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Appendix 36
Contd (Chapter 13: Communications and Transport)
Public Transport: Daily Average Number of Passengers Carried by Different Modes of Transport
Bus
Public light bus*
Taxi*
Ferry
Tram and Cable car
Railway†
Total
Note: * Estimate.
Thousand journeys
1978
1979
1980
3,061
3,319
3,251
1,498
1,577
1,495
833
717
822
529+
568+
510
389
424
444
43
178
511
6,353‡
6,7831
7,033
† Includes Mass Transit Railway. The first stage of the Modified Initial System of the Mass Transit Railway between
Kwun Tong and Shek Kip Mei operated from 1.10.79 and the full system operated from 12.2.80. Revised figures.
Appendix 37
(Chapter 13: Communications and Transport)
Communications
Postal traffic:
11
1978
1979
1980
Estimate
Letter mails (million articles)
posted to destinations abroad
85.1
95.2
92.0
posted for local delivery
168.9
189.3
217.0
received from abroad for local delivery
66.8
77.4
82.8
in transit
3.4
3.7
4.0
Parcels (thousands)
posted to destinations abroad
1,850
1,825
1,829
posted for local delivery
146
179
received from abroad for local delivery
ו'
540
560
262 624
in transit
42
48
56
Telecommunications traffic:
Telegrams (messages) (thousands)
accepted for transmission
1,161
1,313
1,465
received
1,463
1,535
1,519
in transit
1,288
1,291
Telex calls (thousand minutes)
1,181
outward
16,526
19,044
24,485
inward
19,426
22,543
International telephone calls (thousand minutes)
30,982
outward
23,026
31,311
inward
42,878
30,597
40,796
53,034
Radio pictures
transmitted
6,954
7,896
received
25,298
26,105
7,440 24,970
Broadcast and reception services (thousand hours)
press
30
38
31
meteorological
120
115
115
International telephone circuits
744
919
1,226
International telegraph circuits
2,081
2,412
2,860
Telephones per 100 population
Telex trunks
International leased circuits
voice grade
telegraph
Telephone exchanges
Exchange capacity (thousand lines)
Subscribers (thousands)
Telephones (thousands)
Outgoing international calls (million)
Telecommunications licences (all types)
988
1,188
1,423
82
112
972
1,093
150 1,244
62
63
64
1,253
1,335
1,472
1,083
1,173
1,280
1,380
1,517
1,678
29.0
30.2
31.1
3.7
5.3
7.3
27,907
35,629
45,000
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