HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL —— 2 November 1988
香港立法局 —— 一九八八年十一月二日
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And these very points which Mrs. CHOW has raised are a very large part of their duties. On the whole, I think the performance is reasonably good, though obviously there will be lapses.
林貝聿嘉議員問:主席先生,鑑於很多時堀路工程所堀出的東西會帶來環境污染和會發出臭味, 對附近食肆和行人造成滋擾,請問政府有何解決方法?
SECRETARY FOR LANDS AND WORKS: Sir, I do not think it is a universal rule that a trench equals a stench. But I think that the only real measure which the Government can take when such is the case will be to ensure the speedy completion of the excavation and refilling of the trench concerned.
MR. HO SAI-CHU: Sir, may I ask the. Secretary to reconfirm that, as I understand it, the practice nowadays is that utility contractors would open the road, do the repair work and then reinstate it temporarily. Then the road contractors would come over to dig up the road again and carry out permanent reinstatement. If that is still the practice, would the Secretary consider changing it to allow the utility contractors to do both the repair works and the permanent reinstatement?
SECRETARY FOR LANDS AND WORKS: Sir, I can confirm that this has been, up to fairly recently, the standard procedure. But I can also confirm that new arrangements have been introduced recently by which at least some of the public utilities are doing permanent reinstatement immediately rather than temporary reinstatement and the Director of Highways wishes, wherever possible, that this practice should be expanded.
鍾沛林議員問:主席先生,刚才聽到許賢發議員提到日本堀路多數在夜晚進行,地政工務司在發 出這些批准書前,會否考慮這些工程會滋擾到民居?
SECRETARY FOR LANDS AND WORKS: The short answer is certainly that the Director of Highways and his co-ordinating committees would have to consider that. But I must correct Mr. CHUNG in one respect. I only mentioned road surfacing being done at night. We have not as far as I know done road trench excavation at night. I am not sure whether it is practicable but in any case, if it were practicable and if it were adopted, we would have to adopt such a procedure as suggested by Mr. CHUNG.
MRS. FAN: Sir, I note from the Secretary's reply that in fact in a year, there is on average 36,500 road openings. In some western countries, like the United Kingdom, companies which wish to open certain part of the road have to pay a
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