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to the major road projects coming on stream over the next five
Further
years.
Future projects under study or investigation include
Route X linking Yuen Long with Tsuen Wan, Tsing Yi and Kowloon
and, in due course, its extension via a future West Kowloon
Expressway and Western Harbour Crossing.
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very massive
Despite all this,
this
is effort and expenditure we still have
problems, as I am constantly reminded.
There is serious
congestion at the Lion Rock Tunnel in peak hours, and at the
Cross Harbour Tunnel for much of the working day.
A solution
to the latter is not far away, with the Eastern Harbour
time Crossing due to open in under two years' from now.
Tate's Cairn
Tunnel will take longer. A study is, however, underway to see what can be done in the meantime, and it seems there are ways
of increasing the capacity of the road network between Shatin (a/exp
and Kowloon before Tate's Cairn Tunnel opens.
sometime
I hope to be
able to make an announcement on this in early January.
announce
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But congestion must be looked at in perspective. general, transport planning must be based upon certain assumptions regarding the growth of the economy, of traffic, in the number of vehicles of different types, and the travelling
the
needs of people in New Yowns and between the New Towns and the urban areas. All forecasts, no matter how well based, are no
In normal circumstances there is a more than predictions.
tendency to make investment decisions on a cautious basis due to the scale of expenditure involved.
The fact that tunnels