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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1988

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HK'S TRANSPORT SYSTEM IS CAREFULLY PLANNED

HONG KONG'S EFFICIENT HIGHWAY AND PUBLIC TRANSPORT SYSTEM IS

PLANNING BY THE RESULT OF CAREFUL AND THOROUGH ADVANCE THE SECRETARY FOR TRANSPORT, MR MICHAEL LEUNG, SAID TODAY

A

GOVERNMENT, (SATURDAY).

HONG KONG" AT LEUNG SAID THAT DESPITE HONG KONG'S TRANSPORT

A

SEMINAR

SYSTEM WAS

SPEAKING ON "TRANSPORT PLANNING IN ORGANISED BY MEETING POINT, MR COMPLAINTS ABOUT CONGESTION, EFFICIENT.

OCCASIONAL

OTHER DENSITY.

THE SYSTEM WAS COMPARABLE IF NOT

HONG CITIES OF THE WORLD GIVEN

BETTER THAN THOSE OF MANY

VERY HIGH KONG'S

POPULATION

YEARS THE GOVERNMENT

-

HAD

MR LEUNG POINTED OUT THAT OVER THE

ALL INVESTED BILLIONS OF DOLLARS ON MASSIVE AND AMBITIOUS PROJECTS

ROAD PLANNED AND IMPLEMENTED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE VARIOUS LONG TERM

THE

PAPER 1979 WHITE AND RAIL STUDIES AND

INTERNAI, TRANSPORT

POLICY.

PUBLIC

TRANSPORT

SERVICES

AS A

ON

CONSEQUENCE

WERE

EXPANDED AND

CONSIDERABLY THROUGH THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE MASS TRANSIT RAILWAY THE ELECTRIFICATION OF THE KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.

THE TRAVEL DEMAND, NOW RUNNING AT 9.4 MILLION DAILY PASSENGERS, CONTINUED TO GROW.

THE TODAY REQUIRED

THAT NONE OF THE FACT MR LEUNG ALSO EMPHASISED

MODES IN OPERATION MULTIFARIOUS

TRANSPORT SUBSIDY FROM THE TAXPAYER FOR THEIR OPERATION.

PUBLIC

SUCCESSFUL COMBINATION OF AND CO-ORDINATION PRESERVE AS WE GO ON

SUCH CHARACTERISTICS REFLECTED THE PRIVATE SECTOR INITIATIVES AND GOVERNMENT MONITORING, WHICH HE STRESSED, "WE INTEND TO DEVELOPING OUR TRANSPORT SYSTEM.

It

то CONTINUE WITH

MR LEUNG SAID THE GOVERNMENT WAS DETERMINED PLANS TO EXPAND THE TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE BEING IDENTIFIED SECOND COMPREHENSIVE TRANSPORT STUDY (CTS-2).

BY THE

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