TNAG-2144-FCO40-3063-Hong-Kong-Port-and-Airport-Development-Strategy-(PADS)-1990 — Page 79

1990-11-02

05:49

COMMS OFFICE (GOUT HOUSE)

852 845 0995 P.03

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In order to

2.

Development

Strategy

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understand

why the Port and Airport

is

the right solution, we must first

The problem is that

seek to understand the problem.

according to modest rates of growth, both our port and our

airport will reach capacity within the next 6 years or

We take steps to provide for their

sconer,

expansion.

and

unless

I shall

not elaborate on the problems facing

the port, which the Secretary for Planning, Environment and

Lands will cover in his speech, but it is important to

remember that our strategy is designed to address both port

airport growth. If the problems were different, then

chosen strategy might well have been different. of the

forty Or so development strategies considered, it was that

based on an airport at Chek Lap Kok and port expansion on

Lantau which performed best against five key tests of -

the

first

(a)

Economic

performance, i.e. its contribution

to Hong Kong's long term and continued

economic growth;

secondly (b)

Environmental and social impact, i.e. its

effect on the quality of the physical, living

and working environment;

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