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For the financial year 1995/96, government investment in the airport and related projects, including expenditure from the Capital Works Reserve Fund, and equity injections into the Provisional Airport Authority and the Mass Transit Railway Corporation, amounts to about $32 billion. This represents about 3 per cent of the forecast level of GDP in 1995.

End/Wednesday, July 26, 1995

Footbridge covers to MTR station soon be built

Following is a question by the Hon Szeto Wah and a written reply by the Secretary for Transport, Mr Haider Barma, in the Legislative Council today (Wednesday):

Question:

At a meeting which I held with the Mass Transit Railway Corporation (MTRC) and the relevant Government departments regarding the provision of cover for the two footbridges connecting Lower Ngau Tau Kok Estate and Kowloon Bay MTR station, the MTRC agreed to bear part of the building costs of the cover while the departments concerned undertook to carry out the building work and set the dates for the commencement and completion of the project. However, there has been no sign of any work being carried out long after the work was due to commence. I have enquired about the progress and been given a new commencement date. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council of:

(a) the reasons for the delay of the project;

(b)

the exact date for the commencement of the work; and

(c)

the date of completion of the project?