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On Hong Kong Island, detailed planning and design on the Island Eastern Corridor, joining Chai Wan through Shau Kei Wan, North Point, Causeway Bay and Wan Chai to Central District is well advanced. Work on the first phase of this project has begun and is expected to be completed by 1985–6. Other projects under planning and design include the section of Route 1 from the Aberdeen Wholesale Fish Market to the Aberdeen Tunnel, the improvement to May Road including grade separation at the junction of Magazine Gap Road, and improved facilities for Gloucester Road, Connaught Road Central and Connaught Road West, Route 7 from Kennedy Town to Aberdeen, and Route 81 from the Aberdeen Tunnel to Stanley.
Works completed on the island include the Aberdeen Tunnel, which was partially opened to traffic in March 1982 (and will be fully open at the beginning of 1983); the interim widening of Island Road between Wong Chuk Hang and Deep Water Bay, now open to traffic; the permanent public cargo area on the Western Reclamation; the widening of Tin Lok Lane; and the slip exit road towards North Point from the Cross Harbour Tunnel. Work on the Tai Hang Road flyover and the widening of the section of Pok Fu Lam Road from Pokfield Road to Hong Kong University was progressing well. Construction also commenced on the grade-separated interchange in Queensway to join Central District with the developments on the former Victoria Barracks site, the Gloucester Road flyover, the Pak Fuk Road extension, and the grade-separated junction of Tai Hang Road and Blue Pool Road.
In Kowloon, access to Kwun Tong was greatly improved by the partial opening of the Airport Tunnel in June (fully opened by the year-end) and several new roads in the Kowloon Bay development area, including a grade-separated interchange at Wai Yip Street. The construction of a major section of the West Kowloon Corridor at Tai Kok Tsui was also completed and partially opened during the year, facilitating traffic flow between Yau Ma Tei and Lai Chi Kok. Construction of the last section of Lung Cheung Road near Hammer Hill, and the northern elevated road from Ngau Tau Kok to Kowloon Bay, was making good progress; work commenced on the southern elevated road late in the year. A start was also made on the construction of a grade-separated interchange along Waterloo Road at its junction with Cornwall Street and Junction Road. Planning and design work continued for improvements to Gascoigne Road and Chatham Road and for an elevated vehicular link between the eastern and western portions of Kowloon Tong.
In the New Territories, work on the New Territories trunk road and the New Territories circular road improvement progressed satisfactorily, while the Wo Hop Shek interchange was completed and opened to traffic in the second half of the year. Designs were completed for the various stages of the New Territories trunk road from north Tai Po to Lam Kam Road and from Lam Kam Road to Wo Hop Shek. Also completed was the improvement to Tsing Yi Bridge; the construction of a dual, two-lane carriageway between Anderson Road and Hiram's Highway on Clear Water Bay Road; and the improvement to Tai Po Road between the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Tai Po Mei. Construction of the Clear Water Bay Road improvement from Hiram's Highway to Hang Hau Road, the widening of Kwai Tsing Road, and a grade-separated interchange at Pillar Island has started. In addition, preliminary planning on the improvement of Hiram's Highway to form a dual, two-lane carriageway between Clear Water Bay Road and Ho Chung, together with a vehicular flyover at the junction of Hiram's Highway and Clear Water Bay Road, was under way.
Road works related to the Kowloon-Canton Railway (KCR) modernisation programme were progressing well. The KCR level crossing at Island House has been replaced by a
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