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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1989

"WITH A 12-AND-A-HALF HOUR WORKING DAY, THE NEW

OF 15,750 VEHICLES, HAVE A DAILY PROCESSING CAPACITY TOTAL CAPACITY OF THE CROSSING POINTS, LOK MA CHAU, SHA TAU KOK TO AROUND 28,000 VEHICLES PER DAY,

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FACILITY WILL

BRINGING

THE MAN KAM TO AND MR BARNES SAID.

"THIS SHOULD PREVENT CONGESTION PROBLEMS UNTIL AT LEAST

1995,"

HE ADDED.

THEREAFTER, PHASE II OF LOK MA CHAU WOULD PROVIDE CAPACITY A FURTHER 11,250 VEHICLES PER DAY.

FOR

ANALYSIS OF TRAFFIC AT MAN MR BARNES SAID THAT AN

KAM TO PEAK IN THE MORNING, EXTENDING SHOWED THAT THERE WAS A NORTHBOUND

AFTERNOON INTO THE EARLY AFTERNOON, AND A SOUTHBOUND PEAK IN THE LATE AND EARLY EVENING.

'WHILE THERE MIGHT BE ADDITIONAL

DEMAND FOR CROSSINGS AFTER DURING 8 PM. IT SEEMS UNLIKELY THAT THERE WOULD BE SIGNIFICANT DEMAND THE NIGHT, " HE SAID.

MR BARNES ALSO SAID THAT PRESENT PRACTICAL DIFFICULTIES.

EXTENDING THE OPENING HOURS WOULD

SYSTEM AS CUSTOMS AND IMMIGRATION CURRENTLY WORKED A TWO-SHIFT

IT WOULD MEAN AT MAN KAM TO AND SHA TAU KOK,

ADDITIONAL STAFF AND

SPLIT SHIFTS.

HOWEVER, THE SITUATION AT THE BORDER CROSSING POINTS MONITORED, MR BARNES SAID.

WOULD BE

OPENING HOURS WOULD IT MIGHT BE THAT THE OPTION OF EXTENDING NEED TO BE CONSIDERED BEFORE PHASE II OF LOK MA CHAU REACHED CAPACITY.

2000, IF NO HE ADDED.

"ON CURRENT PROJECTIONS THIS WILL BE IN THE YEAR FURTHER EXPANSION OF THE FACILITIES IS UNDERTAKEN,

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TESTS CARRIED OUT ON HOSPITAL OXYGEN TANKS

*

THE MEDICAL AND HEALTH

TANKS AND

DEPARTMENT HAS IN EVERY WELFARE,

SINCE LAST SATURDAY,

ON

OXYGEN

CYLINDERS CARRIED

ALL OUT TESTS GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL AND CLINIC, THE SECRETARY FOR HEALTH AND THE HON T.H. CHAU, TOLD THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

MR CHAU AND CYLINDERS

REPLYING TO A QUESTION FROM DR THE HON LEONG CHE-HUNG, SAID, "AS A RESULT, I CAN CONFIRM THAT ALL THESE TANKS CONTAIN OXYGEN OF THE SPECIFIED QUALITY.

/"I CAN