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d.
Recognition of the desirability of providing a ring
transportation system for road and rail services
linking Hong Kong,
Kowloon and Lantau
to the new
airport, port and metro development.
e.
Recognition of the desirability of enhancing the mass
transit railway system to East Kowloon, North West New
Territories and the new airport.
1.
More importantly, there are four essential differences from
the current core PADS projects which provide the
necessary to serve the
transportation
infrastructure
opening of the new airport in early 1997.
These are:
a.
Replacement of the main Lantau Fixed Crossing bridge
by a bridge from Ma Wan to Sham Tseng.
b. Elimination of the West Kowloon Reclamation and
Expressway.
C.
Elimination of the Airport Railway and
Railway and Local rail
service in the West Kowloon area.
d.
Bringing forward of construction of the Western
Harbour port facility.
A detailed description of what these differences involve
and a discussion of their merits is set out below.