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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