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The Airport
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79.
Last
October,
I said that a range of studies was
being carried out
to
devise a strategy for the long term
development of our port and airport. These have now been
completed. They show that there is a clear case on economic
grounds for building a new airport as soon as possible.
80.
the
After an exhaustive study of the various options,
Government has decided to build a new Hong Kong
Airport at Chek Lap Kok.
It will be a
International
modern
two-runway airport built to the most exacting
standards and able to operate 24 hours a day. When
completed, it will be able to handle 80 million passengers
a year over three timco the maximum capacity of Kai Tak.
Our aim will be to open the first of the two runways by the
early part of 1997.
81.
Building
the
project will be, is
airport itself, enormous though that
only part of the story. We have to
make sure that people can get to it easily and quickly. TO
do this we plan to
six-lane highway which
build a high-speed rail system and a
will join North Lantau to Tsing Yi
Island and go from there along the new West Kowloon
Reclamation to
a Western
Harbour
Crossing and then
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