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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1987

LIGHT RAIL

ANOTHER AREA OF PARTICULAR INTEREST TO HIM WAS THE TRANSIT SYSTEM IN THE NORTHWESTERN PART OF THE NEW TERRITORIES.

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THAT THE LRT HE SAID: "WE HAVE JUST LEARNED THE WELCOME NEWS

LINK TO

SHUT WAI. TIN

BE WE

NOT

CAUGHT WILL PROVIDE A

SHOULD UNPREPARED WHEN THE NEW TOWN DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME AT TIN SHUI WAI IS SIZE TREMENDOUSLY IN THAT COMPLETE, WHICH WILL BOOST THE POPULATION DISTRICT."

TO REACH A DECISION RAIL LINK BETWEEN THE WITH THE MAIN URBAN AREA

HE ALSO NOTED THAT THE GOVERNMENT HOPED

FIXED THE

OF A PROVISION CONCERNING NORTHWESTERN PART OF THE NEW TERRITORIES BEFORE THE END OF NEXT YEAR. HE CONSIDERED THIS SHOULD BE TREATED AS A MATTER OF URGENCY.

ON PORT

AND

AIRPORT

MR DEVELOPMENTS,

IT JOINT PORT AND AIRPORT DEVELOPMENT DISAPPOINTING TO HEAR THAT THE

ALMOST TWO STUDY WOULD ONLY BE COMPLETED BY THE LATE SUMMER OF 1989,

WOULD GOVERNMENT

BE ABLE ΤΟ MAKE SOME YEARS AWAY. ONLY THEN THE 'FUNDAMENTAL DECISIONS'.

HO

SAID

WAS

ON

KAI TAK AIRPORT, WITH ITS SINGLE RUNWAY, DEFINITELY

THE ONLY QUESTION WAS HOW MEET THE FUTURE DEMAND FOR AIR TRAFFIC.

BEFORE IT REACHED

FULL CAPACITY, LONG COULD IT HOLD ADVERSE EFFECTS BEGAN TO EMERGE, HE SAID.

COULD NOT

ITS

AND

"THE URGENCY FOR A REPLACEMENT FACT THAT THE PRESENT KAI NOISE

PROBLEMS, POLLUTION DEVELOPMENT POTENTIAL OF KOWLOON,

F

AIRPORT TAI AIRPORT HAS

ΤΟ MENTION NOT

HE SAID.

IS BEEN THE

AUGMENTED CREATING HINDRANCE

BY THE NUMEROUS

ΤΟ

THE

FINALLY,

HE POINTED OUT THAT RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HONG CLOSER.

AS

KONG AND CHINA

1997 WOULD

DREW

NEAR,

INEVITABLY

THE BECOME

ALL OUR LARGE SCALE PROJECTS IN THE YEARS AHEAD WOULD

THE IMPACT BE CONSIDERED AGAINST

OF.

DEVELOPMENT IN CHINA, PARTICULARLY IN

THIS

WAS ESPECIALLY

SIGNIFICANT

COMMUNICATION, AVIATION AND TRADE.

HAVE ΤΟ WITH, AND THE RELATIONSHIP THE PEARL RIVER DELTA AREA.

AREAS IN

LIKE TRANSPORT,

WHICH WE MUST TAKE

INTO ACCOUNT IN MAPPING OUT PROJECTS, HE NOTED.

THE CHINA FACTOR WAS THEREFORE SOMETHING

THE PLANS FOR OUR

FUTURE

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DEVELOPMENT