(Translation) Minutes of the 3rd Meeting of Traffic and Transport Committee, the 5th Term Kwun Tong District Council Date: 24 March 2016 (Thursday) Time: 2:30 p.m. Venue: Conference Room, Kwun Tong District Office, Unit 05-07, 20/F Millennium City 6, 392 Kwun Tong Road, Kwun Tong, Kowloon Present: Members Ms SO Lai-chun, MH, JP (Chairman) Mr HUNG Kam-in, Kin Mr CHEUNG Pui-kong (Vice-chairman) Ms KAM Kin Mr AU YEUNG Kwan-nok Mr KAN Ming-tung Mr BUX Sheik Anthony Mr LAI Shu-ho, Patrick, BBS, MH, JP Mr CHAN Chun-kit Mr LUI Tung-hai Dr CHAN Chung-bun, Bunny, GBS, JP Mr MA Yat-chiu, Marco Mr CHAN Kok-wah, Ben, MH Mr MOK Kin-shing Mr CHAN Man-kin Mr NGAN Man-yu Mr CHAN Wah-yu, Nelson, MH Mr OR Chong-shing, Wilson, MH Mr CHAN Yiu-hung, Jimmy Mrs POON YAM Wai-chun, Winnie, MH Mr CHENG Keng-ieong Mr SO Koon-chung, Kevin Mr CHENG Keung-fung Mr TAM Siu-cheuk Mr CHEUNG Ki-tang Mr TANG Wing-chun Mr CHEUNG Shun-wah Ms TSE Suk-chun Mr CHEUNG Yiu-pan Mr WONG Chi-ken Ms FU Pik-chun Mr WONG Chun-ping Mr HO Kai-ming, Jonathan Mr YIP Hing-kwok, MH, JP Mr HSU Hoi-shan Mr YIU Pak-leung, Perry Co-opted Members Mr LING Chi-keung Ms BUT Yee Mr HUI Chin-pang Mr FUNG Wang-yui 1 Representatives of Government Departments Ms CHAN Pik-ki, Eiphie Assistant District Officer (Kwun Tong)1 Mr LEE Yin-bun, Philip Senior Executive Officer (District Council), Kwun Tong District Office Mr LIU Kin-wai, Rick Senior Transport Officer/Kwun Tong, Transport Department Mr HO Chi-tat Engineer/Kwun Tong 3, Transport Department Mr CHAN Wai-hong District Engineer/Kwun Tong, Highways Department Mr LAI Kin-kwok Representative, Kwun Tong District, Hong Kong Police Force Mr HO Chi-kin Representative, Sau Mau Ping District, Hong Kong Police Force Representatives Present to Assist Discussion of Agenda Items Agenda Item II - Bus Route Planning Programme 2016-2017 of Kwun Tong District Miss LAI Suet-yan, Janice Senior Transport Officer/Bus/Kowloon, Transport Department Mr CHEUNG Tin, Larry Transport Officer/Bus/Kowloon, Transport Department Mr Edmond WU Manager, Planning and Development, The Kowloon Motor Bus Company (1933) Limited Mr Luka LAI Planning and Development Officer, The Kowloon Motor Bus Company (1933) Limited Mr Frankie WONG Manager, Community Affairs, The Kowloon Motor Bus Company (1933) Limited Ms Maggie SUEN Senior Operations Officer, The Kowloon Motor Bus Company (1933) Limited Mr Brian NG Chief Planning Officer, Citybus Limited/New World First Bus Services Limited Mr Kevin LI Public Affairs Manager, Citybus Limited/New World First Bus Services Limited 2 Agenda Item III - Development of ex-Cha Kwo Ling Kaolin MineSite - Feasibility Study on the Provision of an Additional Carriageway to Cha Kwo Ling Road and the Proposed Road Improvement Works Ms Alice PANG Deputy Project Manager (Kowloon), Civil Engineering and Development Department Mr LAI Chiu-fung Senior Engineer/8 (Kowloon), Civil Engineering and Development Department Ms SO Yuet-sin, Joyce Senior Town Planner/Kowloon 5, Planning Department Mr TAI Seung-kun Engineer/Housing and Planning 1/Kowloon, Transport Department Mr LAI Yee-yan, Stephen Managing Director, Water and Urban Development, Hong Kong, AECOM Asia Company Limited Mr CHEUNG Tak-lung, Henry Associate, Water and Urban Development, Hong Kong, AECOM Asia Company Limited Ms CHEUK Man-yuen, Kitty Senior Transport Planner, Transportation, Hong Kong, AECOM Asia Company Limited Agenda Item IV - Road Improvement Works in relation to Development Areas 2 and 3 of the Kwun Tong Town Centre Redevelopment Project of the Urban Renewal Authority Mr Eric POON Head, Works and Contracts, Urban Renewal Authority Mr Ken WONG Senior Manager, Works and Contracts, Urban Renewal Authority Mr SO Ngai-long Senior Manager, Community Development, Urban Renewal Authority Mr Sam MOK Manager, Works and Contracts, Urban Renewal Authority Ms Rebecca CHAN Technical Director, MVA Hong Kong Limited Ms Moraine MOK Associate, MVA Hong Kong Limited Secretary Mr Albert Junior CHOW Executive Officer (District Council)4, Kwun Tong District Office 3 Absent: Member Mr CHOY Chak-hung Opening Remarks The Chairman welcomed all Members, departmental representatives and co-opted Members, including Mr LING Chi-keung, Mr HUI Chin-pang, Ms BUT Yee and Mr FUNG Wang-yui, to the meeting. I. Confirmation of Minutes of Last Meeting 2. The minutes of the last meeting were confirmed without amendment. II. Bus Route Planning Programme 2016-2017 of Kwun Tong District (KTDC TTC Paper No. 7/2016) 3. The Chairman welcomed Miss Janice LAI, Senior Transport Officer/Bus/Kowloon, and Mr Larry CHEUNG, Transport Officer/Bus/Kowloon, of the Transport Department (“TD”); Mr Edmond WU, Manager, Planning and Development, Mr Luka LAI, Planning and Development Officer, Mr Frankie WONG, Manager, Community Affairs, and Ms Maggie SUEN, Senior Operations Officers, of The Kowloon Motor Bus Company (1933) Limited (“KMB”); Mr Brian NG, Chief Planning Officer, and Mr Kevin LI, Public Affairs Manager, of Citybus Limited/New World First Bus Services Limited (“Citybus”), to attend the meeting. 