XN000022-1991-10-14 — Page 9

MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1991

IN ADDITION TO THE LONG ESTABLISHED ROAD OPENING CO-ORDINATING REGIONAL OFFICES, COMMITTEE IN EACH OF THE THREE HIGHWAYS DEPARTMENT

THE NEW TERRITORIES, RESPECTIVELY FOR HONG KONG ISLAND, KOWLOON AND

BY GOVERNMENT AND PRIVATE UTILITY TWO COMMITTEES HAD BEEN FORMED UNDERTAKERS AT DIFFERENT LEVELS TO ENHANCE CO-ORDINATION AMONG THEM.

HE

AT TOP GROUP FORMED AT JOINT SAID THE

UTILITIES POLICY

POLICIES. MANAGEMENT LEVEL PROVIDED A FORUM FOR DISCUSSION ON UTILITY

THIS GROUP BY MR KWB1 THE HIGHWAYS DEPARTMENT WAS REPRESENTED AT HIMSELF.

A

TECHNICAL UTILITIES

AT

SENIOR

REPRESENTATIVES

LIAISON

COMMITTEE

BY

FORMED STRENGTHENED THE UNDERTAKERS TO IMPROVE 90 THAT DISRUPTION TO THE

MANAGEMENT LEVEL, CO-ORDINATION AND CO-OPERATION OF UTILITY PROCEDURAL AS WELL AS TECHNICAL MATTERS GENERAL PUBLIC CAN BE MINIMISED.

ON THE REGIONAL ROAD OPENING CO-ORDINATING COMMITTEE, IT COMPRISED REPRESENTATIVES

DEPARTMENTS

ALL FROM INCLUDING THE GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT AND OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES.

UTILITY COMPANIES, POLICE AND THE

HE SAID RELEVANT TRANSPORT

DEPARTMENT WHICH PROPOSED EACH UTILITY COMPANY OR GOVERNMENT

PROGRAMME EVERY MONTH CARRY

WORK PREPARED OUT EXCAVATION DETAILING WORKS IN HAND AND ALSO THOSE IN THE PLANNING STAGE.

TO

A

THE HIGHWAYS MR KWEI SAID THESE PROGRAMMES WERE FORWARDED TO

RESPECTIVE REGION FOR COLLATION REGIONAL OFFICE IN THEIR

INTO AN OVERALL PROGRAMME WHICH WAS TO BE DISCUSSED BY THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS.

THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS EXERCISK

PUBLIC

WAS TO

BLIMINATE UNNECESSARY

DISTURBANCE ΤΟ THE

TO TRAFFIC AND DISRUPTION AND KERP

OPENINGS WERE SO PROGRAMMED PEDESTRIANS TO A MINIMUM. WHERE POSSIBLE, OPENINGS WERE SO THAT A SINGLE TRENCH SERVED MORE THAN ONE UTILITY SERVICE.

IN MONITORING ROAD OPENING DATA ASSOCIATED WITH UTILITY

BEEN COMPUTERISED. RECENTLY

MR KWEI SAID ANOTHER IMPROVEMENT WAS THAT THE STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL OF OPENINGS INFRINGEMENTS TO THE PERMIT CONDITIONS COULD BE RAPIDLY DETECTED.

AND

PERMIT

CONDITIONS

THAT A

HAD

FURTHER STEP

WAS

ADDED

NOW BEING COMPUTERISE THE MONTHLY PROGRAMME OF TRENCIL WORKS.

TAKEN

ΤΟ

THE DIRECTOR OF HIGHWAYS STRESSED THAT AS A MATTER OF POLICY, CONSTRUCTED OR ROAD OPENINGS WOULD NOT BE PERMITTED IN A CARRIAGEWAY

FIVE YEARS AND IN A CARRIAGEWAY RESURFACED RECONSTRUCTED WITHIN WITHIN ONE YEAR.

FAULTS,

HAD

HOWEVER, EMERGENCY OPENINGS WERE PERMITTED TO RECTIFY RESTORE SERVICES OR INSTALLING ADDITIONAL SERVICES THAT COULD NOT BERN ANTICIPATED PROVIDED NO PRACTICABLE ALTERNATIVE EXISTED.

IN

RESPONSE

'TO

PUBLIC

OPENINGS IN THE SAME PLACE, MR KWEI

CRITICISM

SAID

REGARDING

REPEATED

ROAD

SOME EMERGENCY OPENINGS MIGHT HAPPEN IN THE SOME PLANNED ROAD OPENINGS.

ONE EXPLANATION WAS

VICINITY OR SOON

THAT

AFTER

/OR SOMETIMES,