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another consultancy.
Why do you simply not get on, make a
decision and start building?"
35.
Two year's on, the community seems suddenly to
have forgotten its earlier impatience. Now we hear: "You
really should have studied the proposals more thoroughly";
"there is far too little consultation with the people of
Hong Kong engineers, with
with town
town planners, with university
professors".
36.
Let me go back a little way into history. The
decision to build the new airport was not a sudden one.
As a government, we do not take rash decisions on the
infrastructure vital for Hong Kong's continued economic
Our planning for Hong Kong's territorial
development strategy began in 1972. The long term need
growth.
for port and airport development was defined in the early
seventies, and curiously enough, the sort of solution then
proposed was broadly similar to that we adopted last year.
37.
Over the intervening period, the problem has been
exhaustively reviewed from every angle: from forecast of
demand, through location and environmental impact, to cost
and the disbenefits of doing nothing.
38.
The decision in October 1989 could hardly be
described as a surprise. You, sir, devoted nine
paragraphs to PADS in your 1988 speech, almost as much as
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