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APPENDICES

Public Transport: Average Daily Number of Passenger Journeys by Different Modes of Transport

Thousand journeys

1995

1996

1997

Franchised bus

Non-franchised bus

Mass Transit Railway

3 506#

3 650#

99

104

2226

Red Minibus (2) and Green Minibus

Taxi (2)

1 745

1 769

2 231

3 798

108

2 224

1 776 *

1 293

1 293

1 298

Kowloon-Canton Railway-Heavy Rail

641

678

718

Tram

320

307

291

Kowloon-Canton Railway-Light Rail

336

342

349

Ferry

222

214

196

Residential coach

94

106

111

**

Total (3)

10 482#

10 694

10 868

*

Public Transport: Cross Harbour Passenger Journeys by Selected Modes of Transport

Mass Transit Railway

Franchised bus

Ferry

Notes: (1) Long Win Bus Company started operation on 1.6.1997.

(2) Estimates.

(3) Figures may not add up to total due to rounding.

*

Provisional figure.

#

Revised figure.

Source: Transport Department.

(Enquiry Telephone No.: 2829 5354)

Thousand journeys

1995

1996

1997

317 026

319 889

307 100

132 539

145 484

163 500

46 378

45 008

40 420

459