TRANSPORT IN HONG KONG
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Hong Kong is one of the host densely populated territories in the world, Most of its 4.7m people live in an urban area divided by the world's busiest harbour.
Highways
2. Hong Kong has one of the highest densities of road traffic in the world, Following the Long Term Road Study report by consultants in 1968, government embarked on a major road building programme to
In 1960 Hong Kong cope with the rapidly growing vehicle population.
had 500 miles of road for 40,000 vehicles and by 1976, 700 miles for 190,000 vehicles, In 1976 a further consultants' report, the Comprehensive Transport Study, was submitted, dealing with the overall transportation needs for the future. The road programme involves criss-crossing the 400 square mile territory with a serles of motorway style trunk routes. Because of the difficult terrain and dense development much of this network is elevated or in tunnel, The overheating of the economy in the last 18 months has resulted in a slow down in the highway building programme but the Hong Kong
Government is fully conscious of the necessity for an efficient road network if industry and commerce is to continue to thrive.
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Concurrently with the major road building programme the
government has installed a large number of traffic signals and
in 1977 commissioned the West Kowloon ATC System with nearly a hundred signals controlled centrally by computer.
Buses and Minibuses
Kowloon Motor Bus Co.
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Operates 159 services in Kowloon and the New Territories carrying 2.22m passengers daily (LTE 4m per The Company has a fleet of 1700 vehicles (LTE 6,900) and is the largest road passenger transport operation in SE Asia.
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Chica Motor Bus Co.
Operates 70 services on Hong Kong Island
carrying 0,66m passengers daily.
The two companies operate 14 joint services through the cross harbour tunnel carrying 350,000 passengers a day.
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