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TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 1989

SHA INTO

SIR DAVID LATER VISITED WHITEHEAD DETENTION CENTRE, PEOPLE HAD TO CONTINUING LARGE INFLUX OF VBP.

BE CROWDED

AND INSPECTED FACILITIES AT THE TIN, WHERE 6,500 VIETNAMESE BOAT BLOCKS AND TENTS

ог BECAUSE

THE

HE PAID TRIBUTE TO STAFF OF THE CORRECTIONAL SERVICES DEPARTMENTS DEPARTMENT, THE POLICE, THE CIVIL AID SERVICES AND OTHER INVOLVED FOR THEIR HARD WORK UNDER DIFFICULT EMERGENCY CONDITIONS IN OPERATING THE WHITEHEAD AND OTHER DETENTION CENTRES AND REFUGEE CAMPS,

IN

THE ARCHITECTURAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT HAS ALSO BEEN PUTTING SPECIAL EFFORTS IN CAPITAL WORKS AND THE PROVISION OF SECURITY FENCES, ELECTRICITY AND WATER SUPPLY, DRAINAGE AND OTHER ANCILIARY FACILITIES FOR EMERGENCY VBP ACCOMMODATION,

SINCE JANUARY THIS YEAR, THERE HAVE BEEN A TOTAL OF 18,122 ARRIVALS, AN INCREASE OF 10,586 OVER THE SAME PERIOD LAST YEAR.

VBP

PUBLIC URGED TO SPEAK UP ON TRANSPORT POLICY

* * * * *

(TUESDAY)

THE SECRETARY FOR TRANSPORT, MR MICHAEL LEUNG, TODAY URGED THE PUBLIC TO SPEAK UP ON THE TRANSPORT POLICY GREEN PAPER.

MR

LEUNG

SAID

PUBLIC

THE

WERE

NECESSARY

AND

ΤΟ ACCEPTABILITY

HELP

THE

OF

THE

VIEWS GOVERNMENT DETERMINE

PRACTICABILITY PROPOSED MEASURES SET OUT IN THE GREEN PAPER.

A'T

MIND ON THE MANAGEMENT MEASURES THE GOVERNMENT HAD AN OPEN OUTLINED IN THE CONSULTATIVE DOCUMENT, HE EMPHASISED WHEN SPEAKING A LUNCH MEETING OF THE LIONS CLUB OF SOUTH KOWLOON.

PUBLIC DURING THE NEXT FOUR MONTHS VIEWS EXPRESSED BY THE

THE BASIS OF FORMULATING LONG-TERM ENDING IN SEPTEMBER WOULD FORM TRANSPORT POLICIES UP TO THE 21ST CENTURY.

EARLIER

HIS

LEUNG

TWO COMMON DISPELLED

AND PLANNING: THAT BUILDING MORE ROADS WOULD

IN

MR SPEECH, MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT GOVERNMENT TRANSPORT POLICY LONG-TERM PLANNING WAS LACKING, AND THAT SOLVE TRAFFIC PROBLEMS.

HE SAID THE GOVERNMENT

KONG THE LONG TERM

TOOK POSITIVE ACTION IN SYSTEMATIC, LONG-TERM PLANNING IN THE 1960'S WITH THE COMPLETION OF THE HONG PASSENGER TRANSPORT STUDY, THE MASS TRANSIT STUDY AND ROAD STUDY.

THE FIRST COMPREHENSIVE TRANSPORT STUDY (CTS-1)

WAS COMPLETED

IN 1976.

/IT PRODUCED

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