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WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 1989

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LONG TERM TRANSPORT STRATEGY OUTLINED IN GREEN PAPER

IN

TABLED THE SECRETARY FOR TRANSPORT, THE HON MICHAEL LEUNG,

ON TRANSPORT THI LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY WEDNESDAY) A GREEN PAPER

SETTING

A POLICY IN HONG KONG.

OUT FOR PUBLIC CONSULTATION

LONG SYSTEM MOVING INTO THE TEIM STRATEGY TO KEEP HONG KONG'S TRANSPORT 21ST CENTURY.

OF THE CONSULTATIVE MR LEUNG EMPHASISED THAT THE PUBLICATION

WAS

TO A NEED

CHANGE THE DOCUMENT DID NOT MEAN THAT THERE PRINCIPLES OF HONG KONG'S TRANSPORT POLICY.

BASIC

— —

THE 1979 WHITE HE SAID THE THREE BASIC PRINCIPLES SET OUT IN

ΤΟ TIME TEST OF

IMPROVE THE PAPER HAD STOOD THE

TRANSPORT AND ΤΟ MAKE INFRASTRUCTURE; TO EXPAND AND IMPROVE PUBLIC TRANSPORT; MORE ECONOMIC USE OF THE ROAD SYSTEM.

SUCCESS

BECAUSE CONTINUOUS FORWARD PLANNING WAS THE KEY TO OUR IN COPING WITH THE RAPID GROWTH IN TRANSPORT DEMAND AND TO REVIEW THE STRATEGY TO MEET FUTURE CHALLENGES, THE SECOND COMPREHENSIVE TRANSPORT STUDY (CTS-21 WAS COMMISSIONED IN 1986, HE SAID.

AND UP ΤΟ 1988, CENT.

PUBLIC TRANSPORT AND THE TOTAL VOLUME OF

HE POINTED OUT THAT SINCE THE CTS-1 IN 1976

PER FLEET INCREASED BY 75 THE VEHICLE PATRONAGE INCREASED BY ABOUT 65 PER CENT. TRAVEL MORE THAN DOUBLED.

THE GOVERNMENT REMAINED COMMITTED TO A COMPREHENSIVE TERM INFRASTRUCTURE BUILDING PROGRAMME, HE SAID.

AND LONG

MR LEUNG RECALLED THAT MOST OF THE PROJECTS RECOMMENDED BY CTS-1 IN 1976 HAD BEEN COMPLETED.

THE

IN

RAIL PROJECTS OUTLINED

TOTAL INVESTMENT OF $29 THE NEW TOWNS AND CROSSINGS AND CROSS

FOR THE NEXT DECADE, THE ROAD AND THE GREEN PAPER WOULD REQUIRE AN ESTIMATED BILLION TO MEET THE ANTICIPATED NEED FOR LINKING

HARBOUR ADDITIONAL THE URBAN AREAS. PROVIDING BORDER ROUTES.

HOWEVER, MR LEUNG STRESSED: "WE SIMPLY CANNOT OUT OF CONGESTION.

"

RAIL

BUILD OURSELVES

BECOME

THAT

MORE HE SAID

AND ROAD

HAD CONSTRUCTION

AS EXPENSIVE AND DIFFICULT. "ALSO, WE CANNOT BUILD INDISCRIMINATELY.

AND IMPROVING OUR CONSIDERATION WILL NEED TO BE GIVEN TO PRESERVING ENVIRONMENT.

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WHICH WOULD CONTINUE TRANSPORT STRATEGY, MR LEUNG SYSTEM WAS SECOND TO NONE IN

TURNING TO THE PUBLIC TRANSPORT SYSTEM, TO BE ONE OF THE KEY ELEMENTS OF THE

PUBLIC TRANSPORT SAID HONG KONG'S

PROVIDING A COMPREHENSIVE NETWORK, WITH A REASONABLE FARES.

WIDE CHOICE OF MODES AT

"DESPITE HEAVY