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China.
Included in the network will be a new route
from Hong Kong Island to the North East New
Territories, passing through the Eastern Harbour
Crossing (tunnel), now being built by a private
consortium at an estimated cost of HK$3.4 billion, a
by-pass round the industrial area of Kwun Tong and a
further tunnel under Tate's Cairn to Sha Tin, also to
be built by the private sector. A new road (Route 5)
is also being constructed, largely in tunnel, between
Sha Tin and Tsuen Wan and will provide an alternative
route to the container port.
59.
The major railway works undertaken over the
last decade on the Mass Transit Railway (MTR) and the
Kowloon Canton Railway (KCR) are now largely
finished.
The Eastern Harbour Crossing, when
completed in late 1989, will, however, contain a much
needed additional MTR harbour crossing which will
link the Island Line with the Kwun Tong line. The
KCR Corporation is also developing a new Light Rail
Transit System in the new towns of Tuen Mun and Yuen
Long, the first phase of which should open in
August 1988. Earlier in 1987, as well, a new much
expanded terminal building was opened at the KCR
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