPOKESMAN SAID THAT THREE BUS ROUTES, 33A, 37A AND 44A HAVE BEEN DIVERTED TO SERVE THE CONTAINER PORT ROAD. ADDITIONAL BUS ROUTES NOW SERVE TAI HING ESTATE, SUCH AS ROUTE 52A BETWEEN TSUEN WAN AND TUEN MUN, ROUTE 59 TO PAK KOK AND ROUTE 61 FROM TAI HING TO YUEN LONG.

THE ACTING ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER FOR TRANSPORT, MR. PETER MILLER AND THE SENIOR TRANSPORT OFFICER RESPONSIBLE FOR PUBLIC TRANSPORT IN THE NEW TERRITORIES, MR. JOHN SHEARMAN, WILL BE ON HAND EARLY TOMORROW MORNING AT ALL THE VARIOUS LOCATIONS WHERE THE REVISIONS WILL BE INTRODUCED TO MONITOR THE SITUATION.

INCLUDED IN THEIR VISITS WILL BE CHEUNG CHING IN PREPARATION FOR THE INTRODUCTION OF LARGER DOUBLE-DECKER BUSES ON ROUTE 44A TO KOWLOON, AND ALSO IN READINESS FOR A NEW ROUTE 43 FROM CHEUNG CHING TO TSUEN WAN FERRY.

AT LEK YUEN ESTATE IN SHA TIN THEY WILL BE INSPECTING THE SITUATION AS A RESULT OF INCREASED FREQUENCIES ON ROUTES 87 AND 89 ALONG WITH THE INTRODUCTION OF LARGE CAPACITY DOUBLE DECKERS ON THESE TWO ROUTES.

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