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THE HONOURABLE F. K. HU, CHAIRMAN OF THE CULTURE & ENTERTAINMENT SELECT COMMITTEE, replied as follows (in English):--I am grateful to Dr. CHAM for asking this question as it gives me the opportunity to speak on a subject which has also exercised the attention of the Culture and Entertainment Select Committee.
The first of the three aforementioned venues to open will be the Ko Shan Theatre in February 1983. This will be the principal feature of a park which is being developed by the Council in the To Kwa Wan area of Kowloon. The theatre will have a capacity of 3,000 seats, of which 1,000 will be under cover and 2,000 in the open air. A total of 40 car parking spaces have been provided in the park development adjacent to the theatre, and the project architect is examining the possibility of using the park's mini-soccer pitch as a temporary car park when necessary, which would provide an additional 200 parking spaces. However, I would like to stress that the theatre is located close to Chatham Road North, which is well serviced by public transport. In addition, the Urban Services Department is consulting the Transport Department on the possibility of operating special bus services to the theatre whenever there are performances.
The Hung Hom Indoor Stadium is scheduled to open a few months later in April 1983. This will be a much larger venue than the Ko Shan Theatre, with an audience capacity of 12,500. The consequently bigger demand for parking will be met by the adjacent Hung Hom multi-storey car park, operated by the Government, which has a capacity of 980 vehicles and coach parks which will have a capacity of 24 vehicles. As the stadium is being built on a podium above the Kowloon Canton Railway's Kowloon terminus, it will be ideally placed for rail-borne patrons whose numbers can be expected to increase with the extension of the electrified railway. In addition, the railway terminus is already an important public transport interchange for buses, mini-buses, and taxis, and is, furthermore, located close to the Hung Hom ferry pier.
The Tsim Sha Tsui Cultural Centre is scheduled for completion in late 1985 and will probably open in the course of 1986. It will comprise, inter alia, three auditoria which, if simultaneously filled to capacity, will contain 4,660 people. Assuming that 10% of these patrons would be car-borne, this would produce a demand for 466 parking spaces. At present, the only parking facility which has been planned within the centre is for coaches, and there is no provision for private cars. However, this apparent lack of parking provision in the Centre itself needs to be placed in perspective.
Firstly: there are a number of multi-storey car parks either existing or planned in the vicinity of the cultural centre. By 1986, these will provide a total of 4,830 parking spaces for the area, quite irrespective of any additional provision in the future. Whilst these facilities will cater for the parking demand generated by the area as a whole and not just the cultural centre, they will go some way in meeting the parking demand of the cultural centre.
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Secondly: the Tsim Sha Tsui area is already well serviced by public transport. The cultural centre will be adjacent to a major interchange for buses, taxis, and ferries, and the Tsim Sha Tsui M.T.R. station will be within walking distance.
In view of these factors, the position is, perhaps, not so critical as might appear to be the case. However, the Culture and Entertainment Select Committee is monitoring the situation closely, and will press for an increase in the provision of car parking spaces in the Tsim Sha Tsui area if at all possible.
MR. YOUNG (in English):--Mr. Chairman, if you take into account the same assumption that 10% of the patrons might be car-borne, the 40 car parking spaces at Ko Shan Theatre apparently will not be enough. In fact, depending on whether one person using a car or three share a car, I think it will come up to between 100-300. Will the Chairman of the Culture & Entertainment Select Committee take this factor into account when examining the possibility of using the soccer pitch for a temporary car park?
MR. HU (in English):--Mr. Chairman, I confirm that this can be done.
DR. CHAM (in English):--Mr. Chairman, may I extend my thanks to the detailed reply by Mr. Hu. I wonder if Mr. Hu can tell me what kind of parking facilities are planned for coaches in the Tsim Sha Tsui Cultural Centre.
MR. HU (in English):--Mr. Chairman, as mentioned in my reply, there will be parking facilities within the centre for coaches. The number is six coaches, and as a matter of fact, there are also car parking facilities at the space museum. There will be 10 car parks for the staff, and on top of that, there will be 4 coach parking spaces.
DR. CHAM (in English):--Mr. Chairman, in principle, will the Council give priority to coach parking against private car parking in our venues?
MR. HU (in English):--My personal view is that priority should be given to coach parking.
MR. SULKE (in English):--Mr. Chairman, I wonder whether the Chairman of the Culture & Entertainment Select Committee is aware of the fact that the Hung Hom car park is full with monthly parkings, especially in the evening. So, the only car parking spaces available there would be the two floors which are now taken up by one of the Government departments, which would not be much more than 150 cars.
