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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

Private vehicles

Motor cycles

Motor tricycles

848 1 867

58

1 609

1980

985 2.089

56

1 798

As at end of year

1979

1981

1 028 2.390

59 2019

4 350

4 350

4 350

8 762

9 856

11 061

23 289

25 536

27 438

7

7

5

162 762

190 146

211 556

222

226

224

964

ון

955

924

58 801

64 214

915 3 495

936 3.654

1 067

3 974

260 928

299 395

330 309

Private cars

Private buses

Private light buses

Goods vehicles

Crown vehicles (excluding vehicles of HM Forces) Motor cycles

51 780

Other motor vehicles

Total

il

Tramcars

Hongkong Tramways Limited

Tramcars

Trailers

Peak Tramways Company

Tramcars

Total

163

163

163

20

20

20

3

3

3

186

186

186

Public Transport: Passengers Carried by Undertaking

Thousand journeys

1979

1980

1981

Kowloon Motor Bus Company

934 339

911 657

933 025

China Motor Bus Company

274 324

275 533

287 461

Mass Transit Railway Corporation

11 742

167 533

222 914

Hongkong Tramways Limited

150 935

159 183

158 992

Hongkong and Yaumati Ferry Company

142 415

131 994

126 557

Star Ferry Company

56 538

46 551

41 359

Kowloon-Canton Railway

18 353

19 341†

17 123

Peak Tramways Company

2 107

New Lantao Bus Company

Ocean Park Cable Car

Total

Note:

* 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.

2 481

2 041 2.802

2 097

3 140

1 586

1 290

1 169

1 594 820

1 717 925+

1 793 837

Public Transport: Passengers Carried by Area

Thousand journeys

1979

1980

1981

Hong Kong Island

358 705

381 596

Kowloon

590 590

657 021

395 349 657 237

Cross Harbour

Ferry

Tunnels

New Territories

Urban Rural

Total

Note: Revised figures.

177 100

155 152

141 826

153 772

181 433

211 353

161 388

153 265

1 594 820

1 717 925+

174 321 168 402†

220 704 167 368

1 793 837