4. Miss Janice LAI of the TD presented the paper. 5. 11 Members raised the views and enquiries as follows: 5.1 Suggesting that Route No. 95 expand the catchment area by extending to Shun On Road and Lee On Road; 5.2 Welcoming that more buses would run on Route Nos. 290 and 290A, and suggesting that a bus stop be installed at a spot between Shun Lee Estate and Shun On Estate; 5.3 Requesting Route No. 14D to provide whole-day service; 5.4 Enquiring about the schedule for the opening of Route No. 213X; 5.5 Expressing hope that the bus companies could give serious thought to the creation of an airport bus route serving surrounding areas of Chun Wah Road and Hip Wo Street; 5.6 Requesting for interchange concessions for Route No. 2X, and not to reduce 4 service frequency on Route No. 2A even if more buses would run on Route No. 2X; 5.7 Opposing to extend Route No. 14B to Lok Wah Estate; 5.8 Urging to ensure that existing service needs would be met after the merge of Route Nos. 621 and 641, and suggesting that more interchange services be arranged for bus routes such as Route Nos. 601 and 603, in addition to providing estimated bus arrival time information; 5.9 Suggesting that service frequency be increased on Route No. 2X during peak hours; 5.10 Suggesting that Route No. 9 be extended to Choi Ying Estate, Choi Tak Estate and Choi Fook Estate (the Sam Choi area) while keeping the service to Choi Hung Road intact, and along the route the number of bus stops be cut to allow buses to save some time to offset the additional travel time due to route extension; at the same time opposing to relocating Route No. 9’s terminus from Tsim Sha Tsui Ferry Pier to Tsim Sha Tsui East; 5.11 Requesting to advance the implementation of the plan to extend Route Nos. 6P and 88X to Yau Tong, and two bus services regarding Route No. 6P running from Yau Tong to Tsuen Wan West, as well as another route from Yau Tong to So Uk; 5.12 Suggesting that the new bus route from Yau Tong to Tsuen Wan West be in service seven days a week instead of five days a week from Monday to Friday, while extended daily service hours be adopted so as to operate from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m.; 5.13 Suggesting that section fares be provided for the new Route No. 6P running between Yau Tong and Cheung Sha Wan; 5.14 Opposing frequency reduction on Route No. 14B and expressing the views that the problem did not lie in the lack of demand for the service of the bus route but infrequent bus trips and loss of bus trips, and this explained why local residents preferred minibus services to Route No. 14B; 5.15 Expressing the views that the proposed changes to Route No. 88X, which went against the original objectives of creating the bus route and were to the disadvantage of Lam Tin residents, would mean a longer journey to the New Territories for passengers living in Lam Tin and the surrounding areas, and inviting the bus company to reconsider the changes; 5.16 Expressing the views that it was not an ideal arrangement to turn Route No. 88X into a circular route, and instead terminus should be set up at both ends of the route; 5.17 Requesting that interchange concession for Route No. 277X should also apply to passengers travelling on Route No. 277E; 5 5.18 Enquiring about how the problem regarding loss of trips could be mitigated and expressing the views that the problem, if properly dealt with, would go a long way towards addressing low service demand; 5.19 Proposing that Route No. 88X could run A/B routes as what Route No. 14D was doing now; 5.20 Proposing that, amid population growth in Yau Tong due to development in the area, consideration be given to introduce an airport bus route serving Yau Tong and Pik Wan Road, in view of the fact that over the years requests for an airport bus route to serve Pik Wan Road and the surrounding areas had been stonewalled; 5.21 Expressing the views that to deal with the shortage of public transport serving Pik Wan Road, consideration could be given to introducing new bus routes, including the newly introduced bus route running from Yau Tong to Tsuen Wan West, to cover Pik Wan Road; 5.22 Expressing the views that frequency of Route No.