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ability of the system to meet public transport demand there
should be a major factor in determining whether it should
It would continue upon the expiry of the 20-year period.
perhaps be opportune for me to stress here that while Phase I
of the LRT system is scheduled to start operating in 1988,
other phases of the LRT network within the TSA are still at
various stages of planning with some proposed extensions tied
in with Government's own development plans so that they are
As the unlikely to be implemented before the early 1990s.
20-year period will take effect from the date of commencement
of this Ordinance, the full LRT system may in fact enjoy
rather less than 20 years' protection unless the period is to
cover later phases of the system. This point will need to be
borne in mind in any future review of the Transit Service Area.
4.
The amendments which Mr HU will be moving at the
committee stage to allow franchised external buses to set down.
passengers within the Transit Service Area in case of
I understand that some of my
emergency are fully accepted.
Unofficial Colleagues would have preferred clause 23 of the
Bill to have been written in such a way as to allow passengers
"with reasonable cause" to alight from franchised external
buses within the Transit Service Area. This form of words,
however, is somewhat loose and could create a loophole for
abuse. If experience should show that this provision was not
meeting the needs of the travelling public in the special
circumstances Members of the Ad Hoc Group have in mind, a
suitable amendment to regulation 24A of the Public Bus
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