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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1992

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SCHOOLS

ARE MERITS

AND

ARE WHEN THESE BASIC REQUIREMENTS

MET AND NEW AVAILABLE FOR ALLOCATION TO SPONSORS, SELECTION IS MADE ON THE OF INDIVIDUAL APPLICANTS, HAVING REGARD TO EACH ORGANISATION'S EXPERIENCE IN EDUCATION, FINANCIAL CONDITION AND THE NUMBER LOCALITY OF SCHOOLS IT IS ALREADY OPERATING, HE SAID.

ARE "OTHER FACTORS

ALSO TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT, SUCH AS RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION OF THE APPLICANT, THE NEED EXISTING SCHOOLS, AS WELL AS ANY SPECIAL ORGANISATION AND THE DISTRICT CONCERNED, HE ADDED.

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THE

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MEASURES TO REDUCE TRAFFIC CONGESTION AT MAN KAM TO

A

HAVE

BEEN

INTRODUCED

ARE

BEING MAN KAM CHAU

MEASURES NUMBER

OR OF ACTIVELY PURSUED TO FURTHER REDUCE TRAFFIC CONGESTION AT THE

OPENING OF THE LOK MA TO BORDER CROSSING FOLLOWING THE FULL CROSSING.

THE

SECRETARY FOR

TRANSPORT,

MR MICHAEL

LEUNG,

TOLD THE

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL THIS TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

LEUNG IN A WRITTEN REPLY TO A QUESTION BY THE HON RITA FAN, MR

NEW CROSS-BORDER VEHICLE SAID THESE MEASURES INCLUDED THE ISSUE OF

PROCESSING PERMITS ONLY FOR THE LOK MA CHAU CROSSING, SPEEDING UP THE TIME FOR VEHICLES AND FURTHER DIVERSION OF VEHICLES TO LOK MA CHAU.

OF LOK MA MR LEUNG EXPLAINED THAT SINCE THE OPERATING PERIOD

A HALF HOURS CHAU BORDER CROSSING WAS EXTENDED FROM EIGHT TO 12 AND

CROSSINGS HAD INCREASED FROM UNDER PER DAY, THE NUMBER OF VEHICLE 5,000 TO MORE THAN 5,500 PER DAY.

"THIS

HAS

RESULTED MAINLY

FROM

THE

INCREASED UTILISATION CONTINUED DIVERSION OF VEHICLES FROM MAN KAM TO TO LOK MA CHAU,

"FOR A WHILE, THIS SEEMED TO HAVE EASED THE CONGESTION AT MAN KAM TO,

TO USE

THAT

PROBLEM

DRIVERS OF "HOWEVER, TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE REDUCED TRAFFIC,

MAN KAM TO HAVE BEEN GOODS VEHICLES WITH PERMITS

MAKING

ADDITIONAL

MAINTAINING THEREBY CROSSING, THROUGHPUT CLOSE TO ITS PRACTICAL CAPACITY OF 9,700 VEHICLES A DAY.

TRIPS

THROUGH

"PEAK HOUR CONGESTION HAS THEREFORE

SAID.

REMAINED A PROBLEM,

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OFFICIALS ON

BOTH ABOUT

MR LEUNG SAID SINCE NOVEMBER 19 LAST YEAR, SIDES HAD BEEN PROCESSING VEHICLES AT MAN KAM TO AT THE RATE OF 200 TO 250 PER HALF HOUR.

"THIS IMPROVED RATE HAS AND THE ASSOCIATED WAITING TIME. PERMANENT."

SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCED QUEUE LENGTHS THE NEW ARRANGEMENT HAS NOW BECOME

/ON FURTHER