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Route Three (Tsing Yi and Kwai Chung Sectors)
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Route Three is an esssential part of Hong Kong's overall transport infrastructure and when completed it will provide a direct north to south link between the busy urban areas and the border with China. It will, in addition, serve development areas in the North West New Territories, the expanding port at Kwai Chung and the growing traffic in West Kowloon and Hong Kong Island.
Part of Route Three will link the Lantau Fixed Crossing to the West Kowloon Expressway and this will be an important section of the road system serving the new airport. Eventually, another bridge, the Ting Kau Crossing, will provide a connection between the airport and the northern New Territories.
The scope of Route Three includes the Kwai Chung Section, a new 500 metre crossing of the Rambler Channel (which separates Tsing Yi Island from the mainland), the east to west crossing of Tsing Yi Island in 1.6 kilometres of bored tunnel and the Tsing Yi North coastal road.
The project will include 9.5 kilometres of dual three-lane to four-lane urban expressway from the Lantau Fixed Crossing to the West Kowloon waterfront at
Lai Uni KOK.
The Design Stage One work now in progress includes the Preliminary Design of the Lai Chi Kok to Tsing Yi Sector.
Construction of the airport-related Route Three elements will start in the first quarter of 1993,
The consultants are Scott Wilson Kirkpatrick/Parsons Brinkerhoff Asia Ltd with
Haswell wuour Smitn.
The West Kowloon Reclamation
The West Kowloon Reclamation will see the reclamation of 330 hectares of land along the West Kowloon waterfront from Yau Ma Tei to Lai Chi Kok.
I ne reclamation is divided into two areas, North and South, divided by a line at Cherry Street.
The project includes the formation of new breakwaters and
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