TNAG-1729-FCO40-2442-Minutes-and-Hansards-of-the-Legislative-Council-of-Hong-Kong-1988 — Page 232

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One of the reasons of public discontent of the

congestion fare is due to lack of understanding.

The MTRC

has therefore decided to use the next four weeks to explain

more fully to the public the reasons for the peak congestion

fare. The point is that the present loading of 81,000 to 82,000 passengers during the critical hour has resulted in

per cent the overloading of trains by up to 40. Whilst train safety is not in any way at risk, overcrowding has reached such an intolerable stage that passenger safety could be compromised.

بہتر

All possible alternative solutions to deal with Situation.

fully

the evercrowding problem have been explored, by the

le corporation. These include increasing the frequency of

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trains to less than two minutes, adding more cars, closing

certain north Kowloon stations, requiring passengers to queue up at designated positions, running through trains from Kwun

None has been Tong to Central, and reducing non-peak fares.

found to provide practical or acceptable solutions.

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these

In all the circumstances, the Corporation

considers that applying a pricing mechanism in the form of higher fares for travelling during the peak congestion period

is the most effective and practical measure to achieve a

better balance between the supply and demand of MTR

services. The sole purpose is to encourage passengers

travel earlier, by no more than 15 minutes or so,

serious overcrowding.

to avoid

At the same time, the MTRC has taken

steps to advance the two-minute frequency service to begin at

7.40 am,, thus ensuring that there is adequate capacity to cope with those passengers who choose to travel earlier.