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WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1991

OF THE

IT WAS IN THE INTERESTS PIERS SIR

SAID CLEARLY COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE IF THOSE IN A POSITION TO DO SO COULD RESIST TEMPTATION TO RAISE PRICES IN THE EXPECTATION OF FURTHER INFLATION.

THE

HAD

IN INTEREST ON HOW THE UPWARD REVISION OF INTEREST RATE BY ONE PERCENT

INCREASE

REVENUE AFFECTED THE PUBLIC COFFER, SIR PIERS SAID THE

INTEREST IN RATES BY ONE PER CENT HAD BENEFITTED THE GOVERNMENT'S GENERAL

BY A DEPOSITS IN THE EXCHANGE FUND EARNINGS.

INCREASE MARGINAL

CONTINGENCY PLANS EXIST FOR TRANSPORT BREAKDOWNS

*

THE TRANSPORT

WITH MASS TRANSIT

MEASURES ORDER

TO COPE ΤΟ MINIMISE AND REVIEWING

HAS CONTINGENCY DEPARTMENT BREAKDOWNS AND ACCIDENTS IN INCONVENIENCE TO THE PUBLIC AND IS CLOSELY MONITORING CONTINGENCY PROCEDURES IN THE LIGHT OF EXPERIENCE.

SECRETARY

FOR TRANSPORT,

BY THE HON

THIS WAS THE ASSURANCE GIVEN BY THE THE HON MICHAEL LEUNG, IN A WRITTEN REPLY TO A QUESTION PEGGY LAM IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

MEASURES

FOR RAPID TO DEAL ALTERNATIVE AT POTENTIAL PROBLEM

INCLUDE PROCEDURES THE CONTINGENCY DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION DURING EMERGENCIES, STRATEGIES WITH DIFFERENT EMERGENCY SITUATIONS, AND CO-ORDINATION OF

PASSENGER CONGESTION TRANSPORT LOCATIONS.

ΤΟ RELIEVE

HOWEVER, MR LEUNG

STRESSED THAT

MEASURES CONTINGENCY WHILE

EMERGENCIES ON THE AND

BY BREAKDOWNS

HELPED MINIMISE THE ADVERSE IMPACT OF TRANSPORT

INCONVENIENCE CAUSED PUBLIC,

DELAYS AND SOME ACCIDENTS IN THE MASS TRANSIT SERVICES WERE INEVITABLE.

ARE SYSTEMS TRANSPORT PUBLIC KONG'S "HONG

FULLY UTILISED ON THE KOWLOON-CANTON TRANSIT RAILWAY 72,000 IN

PEAK HOUR PEAK PERIODS. DURING THE RAILWAY ARE ABOUT 50,000 AND ON THE MASS ONE DIRECTION.

FLOWS

PROVIDED

++

TO EXPECT PASSENGERS WITH IMMEDIATE MR LEUNG SAID.

NOT BE REALISTIC "IT WOULD THEREFORE DISPLACED FROM A MASS TRANSIT SERVICE TO BE AND COMPLETE RELIEF BY OTHER TRANSPORT MODES,

THE SECRETARY ADDED THAT ANY INCIDENT AFFECTING A BREAKDOWN

A RAPID BUILD-UP USUALLY INVOLVED SERVICE TRANSIT MASS PASSENGERS AT POINTS OF DISRUPTION.

A

HOWEVER, HE SAID THE

TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT

OF

OF

A

HAD IDENTIFIED

AND MANAGEMENT AT THOSE NUMBER OF POTENTIAL PROBLEM LOCATIONS, INCLUDING RAILWAY STATIONS

FOR PASSENGERS WAS DEVELOPING DETAILED PLANS LOCATIONS IN CONSULTATION WITH THE POLICE AND THE TRANSPORT OPERATORS.

/THE DEPARTMENT