TNAG-2733-FCO40-3939-Future-of-Hong-Kong-constitutional-development-1993 — Page 38

SUVERENT HOUSE MUNGU KUN..

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reconstruct

heavily

used

Territory, and

and

upgrade many of our most

local roads throughout the

introduce tougher controls on road works, a

major and particularly

road congestion.

The China Freight Load

irritating

cause of

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Within Hong Kong, traffic volumes have grown in

at the border they have positively

recent years.

exploded.

But

We have seen an enormous expansion of our

business with Southern

over the last decade.

China,

fuelling our economic power

But there is a transport cost to pay:

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the number of heavy and medium goods vehicles

is up 70 per cent in the last five years;

the volume of traffic entering Hong Kong from

Guangdong is up 90 per cent over the same

period; and

by 1997, we expect the flow of road traffic

Hong Kong to rise by a further

entering

60 per cent.

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