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APPENDICES

Public Transport: Passengers Carried by Area (excluding passengers of public light buses and taxis)

Hong Kong Island

Kowloon

Cross Harbour

Ferry Tunnels

New Territories

Urban

Rural

Total

Thousand journeys

1988

1989

522 773

513 810

1990*

500 724

837 687

804 571

788 281

96 944

87 699

69 505

375 749

392 017

411 336

424 575

430 951

454 342

450 116

498 032

523 570

2 707 844

2 727 080

2 747 758

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

1988

1989

Thousand journeys

1990†

Bus

3.861

3 572

3 504

Public light bus* and Green Minibus

1 584

1 744

1 743

Taxi*

1 216

1 220

1 237

Ferry

337

320

274

Tram

369

357

359

Railway‡

2 298

2 529

2 666

Residential coach

22

Total

9 687

9 772

30

9 826

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Note:

* Estimate.

Includes Mass Transit Railway and Light Rail Transit.

**Kowloon-Canton Railway Bus was introduced in September 1987. # Light Rail Transit of KCRC was introduced on 18 September 1988. + Provisional figures.

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