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HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL - 11 January 1989

香港立法局 ——————一九八九年一月十一日

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with the Nursing Board. It is the recent recommendation of the Nursing Board that the existing system of hospital based nurse training should continue. Since the training standards are kept under constant review by the Nursing Board, we do not plan at present to review the basic training provided for our student nurses. As regards post-basic training, it is an on-going process provided through in-service training and formal educational programmes at approved institutions. The Medical and Health Department has recently proposed to engage a consultant to come to Hong Kong to look at the existing arrangements devised by the department for post-basic nursing training, and we hope that we would be able to review that aspect of nursing training in the future, Sir.

Noise nuisance caused by cargo trains

2. 林貝聿嘉議員問:政府可否告知本局,是否會採取措施,使在晚上十一時至凌晨二時行走 的火車貨卡及行經大圍隧道口和新界沿途鄰近民居的火車所引致的噪音滋擾得以減低?

運輸司答:主席先生,九廣鐵路公司已經實施一系列措施,以減低火車貨卡在午夜後行走所引致 的噪音滋擾。這些措施包括:

(a) 在火車柴油車頭的排氣管安裝新的滅聲器;鐵路當局會先進行試驗,確定這些滅聲器的效

用良好,才正式安裝;

(b) 由下月起,把火車貨卡晚上十一時至凌晨二時的行走班,由四班減至三班;

(c) 在各關鍵地點的路軌加潤滑油,減低車輪與路軌摩擦所造成的噪音。

此外,作為長期工作的一部分,九廣鐵路公司已成立一個鐵路噪音問題工作小組,尋求其他減 低噪音的辦法,然後作出評估,並在可行情況下加以實施。

林貝聿嘉議員問:主席先生,既然政府準備在火車柴油車頭排氣管安裝新的滅聲器,請問何時開 始試驗呢?如果效果良好,何時開始安裝?如果試驗後證明無效,政府有沒有計劃將這些落後的 柴油車頭轉變為電氣化火車頭呢?

運輸司答:九廣鐵路當局已定了一批滅聲器,希望在兩、三星期內運到,接著,會為這些滅聲器 做一個試驗,希望在兩、三個月後,提交試驗報告。如果效果良好,便會進行安裝在所有車卡的