TNAG-1729-FCO40-2442-Minutes-and-Hansards-of-the-Legislative-Council-of-Hong-Kong-1988 — Page 250

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The KCR currently carries over 400,000 passengers a

day. The train capacity will be further increased through

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the acquisition of additional sets of 6-car units for

introduction by stages before 1992.

Phase I of the Light

Rail Transit system between Tuen Mun and Yuen Long is due to

be completed in August 1988. Five additional regional extensions of the system are also planned over the next six

years.

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Meanwhile, the standard and level of bus and ferry

services has continued to be improved through more effective

planning and monitoring of the five-year plans of the

franchised bus and ferry companies. Between them, they now

carry about 4.3 million passengers per day. In addition,

studies are also undertaken on a regular basis to identify

deficiencies of public transport, services. One example is

the further study of cross-harbour public transport services

to commence later this year.

The Government also maintains an intermodal

coordination policy which aims at maximising the use of the various transport modes. The policy allows for adjustment of

services to cope with the changing congestion situation. An

obvious example is the overcrowding currently experienced

along certain MTR stations along the Nathan Road corridor

during the peak of the morning peak. To cope with passenger

demand at this critical period, alternative public transport

services have been and will be provided. For example,

frequencies of cross-harbour bus services and feeder bus

services to ferry concourses are being increased as far as

necessary.

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