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SCMP

This article was first published on November 10, 1990
By Jeremy Lau
All-night tram trial stopped
Hong Kong Tramways will discontinue its trial all-night service after tonight, a director of Wharf (Holdings) Limited, which owns the company, said on Friday (November 9, 1990).
Mr lan Hamilton said the trials had been criticised by members of the Eastern and Wan Chai district boards as being too noisy ever since the scheme was introduced in August.
The tram company had decided to abide by their opinions, although overnight services would be maintained for special occasions and festivals, Mr Hamilton said.
He was speaking after a first aid competition organised by the company at the Hung Hom entrance of the Cross Harbour Tunnel.

Mr Hamilton said the Cross Harbour Tunnel Company, also part of Wharf, would not automatically receive a HK$5 toll increase if its application for a rise was approved by the government.
He said an arbitrator had to decide how much of an increase the company would be entitled to. “He may decide that we get 10 cents or HK$5. We don’t know,” Mr Hamilton said.
One thing was definite, he said, that there would be a toll increase if the company won approval. He said it was inevitable that traffic volume would decrease if tolls were increased.
“But I don’t think we would lose a large percentage,” Mr Hamilton said, adding that he had no idea how much traffic would turn to the Eastern Harbour Crossing linking Cha Kwo Ling in Kwun Tong and Quarry Bay.
He expected that the result of the arbitration on the rise, which was conducted by a retired British judge early last month, would be made in the next few weeks.
The company applied in April 1988 for a HK$5 increase on its tolls (from HK$5) and at the same time for the HK$5 tax levied by the government since 1984 to be scrapped. The company argued at that time that it had not increased tolls since the tunnel was opened in 1972.
The Executive Council rejected the application later that year on the grounds that the company had been making profits every year.
The tunnel company then decided to bring the dispute to arbitration, which is provided for in the Cross Harbour Tunnel Ordinance.


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On November 10, 1990, Hong Kong Tramways put a stop to the trial service after receiving noise complaints from district boards


On November 10, 1990, Hong Kong Tramways put a stop to the trial service after receiving noise complaints from district boards.


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.css-1c6uqr6{color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-family:inherit;line-height:inherit;overflow-wrap:break-word;}On November 10, 1990, Hong Kong Tramways put a stop to the trial service after receiving noise complaints from district boards

All-night tram trial stopped

On This Day | Hong Kong discontinues trial all-night tram service in 1990 – from the SCMP archive

On November 10, 1990, Hong Kong Tramways put a stop to the trial service after receiving noise complaints from district boards