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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1988

BOARDING AND ALIGHTING RESTRICTIONS IN TRANSIT SERVICE AREA

LONG EUR

THE TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT REMINDED BUS PASSENGERS IN YUEN AND TUEN MUN THAT FROM BUNDAY (SEPTEMBER 25), KMB'S EXTERNAL ROUTES THAT OPERATE TO AND FROM THE TRANSIT SERVICE AREA WILL BEGIN ENFORCING BOARDING AND ALIGHTING RESTRICTIONS.

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STARTING FROM SEPTEMBER 25, KMB BUSES ON LEAVING THE TRANSIT SERVICE AREA WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO SET DOWN PASSENGERS UNTIL THEY HAVE LEFT THE AREA, BUT BOARDINGS WILL BE ALLOWED.

BE PERMITTED

BUSES ENTERING THE TRANSIT SERVICE AREA WILL NOT TO PICK UP PASSENGERS WITHIN THE AREA, BUT MAY BET DOWN PASSENGERS.

57M, 58M. 66M, 66X, 67M,

THE AFFECTED BUS ROUTES ARE NOS. 52, 52M, 63, 54, 59A, 59M, 598, 59X, 60, 60M, 60X, 61X, 62X, 64K, 66, 68, 68A, 68M, 68X, 76K AND 77K.

ON THE SAME DAY, THE KOWLOON-CANTON OPERATE ALL ITS FEEDER BUS ROUTES TO CATER DEMAND WITHIN THE TRANSIT SERVICE AREA.

RAILWAY FOR THE

CORPORATION WILL

INTERNAL TRAVEL

THE NORTH-WEST TRANSIT SERVICE AREA COVERS THE PART OF YURN LONG AND TUEN MUN DISTRICTS IN BETWEEN THE AU TAU ROUNDABOUT AND TAI LÀM CHUNG.

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A SPOKESMAN FOR THE TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT SAID THAT BOARDING AND ALIGHTING RESTRICTIONS ARE TO ENSURE THAT the use of THE LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT SYSTEM WILL BE MAXIMISED FOR INTERNAL TRAVEL IN THE TRANSIT SERVICE AREA SO THAT PASSENGERS MAY BENEFIT FROM GREATER ECONOMY OF OPERATION.

KMB HAS PUT UP INFORMATION NOTICES AT THE AFFECTED BUS STOPS, DISPLAYED STICKERS WITHIN THE VEHICLES AND ASKED THEIR BUS CAPTAINS TO ADVISE THE PASSENGERS OF THE CHANGES.

ALSO FROM SUNDAY, GREEN MINIBUS ROUTES NO. 44 (LUNG KWU TAN SAN CHING STREET, TUEN MUN AREA 10) AND NO. 74A (LONG PING ESTATE FOOK HONG STREET, YUEN LONG TOWN) WILL BE REPLACED BY THE LRT FEEDER ROUTES NO. 520 (LUNG KWU TAN TUEN MUN FERRY PIER) AND NO. 670 (LONG PING ESTATE FOOK HONG STREET, YUEN LONG TOWN) RESPECTIVELY.

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AT THE SAME TIME, GREEN MINIBUS ROUTE NO. 43 (SEAVIEWS GARDEN TO TUEN MUN PIER HEAD) WILL BE RE-ORGANISED TO OPERATE BETWEEN 80 KWUN WAT AND SAN CHING STREET IN TUEN MUN TOWN centre.

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