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quite a while. As for the staff, it includes everyone
We can use over a thousand
in the Transport Department.
staff. All we are doing is to add in new working
Now we are asking senior officials to
procedures.
co-ordinate work and, whenever necessary, to get directives
from the Commissioner for Transport or even I myself for
major decisions.
MRS. CHOW: Sir, I am sure that many of my colleagues will
agree with me that the scenes that we saw showing
people trying to climb on the bus a near-riot
situation was chaotic and frightening, and hopefully not
to be repeated again. May I ask the Secretary what
specifically is being considered as a measure to prevent
the same kind of near-riot scenes from re-occurring?
And in
the light of what he said about co-operation
that he already has from the public transport companies,
what else will he do to ensure that alternative modes of
transport will be subsidised to remove the huge crowds
may
and cause the chaos similar to that
that accumulate
witnessed on 4 June?
SECRETARY FOR TRANSPORT: Sir, I must, first of all, give
great credit to the police force for their very effective
control of the crowd on that particular day, but the lesson
to be learnt from this is not so much the companies
concerned not being willing to help; it is a question of
the timing between the accident and the availability of
alternative transport.
This is precisely where the new
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