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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

Railway+

Total

Tram and Cable Car

Note: * Estimate.

1979

3319

1 577

717

5671

424

178

6 782+

三

1980

3 251

1 495

822

509+

444

511

70322

297

Thousand journeys

1981

3.353

1 459

905

476

444

658

7 295

+ 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

1979

1980

ון

1981

Estimate

Postal traffic:

Letter mails (million articles)

posted to destinations abroad

posted for local delivery

in transit

95.2

93.2

97.9

189.3

219.6

265.3

received from abroad for local delivery

77.4

85.4

92.8

3.7

4.0

4.1

Parcels (thousands)

posted to destinations abroad

1 825

1 823

1 730

posted for local delivery

179

224

235

received from abroad for local delivery

560

617

649

in transit

48

55

61

Telecommunications traffic:

Telegrams (messages) (thousands)

accepted for transmission

1 313

1 465

1 497

received

1 535

1 519

1 608

in transit

1 291

1 181

1 310

Telex calls (thousand minutes)

outward

19 044

24 485

30 713

inward

22 543

30 982

37 254

International telephone calls (thousand minutes)

outward

31 311

42 878

inward

40 796

53 034

57 800 73 300

Radio pictures

transmitted

7 896

7 440

received

26 105

24 970

11 318 6.400

Broadcast and reception services (thousand hours)

press

38

31

26

meteorological

115

115

93

International telephone circuits

919

1 226

1 460

International telegraph circuits

2 412

2 860

3 275

Telex trunks

International leased circuits

voice grade

telegraph

Telephone exchanges

Exchange capacity (thousand lines)

Subscribers (thousands)

Telephones (thousands)

Telephones per 100 population

Outgoing international calls (million) Telecommunications licences (all types)

1 188

1 423

112

1 093

63

150

1 244

64

I 740

208 1 490

64

1 335

1 488

1 626

1 173

1 279

I 379

1 517

1 676

1 829

30.2

32.6

34.7

5.3

7.4

10.7

35 629

47 155

37 000