2007年7月26日 星期四

GDI to announce ‘optimization plan’ for light metro project

GDI to announce ‘optimization plan’ for light metro project

Macau Post Daily 9 July 2007
Suki Leong

The Infrastructure Development Office (GDI) will announce its “optimization plan” for the elevated light metro (ELM) project this week, a GDI source told The Macau Post Daily last night.

The source, who asked to remain anonymous, said that under the optimization plan the number of metro stations would be less than the previously planned 26, adding that Avenida da Praia Grande had been cancelled from the route because of environmental and landscaping concerns.

The source said the optimization plan included just “minor amendments” to the ELM project that was announced in October last year. At that time, the GDI said the ELM was planned to be built on a track supposed by stilts high above street level.

Some sectors of local society have expressed their worries and concerns about the project, particularly regarding its environmental impact, such as the impact of the elevated track on trees below, according to a popular blog on the matter (http://macautransportation.blogspot.com) .

According to the worries, if the track would be built along Avenida da Praia Grande, it would affect trees on the avenue below and block the view of the Clube Militar.

Others raised concerns about the project’s expected socio-economic impact and questioned why the proposed network seemed to be excessively centred on providing public transport between the Barrier Gate checkpoint and local casinos, without taking the interests of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) into consideration. Others wondered whether air pollution caused by exhaust fumes under the elevated track would kill trees and affect the health of pedestrians in the respective areas.

74 pct approve of ELM

Meanwhile, the GDI source also told The Macau Post Daily that the government had hired a local university to conduct a telephone and street opinion survey on the ELM project. The project was conduced between late last year and early this year, involving 1,508 respondents.

According to the survey’s finding, 74 per cent of the respondents said they approved of the proposed ELM network, and 65 per cent said they accepted a maximum walking distance of 15 minutes to the nearest ELM station. About 60 per cent said they agreed with the proposed track on stilts.

The source declined to tell The Macau Post Daily how many of the respondents disagreed with certain aspects raised by the survey, such as the project’s routing, construction costs and landscaping.

Secretary for Transport and Public Works Lau Si Io told lawmakers in May the government planned to complete the tendering procedures for the construction of the ELM project “by the end of this year or early next year.” Mr. Lau also said the project was expected to be completed within four years after the tendering process had been finalized.

According to previous reports, the government plans to invest 4.2 billion patacas in the project, covering 22 kilometres in its first phase. The government plans to launch the project as a public infrastructure undertaking. Tickets are planned to cost three patacas for at trip on the Macau Peninsula or in Taipa/Cotai, and four patacas when travelling between the peninsula and Taipa/Cotai.

GDI Director Antonio Jose Castanheira Lourenco has said he expects the ELM to start operating as early as 2010.

The idea of building a mass transit system in Macau goes back to the late 1980s, when the then Portuguese administration announced plans – which never got off the ground – to build a monorail. The idea of a mass transit system was revived by the government soon after Macau’s return to the motherland in 1999 but the first concrete pre-project was only presented to the public in 2003. The second pre-project was launched in 2005, ultimately resulting in this week’s “optimization plan.”

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