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Appendix 36

(Chapter 13: Communications and Transport)

Registered Motor Vehicles

Public service vehicles

Public buses

China Motor Bus Company Kowloon Motor Bus Company

New Lantao Bus Company

Others

Public light buses

Taxis

Public hire cars

Private vehicles

Motor cycles

Motor tricycles

Private cars

Private buses

Private light buses

•

243

1973

As at end of year

1974

1975

565

595

1,324

1,371

629 1,560

43

42

42

1,179

1,194

1,186

3,943

4,277

4,307

4,754

4,754

4,754

1,106

1,264

1,283

23,283

23,254

22,290

58

38

26

129,309

119,273

114,260

340

308

293

1,743

-31,534

843 2,751

202,775

902 2,923 193,439

1,447 32,034

913 2,994 188,018

1,648 31,596

Goods vehicles

Crown vehicles (excluding vehicles of HM Forces)

Motor cycles

Other motor vehicles

Total

Tramcars

Hongkong Tramways Company

Tramcars

Trailers

Peak Tramways Company

Tramcars

*

:

:

:

:

162 22

162

22

162

22

22

3

3

3

Total

187

187

187

Public Transport: Passengers Carried by Undertaking

Thousand journeys

1973

1974

1975

Kowloon Motor Bus Company

493,691

564,488

634,562

China Motor Bus Company

150,586

181,172

215,761

Hongkong and Yaumati Ferry Company Hongkong Tramways Company

155,532

153,397+

143,467

145,672

147,588

144,011

'Star Ferry Company

...

52,566

50,465

53,197

Kowloon-Canton Railway

13,286+

13,778

13,474

Peak Tramways Company

1,964

2,051

2,034

New Lantao Bus Company Total

1,225

1,373

1,114,164

1,207,879

1,753 1,015,050

Public Transport: Passengers Carried by Area

Hong Kong Island Kowloon ...

Cross Harbour

Ferry

Tunnel

New Territories

Urban

Rural

::

::

::

=

Thousand journeys

276,874

299,819

320,648

387,039

420,114

458,692

196,349

189,717†

181.485

46,641

67,519

86,107

49,461

...

67,690

82,676

46,937

55,160

63,092

11,749

14,145

15,179

1,015,050

1,114,164

1,207,879

Ferry

Total

Public Transport: Daily Average Number of Passengers Carried by Different Modes of Transport

Bus

Public light bus*...

Ferry

Taxi*

Tram

Public hire car*

Railway

Total

* Estimate.

**

Thousand journeys

1,770 1,231 §

2,046

2,333

1,3328

1,434

570

559+

539

7178

563

563

404

410

400

*

60§

45

46

36‡

38+

37

4,788

4,993

5,352

† Revised figure which includes an estimate of passengers in vehicles.

Revised figure which includes passengers travelling to and from Lo Wu. § Revised estimate,