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SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 1988

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NEW LICENCES FOR URBAN AND NT TAXIS TO BE ISSUED

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THE

ENDORSED RECOMMENDATIONS BY

NUMBER OF URBAN AND NEW

THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL HAS TRANSPORT ADVISORY COMMITTEE THAT A SMALL TERRITORIES TAXI LICENCES BE ISSUED EACH YEAR.

SPOKESMAN SAID MORE THAN TERRITORIES

ANNOUNCING THIS TODAY (SATURDAY), A GOVERNMENT THAT THE ISSUE OF NEW LICENCES FOR URBAN TAXIS WILL NOT BE

OF NEW LICENCES FOR NEW 200 PER YEAR, WHILE THE ISSUE TAXIS WILL BE 100 PER YEAR.

OF LICENCES FOR LANTAU THE PRESENT MORATORIUM ON THE NUMBER TAXIS WILL REMAIN AT 40 FOR TWO YEARS UNTIL JULY 1990.

COUNCIL DECIDED TO FREEZE IN JULY 1986 THE GOVERNOR IN NUMBER OF NT TAXIS AT 2,638 AND THE NUMBER OF LANTAU TAXIS AT 40, TO CONTINUE THE ISSUE OF 200 NEW URBAN TAXI LICENCES PER YEAR FOR YEARS. THE CEILING FOR URBAN TAXIS WAS THEN SET AT 14,400.

THE

BUT

TWO

VEHICLES

IN

NUMBER THE LATEST DECISION WILL LIMIT THE

OF MOTOR WHICH MAY BE REGISTERED AS TAXIS FOR THE NEXT TWO YEARS TO 14,800 THE URBAN AREA AND 2,838 IN THE NEW TERRITORIES.

THE LIMITS WILL BE REVIEWED FROM TIME TO TIME, SPOKESMAN SAID.

THE GOVERNMENT

TAXI

THE DECISION WAS BASED ON THE RECOMMENDATIONS MADE BY THE POLICY REVIEW SUB-COMMITTEE OF THE TRANSPORT ADVISORY COMMITTEE, WHICH WAS SET UP IN JULY 1986 TO CARRY OUT AN OVERALL REVIEW POLICY, HE ADDED.

"IN

THE RECOMMENDATIONS,

AN PROVIDE

ADEQUATE

OF TAXI

SUB-COMMITTEE

SUBMITTING THE IF IMPORTANT TO CONSIDERED

SUPPLY OF TAXI ROAD CONGESTION. SERVICES TO THE PUBLIC WITHOUT CAUSING UNACCEPTABLE

OF TAXI OPERATION WAS ALSO TAKEN INTO THE FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE ACCOUNT, HE SAID.

GIVEN THE RAPID GROWTH IN TAXI TRAFFIC IN RECENT YEARS AND FOUND THE SUB-COMMITTEE CURRENT STATE OF ROAD CONGESTION,

TAXI LICENCES TO ВЕ ISSUED IN JUSTIFICATION FOR NEW URBAN QUANTITIES.

THE

NO

LARGE

TAXI SERVICES WILL BE HOWEVER, TO ENSURE THAT THE SUPPLY OF

NOT MORE ABLE TO COPE WITH THE GROWTH IN DEMAND, IT RECOMMENDED THAT

CONTINUE TO BE ISSUED THAN 200 NEW LICENCES FOR URBAN TAXIS SHOULD EVERY YEAR,

LICENCES FOR

AT BIDDING

EACH TENDER SURVEYS ON TAXI THE SPOKESMAN

"THE ACTUAL NUMBER OF EXERCISE WILL BE DETERMINED ON THE BASIS OF REGULAR AVAILABILITY CARRIED OUT BY THE TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT,

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SAID.

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