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MEMORANDUM FOR EXECUTIVE COUNCIL DESE OFFIC
Streets (Alteration) Ordinance (Chapter 130)
INDEX
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CORNWALL STREET/WATERLOO ROAD/JUNCTION ROAD GRADE SEPARATED INTERSECTION - NEW KOWLOON INLAND LOTS NOS 5195 AND 917 REMAINING PORTION
Crown Lands Resumption Ordinance
(Chapter 124)
PROPOSED RESUMPTION OF PART OF NKIL NOS 839,
863, 905, 906, 912, 913, 914 SECTION A, 914 RP,
915, 916 AND 917 RP
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Streets (Alteration) Ordinance (Chapter 130) Cornwall Street/Waterloo Road/Junction Road Grade Separated Intersection - NKIL No 5195
As one of the final phases of the Kowloon North-East Corridor road network, the Public Works Department proposes to construct a 600 metres long, four-lane, elevated road along that portion of Waterloo Road from Suffolk Road to Lung Cheung Court over the junctions of Cornwall Street, Junction Road and the access road to the Baptist College. The scheme, as illustrated on the plans at Annex A, also involves the widening on both sides of that portion of Waterloo Road from Norfolk Road to Cornwall Street; the widening of that portion of Waterloo Road from the Baptist College to Lung Cheung Court; the construction of a footbridge across Waterloo Road near Suffolk Road and the alteration of those portions of Suffolk Road, Somerset Road, Dorset Crescent, Junction Road, Cornwall Street and the access road to the Baptist College at their respective junctions with Waterloo Road. The project is in Category A of the Public Works Programme at a cost of $42 million. Work is due to start in March 1978 and will take 36 months to complete. The proposed roadworks are essential to cope with the increasing volume of traffic on Cornwall Street, Junction Road and Waterloo Road which can be expected to rise substantially on further development of Sha Tin and with the forth- coming opening of the new racecourse.
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In accordance with section 3 of the Streets (Alteration) Ordinance, notice of the proposed roadworks was first published in the Government Gazette and in the English and Chinese press on 25th February 1977. In response to the notification, a total of six objections were received by the Director of Public Works during the one month
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