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267. During the year approximately $25,000,000 was spent on the maintenance and construction of roads and bridges.
CITY ROADS, VICTORIA
268. The completion of the circular junction at Garden Road, Magazine Gap Road and Robinson Road considerably improved traffic conditions at this busy intersection. Improvements to two other important junctions were put in hand, one at Peak Road/Albany Road/Robinson Road and the other at Queen's Road East/Stubbs Road.
269. A number of roads have been rebuilt with heavier pavements to suit the increased volume of traffic, in particular sections of Des Voeux Road, Pedder Street and Lockhart Road and parts of Queen's Road, Garden Road, Caine Road and Kennedy Road. A number of secondary roads were also improved by the provision of a new wearing surface.
ISLAND ROADS--OUTSIDE THE CITY LIMITS
270. Bad weather delayed work on the extension of Tin Hau Temple Road, but by the end of the year most of the formation work had been completed. This road is being constructed to a total width of thirty-two feet consisting of a 10-ft. footpath and a 22-ft. carriageway with draw-ins for buses; a reserve has been made for widening to forty-four feet to provide for two 10-ft. footpaths and a 24-ft. carriageway when development of the area warrants it.
271. The complete realignment of Eastern Hospital Road between the Hong Kong Stadium and Cotton Path commenced. This is really a new road adjacent to, but at a lower level, than the existing one-way road which bears the same name, and is being constructed to an overall width of forty feet providing two 8-ft. footpaths and a 24-ft. carriageway.
272. A small bus terminus was constructed at North Point to replace the unsatisfactory arrangement at Kam Hong Street.
273. Extensions to Tong Shui Road, Shu Kuk Street, Kam Hong Street and Tin Chiu Street flanking the North Point Housing Estate were constructed in accordance with the North Point Development Plan.
274. The junction of Tung Lo Wan Road and Causeway Road was reconstructed and improved and a bus lay-by provided in Tung Lo Wan Road. Parts of Repulse Bay Road, Magazine Gap Road and Island Road were resurfaced and minor improvements made. Surface dressing
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