TRANSPORT |Coutinho urges gov’t to disclose traffic study findings

Lawmaker José Pereira Coutinho has urged Macau’s government to disclose the findings of a research study conducted on the topic of the city’s traffic and population mobility behavior between 2009 and 2014.
“The Transport Bureau (DSAT) commissioned a survey to a private company for MOP5.3 million to assess Macau’s traffic situation and population mobility behaviors in 2014,” he stated in a written enquiry, adding that citizens have questioned the utility of such a study.
The lawmaker argued that residents have filed complaints with the Citizens’ Support Office, which claimed that DSAT’s study was not useful, and was therefore “a waste of time and public money.”
Residents, he added, also claimed that the questions posed during the survey were similar to existing surveys in the monthly bulletins, which were conducted by the Census and Statistics Services.
Coutinho claimed that there have been no improvements to the region’s public transport system since 2009, and concluded by asking the question, “What kind of concrete results have DSAT’s survey provided?”