MR. HU (in English):--Mr. Chairman, I am well aware of the seriousness of the car parking problem in the K.C.R. terminus. But, I don't think it is fully...
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for asking this question as it gives me the opportunity to speak on a which has also exercised the attention of the Culture and Entertainment Select
Committee.
The first of the three aforementioned venues to open will be the Ko Shan Theatre in February 1983. This will be the principal feature of a park which is being developed by the Council in the To Kwa Wan area of Kowloon. The theatre will have a capacity of 3 000 seats of which 1 000 will be under cover and 2 000 in the open air. A total of 40 car parking spaces have been provided in the park development adjacent to the theatre, and the project architect is examining the possibility of using the park's mini-soccer pitch as a temporary car park when necessary which would provide an additional 200 parking spaces. However, I would like to stress that the theatre is located close to Chatham Road North, which is well serviced by public transport. In addition, the Urban Services Department is consulting the Transport Department on the possibility of operating special bus services to the theatre whenever there are performances. The Hung Hom Indoor Stadium is scheduled to open a few months later in April 1983. This will be a much larger venue than the Ko Shan Theatre with an audience capacity of 12 500. The consequently bigger demand for parking will be met by the adjacent Hung Hom multi-storey car park, operated by the Government, which has a capacity of 980 vehicles and coach parks which will have a capacity of 24 vehicles. As the stadium is being built on a podium above the Kowloon Canton Railway's Kowloon terminus, it will be ideally-placed for rail-borne patrons whose numbers can be expected to increase with the extension of the electrified railway. In addition, the railway terminus is already an important public transport interchange for buses, mini-buses and taxis, and is, furthermore, located close to the Hung Hom ferry pier.
The Tsim Sha Tsui Cultural Centre is scheduled for completion in late 1985 and will probably open in the course of 1986. It will comprise, inter-alia, three auditoria which, if simultaneously filled to capacity, will contain 4 660 people. Assuming that 10% of these patrons would be car-borne, this would produce a demand for 466 parking spaces. At present the only parking facility which has been planned within the centre is for coaches and there is no provision for private cars. However, this apparent lack of parking provision in the Centre itself needs to be placed in perspective.
Firstly: there are a number of multi-storey car parks either existing or planned-in the vicinity of the cultural centre. By 1986, these will provide a total of 4 830 parking spaces for the area, quite irrespective of any additional provision in the future. Whilst these facilities will cater for the parking demand generated by the area as a whole and not just the cultural centre, they will go some way in meeting the parking demand of the cultural centre.
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Secondly: the Tsim Sha Tsui area is already well-serviced by public trans- port. The cultural centre will be adjacent to a major interchange for buses, taxis and ferries and the Tsim Sha Tsui M.T.R. station will be within walking
distance.
In view of these factors, the position is, perhaps, not so critical as might appear to be the case. However, the Culture and Entertainment Select Committee is monitoring the situation closely, and will press for an increase in the provision of car parking spaces in the Tsim Sha Tsui area if at all possible. MR. YOUNG (in English):-Mr. Chairman, if you take into account the same assumption that 10% of the patrons might be car-borne, the 40 car parking spaces at Ko Shan Theatre apparently will not be enough. In fact, depending on whether
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one person using a car or three share a car, I think it will come up to between 100-300. Will the Chairman of the Culture & Entertainment Select Committee take this factor into account when examining the possibility of using the soccer pitch for a temporary car park?
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MR. HU (in English):-Mr. Chairman, I confirm that this can be done.
DR. CHAM (in English):-Mr. Chairman, may I extend my thanks to the detailed reply by Mr. Hu. I wonder if Mr. Hu can tell me what kind of park- ing facilities are planned for coaches in the Tsim Sha Tsui Cultural Centre.
MR. HU (in English):—Mr. Chairman, as mentioned in my reply, there will be parking facilities within the centre for coaches. The number is six coaches, and as a matter of fact, there are also car parking facilities at the space museum. There will be 10 car parks for the staff, and on top of that, there will be 4 coach parking spaces.
DR. CHAM (in English):-Mr. Chairman, in principle, will the Council give priority to coach parking against private car parking in our venues?
MR. HU (in English):— My personal view is that priority should be given to coach parking.
MR. SULKE (in English):-Mr. Chairman, I wonder whether the Chairman of the Culture & Entertainment Select Committee is aware of the fact that the Hung Hom car park is full with monthly parkings especially in the evening. So, the only car parking spaces available there would be the two floors which are now taken up by one of the Government departments which would not be much more than 150 cars.
MR. HU (in English):—Mr. Chairman, I am well aware of the seriousness of the car parking problem in the K.C.R. terminus. But, I don't think it is fully
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