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and an intermediate level, at nine feet. will be used for car parking and the servicing of buildings within the area.
Buildings with the Dockyard area will rise to various heights. marked in the plan. and are recommended to be used for commercial and re- sidential purposes and form a major extension of the business, cultural and entertainment facilities of the
city.
This pedestrian deck will provide a traffic-free shopping precinct and will have easy access from below where parking areas will be laid out for 2.600 cars.
Main pedestrian access will be from the eastern end of Chater Road, which will be redesigned to lead people up gradually through an avenue of shops to the 19-foot level
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and then over the new Murray Road into the development.
Between these two raised pedes- trian areas will be the City Hall complex and a garden square run- ning from the present Statue square to the Star Ferry terminal. This area will be entirely free from vehicles.
The Board considered a number of proposals for the Garden Road Queen's Road junction, and having accepted the principle that the tram- way would have to remain for many years, adopted a modification of an overpass system which had been ap- proved in principle by the Public Works Department and the Secre tariat some years earlier.
This modified scheme provides for traffic going east down Garden Road to pass over the trams and traffic in
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Queen's Road and for traffic going from the city to the mid-levels to pass by means of a second bridge over Queen's Road and the trams to a new road parallel to Garden Road on the east side of Murray Barracks.
The timing of the construction of this junction," says the report, "and the detailed design of the structure is a matter for further investigation. The Board is satisfied however that this proposal will meet the demands of traffic for many years to come and considers that it can be designed so as not to detract materially from amenity. The opportunity should be taken to plant suitable trees in the adjoining open space so as to break the line of the elevated roadways when seen from a distance.”
The ring road system recommend- ed by the Board is a development of
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