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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1989

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MEASURES TAKEN TO REDUCE FREIGHT TRAIN NOISE

SEVERAL THE KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY CORPORATION HAS IMPLEMENTED

THE SECRETARY MEASURES TO REDUCE FREIGHT TRAIN NOISE AFTER MIDNIGHT,

TOLD THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL FOR TRANSPORT, THE HON MICHAEL LEUNG, TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

REPLYING TO A QUESTION FROM THE HON PEGGY LAM,

MR LEUNG SAID

THESE MEASURES INCLUDED:

*

INSTALLING

NEW SILENCERS

THE ON

OF EXHAUSTS

DIESEL ΤΟ BE CONDUCTED

LOCOMOTIVES, PENDING THE RESULTS OF TESTS ON THEIR EFFECTIVENESS;

* REDUCING THE NUMBER OF

TRAIN FREIGHT THREE DURING THE PERIOD BETWEEN 11 PM TO FROM NEXT MONTH; AND

PATHS FROM

FOUR

ΤΟ

2 AM WITH EFFECT

REDUCE

THE

* LUBRICATING THE RAIL TRACKS AT STRATEGIC LOCATIONS TO

THE LEVEL OF NOISE CAUSED BY THE WHEEL AND RAIL INTERACTION.

PART OF A CONTINUING EXERCISE, MR LEUNG ADDED THAT AS

IDENTIFY CORPORATION HAD ESTABLISHED A RAILWAY NOISE WORKING GROUP TO

AND IMPLEMENT THEM OTHER NOISE-REDUCING MEASURES, AND THEN EVALUATE WHENEVER PRACTICABLE.

HAD ASKED

WHETHER

ANY

ACTION

WOULD

MRS LAM MINIMISE THE NOISE NUISANCE CAUSED BY FREIGHT TRAINS 11 PM AND 2 AM AND BY TRAINS PASSING THROUGH THE AREAS WAI END OF THE BEACON HILL TUNNEL.

BE TAKEN TO RUNNING BETWEEN NEAR THE TAI

EDUCATION COMMISSION TO RECONSIDER MINIMUM PRIMARY SCHOOL ENTRY AGE

*

NOW STUDYING THE CURRICULA AND THE EDUCATION COMMISSION IS

YEARS OF FREE AND COMPULSORY BEHAVIOURAL PROBLEMS DURING THE NINE

AND MANPOWER, EDUCATION

THE HON RON EDUCATION, THE SECRETARY FOR BRIDGE, SAID IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

WOULD

ENTRY

THE HON DAVID CHEUNG CHI-KONG, IN REPLY TO A QUESTION FROM MR BRIDGE SAID THAT IN THE CONTEXT OF THE STUDY THE COMMISSION RECONSIDER WHETHER IT WAS DESIRABLE TO LOWER THE MINIMUM AGE OF TO PRIMARY SCHOOLS.

WAS THAT FIVE YEARS AND THE AGE OF

MR BRIDGE ALSO POINTED OUT THAT THE PRESENT POSITION CHILDREN MIGHT START PRIMARY SCHOOL FROM THE AGE OF EIGHT MONTHS, THOUGH ATTENDANCE WAS NOT COMPULSORY UNTIL SIX.

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