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APPENDICES

APPENDIX 46

(Chapter 14: Transport)

Registered and Licensed Motor Vehicles

As at end of year

1996

1997

1998

Registered

Licensed

Registered

Licensed

Registered

Licensed

Public service vehicles

Public buses

China Motor Bus Company

(D)

855

843

823

816

Kowloon Motor Bus Company

3 594

3 581

3 839

3 834

3.990

3988

New Lantao Bus Company

78

69

80

77

87

82

Citybus

451

390

590

561

937

937

Long Win Bus Company (2)

22

22

163

160

New World First Bus T

841

703

Others

5 287

5 048

5 630

5 349

5 868

5 526

Public light buses

Taxis

Private vehicles

Motor cycles

Motor tricycles

Private cars

Private buses

4 348

4 313

4 350

4 335

4 350

4 343

18 126

17 789

18 136

17 918

18 138

18 053

30 164

22 650

31 212

23 511

32 004

23.343

2

0

0

0

0

0

325 131

293 381

348 450

314 833

359 694

383

359

423

404

437

Private light buses

2 481

2.303

2. 392

2 230

Goods vehicles

134 419

116 791

134 861

118 279

Special purpose vehicles

345

316

406

370

2 297 132 785 457

318 137

2 158 115 051

423

406

Government vehicles (excluding

military vehicles)

Motor cycles

I 207

I 207

1 308

1 308

1 238

Other motor vehicles

6 075

6 075

6 381

6 381

6 125

1 238 6 125

Total

532 946

475 115

558 903

500 228

569 411

500 673

Notes: (1) China Motor Bus Company ceased operation and New World First Bus started operation on 1.9.1998.

(2) Long Win Bus Company started operation on 1.6.1997.

Not applicable.

Public Transport: Passenger Journeys by Undertaking

China Motor Bus Company (1)

Kowloon Motor Bus Company

New Lantao Bus Company

5 270

Citybus

119 686

Thousand journeys

1996

1997

1998

1 031 889

1 051 102

179 212

176 449

5 923

147 750

1 034 351

104 920

6 208

183 295

Long Win Bus Company (2)

2 883

14 364

Kowloon-Canton Railway Bus

38 074

39 251

37 872

New World First Bus (

46 980

Mass Transit Railway Corporation

816 572

811 897

797 530

Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation-East Rail

248 331

262 024

269 443

Light Rail Transit

125 124

126 185#

114 474

Hongkong Tramways

107 816

101 908

92 893

Peak Tramways Company

4 401

Green Minibus

332 592

Residential Coach Services

38 790

4 246 353 839 40 741

359 820*

3 321

39 328 *

Hongkong and Yaumati Ferry Company

34 213

29.990

22 756

'Star Ferry Company

35 225

32 477

30 025

Minor Ferries

8 885

9 113

9 959

Red Minibus (3)

Taxi (3)

314 722

294 003

280 663

473 213

473 636

477 109

Total (4)

3 914 015

3 963 416

3 925 309 *

Notes: (1) China Motor Bus Company ceased operation and New World First Bus started operation on 1.9.1998.

(2) Long Win Bus Company started operation on 1.6.1997.

(3) Estimates.

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

*

#

Provisional figure.

Revised figure.

Not applicable.

475