DR. LAM (in Cantonese) : Sir, the public at large will, I
am sure, welcome the swift passage of this Bill. Because
it is only by completing the Tate's Cairn Tunnel that the
nightmare and the nuisance caused by the conjestion of the
can be
We should really pay tribute
Lion Rock Tunnel/resolved.
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to those have contributed
to the construction of the
Tate's Cairn Tunnel and that of course includes the
villagers of the Un Ling Village who had been there for
three hundred years. Their village and their
hall of two centuries history will henceforth disappear
ancestral
from the map.
Clause 5 of the Bill
Concerns
provides for the liability
that durin
afthe
to be borne by companies during the process of the
construction. Residents are concerned that in the process
of
construction, there
pollution and they are
excessive
will be excess environmental
worried that there will be an
accumulation of soil and stone in water ditches and drains
which might give rise to flooding in case of heavy
rainfall. There is no clear provision in the Bill
in case of loss incurred by the
concerning liability
residents.
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work
The Bill provides that the construction must be
(must
completed within 30 months of the day of commencement.
It
is hoped that there will not be any delay.
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