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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1987

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THE GOVERNOR HAD EARLIER VISITED TWO DIFFERENT TYPES OF HOUSING AT LUNG HANG ESTATE RENTAL FLAT.

A HOME

PURCHASE

FLAT

AND A

PUBLIC PUBLIC

IMPRESSED

NEW

UP A

SENSE

BY THE RAPIDLY-GROWING SIR DAVID SAID HE WAS TOWN AND THE TREMENDOUS EFFORT BY ITS RESIDENTS TO BUILD OF COMMUNITY THERE.

ASKED ABOUT THE TRAFFIC CONGESTION PROBLEM TUNNEL, SIR DAVID SAID IT WAS QUITE OBVIOUSLY A BIG DIFFICULTY.

WILL NOT

OF THE LION ROCK

TATE'S

COME UNTIL

THE "THE

SOLUTION LONG-TERM

IS CAIRN TUNNEL IS BUILT IN 1992. MEANWHILE, THE TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT

OF ALLEVIATING THE TRYING TO DO WHAT IT CAN TO FIND SHORT-TERM WAYS

BETTER. IT MARGINALLY PROBLEM, BUT IT'S ONLY TO MAKE IT

HE SAID. PROPERLY SOLVED UNTIL WE HAVE A SECOND TUNNEL,

tr

CANNOT

BE INTRODUCED AT

AS TO WHETHER A TOLL-FREE SYSTEM WOULD LION ROCK TUNNEL, SIR DAVID SAID THAT THERE HAD BEEN PROPOSALS BY

WITH TOLL-FREE TRAFFIC SHA TIN DISTRICT BOARD FOR AN EXPERIMENT ONE DIRECTION.

BE

THE

THE

IN

WHICH ARE

HOLDING THERE ARE MANY

SHEER LACK

UP

OF

"IT IS TO TEST WHETHER IT IS THE TOLLS TRAFFIC OR WHETHER IT IS THE CAPACITY OF THE TUNNEL.

IS JUST THE PROBLEM EXPERTS WHO SAY THAT THE REAL

HE ADDED. CAPACITY IN THE TUNNEL, NOT THE TOLL BOOTHS,

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TO BE SIR DAVID SAID THAT THE PROPOSAL WOULD HAVE

CONSULTANCY MEANWHILE, A BY THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL. COMMISSIONED NEXT MONTH WHICH WOULD LOOK INTO ALL WAYS IMPROVE THE USE OF THE TUNNEL THROUGHPUT.

OF

CONSIDERED WOULD BE TRYING TO

MUN RIVER, SIR "BUT BEFORE THE

TURNING TO THE POLLUTION PROBLEM OF THE SHING DAVID SAID THE AREA WOULD SOON BE A RECREATIONAL ASSET, IT CAN PLAY ITS FULL POTENTIAL, IT WILL BE NECESSARY TO DEAL WITH PROBLEM OF POLLUTION IN THE RIVER.

HE NOTED THAT THE FIRST STEPS HAD ALREADY BEEN WITH THE PROBLEM.

TAKEN ΤΟ DEAL

WHEN ASKED TO COMMENT ON THE PUBLIC'S PAPER, SIR DAVID SAID THAT "THERE HAS BEEN A MASSIVE RESPONSE"

RESPONSE TO THE

GREEN

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