Commissioner for Transport distributes language CDs

The Commissioner for Transport, Mr Robert Footman, today (November 27) appealed to taxi drivers to improve their service quality through continuous self-learning when he distributed the Workplace English and Putonghua Programme learning kits to them at the LPG Stations in West Kowloon and Tai Po respectively.

The Workplace English and Putonghua Programme for Taxi Drivers is one of the initiatives the Transport Department has taken to improve the taxi service quality.

The Programme comprises over 40,000 sets of learning kits and a homepage that contain easy and simple communication examples about greetings, asking for destinations, collecting fares, etc, and useful vocabularies that include names of popular streets and buildings.

Since its launch on November 17, the learning kits have become very popular among taxi drivers.

A spokesman for the Transport Department reminded taxi drivers to bring along with them their taxi driving licences and taxi driver identity cards when they are to collect the free learning kits.

Since some distribution centres may have run out of copies, taxi drivers are advised to make a call before they set out to the specific centre.

Distribution centres that still have copies are as follows: Transport Department Licensing Offices: (Tel: 2804 2600)

	Hong Kong Licensing Office - 3/F., United Centre, 95 Queensway, Hong Kong
	Kwun Tong Licensing Office - 5/F., Kwun Tong East Government Offices, 12 Lei Yue Mun Road, Kowloon
	Kowloon Licensing Office - 2/F., Cheung Sha Wan Government Offices, 303 Cheung Sha Wan Road, Kowloon
	Shatin Licensing Office - 5/F., Citylink Plaza, Shatin KCR Station, Shatin

Post Offices:

	General Post Office - 2, Connaught Place, Central, Hong Kong (Tel: 2921 2333)
	Harcourt Road Post Office - G10-G15, Hutchison House, 10 Harcourt Road, Central (Tel: 2523 0226)
	Aberdeen Post Office - G/F., Kam Fung Building, Aberdeen Main Road, Hong Kong (Tel: 2555 9960)
	Chai Wan Post Office - Administration Building, Yue Wan Esatate, Chai Wan (Tel: 2556 4411)
	Tsim Sha Tsui Post Office - 10 Middle Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon (Tel: 2366 4111)
	Gillies Avenue Post Office - 140 Gillies Avenue, Kowloon (Tel: 2362 2727)
	Po Lam Post Office - G/F., Restaurant Block, Po Lam Estate, Tseung Kwan O (Tel: 2703 0000)
	Tai Po Post Office - G/F., Tai Po Government Offices Building, Tai Po (Tel: 2650 8702)
	Ma On Shan Post Office - Unit 2, G/F., Sunshine City Phase 4, Ma On Shan (Tel: 2633 3543)
	Fanling Post Office - G/F., Fanling Government Offices Building, 3 Pik Fung Road, Fanling (Tel: 2675 1689)
	Tuen Mun Central Post Office - Podium Level, Library and Post Office Building, 1 Tuen Hi Road, Tuen Mun (Tel: 2452 6550)
	Yuen Long Post Office - 51-53, Sau Fu Street, Yuen Long, N.T. (Tel: 2477 3037)

Also present at the visit were the Chairman of the Ad Hoc Quality Taxi Services Steering Committee (QTSSC), Mr Jeffrey Lam, and representatives from the taxi trade.

End/Monday, November 27, 2000