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COMMUNICATIONS

stage, and to prepare more detailed estimates of the cost and revenue of the project.

The Traffic and Transport Survey Unit carried out transportation surveys for various government departments. These included studies of the public transport requirement of The Chinese University of Hong Kong at Sha Tin, pedestrian reaction to the 'walking man' pedestrian traffic signals, traffic generation of the proposed con- tainer terminal at Canton Road and bus operating characteristics. An extensive investigation was also made into the projected increase in ground traffic generation at Kai Tak Airport and its effect on the road network in the vicinity of the airport arising from an increase in air passenger and cargo traffic. In the urban areas on both sides of the harbour, the actual demands for parking spaces are being surveyed to provide factual data for the formulation of a future parking policy.

To eliminate errors which have continued over past years, the Colony's road network was completely remeasured. The reassessed total number of miles of roads maintained by Government is 593.0 of which 200.7 are on Hong Kong Island, 171.2 in Kowloon and 221.1 in the New Territories. A total of $35.9 million was spent on major projects together with $10.0 million on road improvement and maintenance during the year.

PARKING

There are four government multi-storey car parks, managed by the Urban Council, with a total capacity of 2,281 cars. In addition 1,647 parking spaces in five temporary open air car parks, also managed by the council, have been established on Crown land awaiting development. Construction of two multi-storey car parks at Rumsey Street and Yau Ma Tei, each of which will accommodate about 900 cars on completion, is expected to be completed in early 1970. In addition, there is a total of 6,635 parking meters installed in the urban areas of Hong Kong and Kowloon.

PUBLIC TRANSPORT

With the exception of the Kowloon-Canton Railway whose activities are fully described in an earlier section of this Report, public transport is operated by private enterprise. There are five