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October 13, 2003
Development
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Electronic road fees revisited to ease traffic jams

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A revised outline development plan will be tabled to the Town Planning Board and gazetted to state clearly that there are no other plans to reclaim the harbour apart from works at Central, Wan Chai and the proposed Southeast Kowloon Development.

 

This was the message from the Secretary for Housing, Planning & Lands Michael Suen in the Legislative Council today.

 

He said studies have been conducted to explore the feasibility of reclaiming land at Tsuen Wan, Green Island, Tsim Sha Tsui East and Kowloon point.

 

However, the plans have been shelved after taking into account decelerated population growth and findings of a comprehensive review conducted earlier.

 

Mr Suen said the Central Reclamation III has sparked heated discussions on harbour protection.

 

He said the Government accords high priority to harbour protection, adding that the project has been carried out in accordance to all necessary legal procedures.

 

As the project serves to ease traffic congestion in Central and Wan Chai, he hoped a consensus on the scale of reclamation can be reached as soon as possible.

 

Advisory Council on Environment supports project

In a separate development, the Advisory Council on the Environment today discussed the Central Reclamation III.

 

Secretary for Environment, Transport & Works Dr Sarah Liao said the council's position on the project has not changed, adding that the decision has been made to balance the needs of society in terms of social and economic development as well as minimisation of environmental impact.

 

She also shared members' views that apart from building roads, traffic management measures can be used to ease traffic jams.

 

In this regard, the Government is revisiting the use of electronic road pricing in controlling traffic flow.

 

Public acceptability will be considered 

Dr Liao said modern technology may have overtaken the issue of privacy, and hoped that the public, including legislators, related organisations and the Transport Advisory Committee, will explore this traffic control measure.

 

As the measure is rather controversial, Dr Liao said there will be extensive consultation.

 

The Government will also make reference to other cities, for example London and Singapore, and take into account public acceptability when studying the feasibility of this measure, she added.



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