Lawmaker-cum-businessman Si Ka Lon urged the government in an interpellation yesterday to explain why it has given Hong Kong’s MTR Corporation Ltd. a 470 million pataca service contract for the light-rail transit (LRT) project.
The government said in a notice published late last month in the Official Gazette (BO) that as the contract for the LRT management and technical support with the current service provider was about to end, the government had decided to sign a two-year contract with MTR Corporation Ltd., paying the Hong Kong railway company 470 million patacas over two years.
The contract with Egis Rail/Fase expired at the end of last month, according to previous reports.
This photo taken on May 28 shows a section of the repeatedly delayed LRT construction project in Cotai. Photo: Ian Sio Tou
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