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Point and Quarry Bay as an extension of the Waterfront Road Scheme.
In Kowloon, the construction of the flyover at Chatham Road/ Gascoigne Road was completed while substantial progress was made on the Pui Ching Road/Fat Kwong Street intersection which, when completed, will further improve traffic flow on the major traffic link between Tsim Sha Tsui and the eastern New Territories via Lion Rock tunnel.
The detailed design of the full North East Kowloon corridor scheme to improve the existing road network which carries 100,000 vehicles per day between Kowloon and the new town of Kwun Tong was nearing completion. This scheme commenced with the award of the first contracts for the $40 million flyover complex at Kowloon City and Prince Edward Road/Choi Hung Road round- abouts. The planning was well under way on the extension of Lung Cheung Road/Ching Cheung Road which will form an important link between Kwai Chung in the New Territories and San Po Kong in east Kowloon. Preliminary planning was started for a primary distributor road along the western Kowloon waterfront to link Lai Chi Kok and Yau Ma Tei areas.
Extensive road reconstruction continued throughout Kowloon to remedy the deterioration of roads which were built shortly after the war and which were not intended to carry the heavy traffic loads now common in the urban areas. Progress was also made on a number of new projects and improvements in the New Territories.
To make the most of the existing road network, traffic management techniques continued to be applied. Good progress was made in the installation of traffic light signals to improve traffic operations at road intersections and pedestrian crossings, a total of 182 sets being in use by the end of 1969. In addition, approval was given for the commissioning of the ‘TRANSIT' computer programme to calculate the best settings and phasings of the Nathan Road Linked Signals. The improvement and extension of the public street lighting system continued with total of 1,843 new lamps being installed during the year.
Further studies of a scheme for a Mass Transit system commenced, to assess the effect of revised population projections on the recom- mended system, to ascertain the most suitable alignments and first
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