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Our approach will be to continue to identify and allocate suitable off-street sites for overnight parking. For example, temporary off-street sites have been found for Citybus's fleet and, later this year, about 80 of KMB's buses currently parked on-street in Yuen Long and Tuen Mun will be relocated to a new off-street STT site in Tin Shui Wai. But it has to be recognised that such sites will be in very short supply, particularly in the urban areas where there are other competing and urgent demands for land.

The disposal of bus depots inevitably results in the loss of parking spaces. Over the past ten years, KMB lost 180 such spaces whilst the corresponding figure for CMB is 60. It should be noted that the bus companies had acquired the depots in question in the open market and permission for their disposal was given because the depots were no longer served an operational requirement.

Bus Parking Spaces for CMB. Citybus and KMB (As at 30 April 1996)

Off Street Parking Spaces

Аплех

Fleet Size (as at end

At

At STT

permanent

parking At approved

On

Company

1995)

bus depots

sites

bus termini

Street

(a)

(b)

(c)

(d)

Grand Total (a)+(b)+(c)+(d)

CMB

844

305

350

345

6

1,006

Citybus

375

0

155

222

0

377

KMB

3,513

1,660

687

1,185

231

3,763

Total

4,732

1,965

1,192

1,752

237

5,146

(38%

(23%)

(34%)

(5%)

(100%)

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