TNAG-0426-FCO40-472-Construction-of-an-underground-railway-system-in-Hong-Kong-1973 — Page 171

}

336

363

From the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

London S.W.1

7 December, 1973

DKK 21/4

345

Ri

PA

10/201

No Goodfellow

hellow

:

We agreed, because of the unavoidable length of the answer to your writter Question about the construction of an underground railway system in Hong Kong, that I would reply by letter. I have arranged for a copy of this letter to be placed in the library of the House.

The obvious increase of traffic on the roads and the belief that this would continue and even accelerate, led the Hong Kong Government in the mid-1960's to commission three major studies covering all espects of transport within the colony. These were:

(a)

(b)

the Hong Kong Passenger Transport Survey, prepared in 1964-66 and published in 1967;

the Hong Kong Mass Transport Study, prepared in 1966-67 and published in 1968; and

(c) the Long Term Road Study, prepared

in 1967-68 and published in 1968.

A major task for the consultants in all these studies was to predict the demand for transport of all kinds in Hong Kong up to the mid and late 1980's.

It was out of these studies that proposals for an underground railway system emerged, and these proposals were further examined and refined in

Coheed. led. Cal Sec HIL

要

1/12

-1-

/further