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MONDAY, MAY 22, 1989

GIVE THEM

PUBLIC

PERMITS THE CIVIL AVIATION DEPARTMENT HAD AGREED TO ISSUE MORE

MORE FLEXIBILITY IN THEIR FOR THE OMNIBUS OPERATORS TO

A WORKING OPERATION. THE DEPARTMENT ALSO SUGGESTED THE SETTING UP OF

AND OF THE CIVIL AVIATION

TRANSPORT GROUP, COMPRISING OFFICERS

OF THE REPRESENTATIVES

OMNIBUS OPERATORS DEPARTMENTS,

ΤΟ RESOLVE ANY PROBLEM ASSOCIATION AND THE TRAVEL INDUSTRY COUNCIL

THE PERMIT ISSUING INVOLVED AND TO DISCUSS WAYS OF SIMPLIFYING

ACCOUNT THE INTERESTS PROCEDURES. THE WORKING GROUP COULD TAKE INTO

AND THE CIVIL AVIATION OF ALL THE PARTIES, INCLUDING THE OPERATORS DEPARTMENT, IN PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE SERVICE OF AIR TRAVELLERS.

BEFORE

THE CIVIL AVIATION REVISED, PROCEDURES ARE THE

SUBJECT DEPARTMENT WILL CONTINUE TO PROCESS APPLICATIONS FOR PERMITS

FROM THE TRANSPORT TO THE APPLICANT OBTAINING THE NECESSARY LICENCE DEPARTMENT AND HAS THE GENERAL SUPPORT OF THE TRAVEL INDUSTRY COUNCIL.

THE REPRESENTATIVES WERE ALSO CONCERNED OVER THE PARKING SPACES FOR THEIR COACHES.

THE SHORTAGE

OF

PROVISION OF

PARKING SPACES FOR GOODS KONG, PARTICULAR THE TRANSPORT PROVIDE AS MANY PARKING

MR SO SAID THAT VEHICLES AND BUSES WAS A GENERAL PHENOMENON IN HONG IN TSIM SHA TSUI WHERE THERE WERE MANY HOTELS. HE SAID DEPARTMENT HAD TRIED AND WOULD CONTINUE TO SPACES AS CIRCUMSTANCES PERMITTED.

300

OR

SO ON-STREET COACH PARKING

BE

AT OTHER PROVIDED

PLACES

SPACES,

WHEN

OFF-STREET PARKING SPACES WOULD

IN ADDITION TO

FOUND SUITABLE.

AT THE MEETING, THE

PLANS BY THE KOWLOON MOTOR

то

EXPRESSED INTRODUCE

CONCERN

OVER

DELUXE COACH

REPRESENTATIVES BUS COMPANY SERVICES BETWEEN THE AIRPORT AND HOTELS.

MR SO TOLD THEM THAT KMB HAD ONLY

AIRPORT SERVICES BUT HAD

EXTEND ITS PROPOSAL.

INDICATED

AN

INTENTION ΤΟ

NOT

ANY SUBMITTED

CONCRETE

THREE AIR-CONDITIONED INCREASING NUMBER OF

HE EXPLAINED: "KMB IS ALREADY OPERATING COACH SERVICES TO THE AIRPORT. IN VIEW OF THE

TO EXTEND ITS SERVICES ΤΟ HOTELS IN RECENT YEARS, KMB SEES A NEED PROVIDE PEOPLE USING THE AIRPORT WITH A MORE EFFICIENT AND

TRANSPORTATION.

CONVENIENT

OPERATED BY

"MOREOVER, THE AIR-CONDITIONED COACH SERVICES NOW

FOR INDIVIDUAL USE KMB ARE

CHARGED INDIVIDUALLY. OPERATION IS DIFFERENT FROM THAT OF TOURIST BUSES."

AND

ARE

THEIR

MR SO, HOWEVER, AGREED TO CONSULT THE ASSOCIATION PROPOSALS WERE RECEIVED FROM KMB.

IF CONCRETE

MR SO NOTED THAT SOME OF THE ISSUES RAISED TODAY WERE

ON-GOING PROBLEMS WHICH THE TRANSPORT WERE ABOUT TO ARRIVE AT A CONCLUSION.

IN FACT DEPARTMENT WAS STUDYING AND

/"ONLY IF .................