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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1986
MR TODD SAID THE GOVERNMENT WAS, IN CONSULTATION WITH THE NEW TERRITORIES HEUNG YEE KUK AND OTHER INTERESTED ORGANISATIONS, CONSIDERING THE NEED FOR A BOUNDARY RECTIFICATION ORDINANCE WHICH WOULD ENABLE LEASE BOUNDARIES TO BE RECTIFIED OR AUTHENTICATED AND LAND TITLE DISPUTES SETTLED BY SIMPLIFIED PROCEDURES.
+ IN PARALLEL, THE GOVERNMENT IS EXAMINING THE PROPOSAL FOR A LAND SURVEY ORDINANCE WHICH WOULD ENABLE QUALIFIED LAND SURVEYORS IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR TO UNDERTAKE SOME OF THE WORK THAT WOULD ARISE FROM THE ENACTMENT OF THE PROPOSED BOUNDARY RECTIFICATION ORDINANCE,+ HE SAID.
MEASURES TAKEN TO REDUCE CYCLING ACCIDENTS
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THE GOVERNMENT CONSIDERS THAT APART FROM THE DETERRENT EFFECT OF PROSECUTIONS, PUBLICITY, EDUCATION AND THE PROVISION OF PROPERLY DESIGNED FACILITIES FOR CYCLISTS CAN FURTHER REDUCE THE NUMBER OF CYCLING ACCIDENTS, THE SECRETARY FOR TRANSPORT, THE HON IAN MACPHERSON SAID TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
REPLYING TO A QUESTION BY DR THE HON CONRAD LAM IN THE
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, MR MACPHERSON SAID THE CYCLIST HAD BEEN INCLUDED AS ONE OF THE TARGET GROUPS FOR ROAD SAFETY PUBLICITY IN 1984-85.
+AN ANNOUNCEMENT OF PUBLIC INTEREST' ON SAFE RULES FOR CYCLING WAS PRODUCED AND REGULARLY SHOWN ON TELEVISION.
A DOCUMENTARY ON ROAD SAFETY WAS INCLUDED IN THE 'COMMON SENSE' SERIES, AND PART OF IT WAS DEDICATED TO ACCIDENTS INVOLVING CYCLISTS AND THE IMPORTANCE OF SAFETY.
+POSTERS ON SAFETY IN CYCLING WERE DISPLAYED AND LEAFLETS DISTRIBUTED, HE SAID.
ON THE EDUCATION FRONT, MR MACPHERSON SAID SAFETY IN CYCLING WAS INCLUDED IN THE SECONDARY SCHOOL ROAD SAFETY TEACHING KIT WHICH WAS BEING WIDELY USED IN SCHOOLS.
+ THE REVISED ROAD USERS' CODE, WHICH WILL BE PUBLISHED_LATER THIS YEAR, WILL INCLUDE A SECTION GIVING GUIDANCE TO CYCLISTS. +
HE ADDED THAT SPECIALISED FACILITIES SUCH AS CYCLE TRACKS AND CYCLE PARKS WERE BEING PROVIDED WITH THE OBJECTIVE TO SEGREGATE CYCLISTS FROM MOTORISTS TO REDUCE CHANCE OF ACCIDENTS.
+IT IS HOPED THAT THESE MEASURES WILL PROVE EFFECTIVE,+ HE SAID.
/MR MACPHERSON
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