Over a period of three years, I have written several letters appealing for the installation of benches at the LRT's Castle Peak stop, in Tuen Mun.
I have written to the Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation, to various government departments and officials, but all to no avail. Local residents also wrote to the chairman of the LRT Monitor Group, Chan Wan-sang, and to the LRT's managing director, Jonathan Yu Hoi-gin. Mr Yu did not reply. What kind of red tape is holding up this simple matter? These benches are important for passengers waiting for the LRT carriages to arrive. They would, in particular, be appreciated by the elderly.
In addition to all my letters, I organised a petition and got 86 signatures, all of local people. We talked about our petition on a morning talk show on RTHK.
We are getting desperate and we appeal yet again to the LRT management to answer this simple request.
Perhaps the LRT should take a long hard look at its management structure and ask itself if it is operating efficiently.
How are we supposed to have any faith in the performance pledge to the public that the LRT makes in newspaper advertisements, when we have been waiting for three years just for some benches at one LRT stop? T. C. TAM New Territories
