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will start in a few months time on the second phase of Hong Kong's most ambi- tious reclamation project to date. the Kwai Chung development scheme which will provide more than 500 acres of new land for in- dustry as well as for housing.
This new industrial and residen- tial area will form part of the fast- expanding industrial town of Tsuen Wan which. when finished, will have a total population in the re- gion of 1.000.000.
When all the three stages of the development scheme are complete. it will be. like Kwun Tong, an- ther step towards solving the Colony's most pressing long-term problems the desperate shortage of land and a critical need to keep housed and employed its multiply- ing population.
The Hong Kong Government has called for international tenders
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for the second stage of the scheme. which involves the terracing of the Lai Chi Kok and Texaco headlands and the building of a new motor road along the coastline from the Lai Chi Kok Road to Texaco Road.
The reclamation and the road works associated with it will change the whole stretch of coastline be- tween Lai Chi Kok and Tsuen Wan. The new motor road will form an- other western road artery between Kowloon and the New Territories.
Although Tsuen Wan lies only five miles to the north-west of Kow- loon, the new town will have its own housing estates, shopping centres. and schools to make it a satellite town entirely self-contained.
The first stage of the Kwai Chung development scheme, which began just over 13 months ago, is now almost complete. In this phase. access roads have been built into the Lai Chi Kok and Texaco
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headlands, Other engineering works include the construction of storm water drains and sewers.
The whole scheme is designed and supervised by Messrs. Scott & W son. Kirkpatrick and Partners. con sulting engineers to the Hong Kong Government. in collaboration with the Public Works Department.
The second stage is the largest of the three development stages and is expected to last for three years. starting early next year.
It involves the terracing of the Lai Chi Kok and Texaco peninsula to provide some 115 acres of forme ed land for residental use. The ex cavated material. totalling abou six million cubic yards. will be dumped into Gin Drinker's Bay to provide another 105 acres of form ed land for both residential and in dustrial use.
The terraces on the two head lands will be served by a network of lands will be served by a network of roads with a total length of about nine miles. These roads will hav two-lane carriageways 24 feet in width and varying widths of foot paths.
To give satisfactory road com munications to this new develop ment area, a new motor road will be built along the coastline from the Lai Chi Kok Road to Texaco Road
This coastal road. with dual carriageways 24 feet in width. will cross Lai Chi Kok Bay by means of a bridge and then run along the coastline of the Lai Chi Kok penin sula, across the reclamation and fr ally join the Texaco Road near it existing junction with Gin Drink- er's Bay Road.
The motor road will form an- other western road artery betwee Kowloon and the New Territories It will be virtually level over the whole of its length except for slight
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