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I have started with these communications projects because they are basic to Hong Kong's development. The
spreading out of the City and its population into new
areas with access to new land is essential if it is to
achieve not only better living standards but new investment, new industries and new economic flexibility. But of course the roads, railways and tunnels are only the
start; one must add to them everything from drains to swimming complexes, water supply and sewage plants to
cultural centres, offices, fire stations and police stations, which form part of Government programmes in the urban areas, the three major towns and three
smaller ones in the New Territories. And then there
are the hospitals, the clinics, the schools and so on.
It must be the largest programme undertaken by any City Public Works Department in the world.