293. Sketch plans were prepared for a pedestrian subway under Connaught Road Central near the new Star Ferry Concourse.
294. Sketch plans were also made for a number of pedestrian bridges which could be erected at various busy road junctions in Hong Kong.
TRAFFIC
295. The new Traffic Engineering Section produced a tentative Main Routes Plan for the City of Victoria, and commenced a similar plan for Kowloon.
296. The rapid redevelopment of the city and the steady build-up of both pedestrian and vehicular traffic necessitated the revision of a number of lot boundaries to permit road widening and realignment schemes to be carried out. Private architects and their clients co-operated willingly in most of these improvements.
297. A number of automatic traffic counters have been ordered to enable details of traffic flow to be recorded and so that design work may be based on more accurate information.
298. New traffic signs, pedestrian refuges and crossings with flashing beacons were installed at a number of places.
STREET LIGHTING
299. The improvement and extension of public street lighting continued with the installation of 694 new lamps and replacement of a number of gas and low-powered electric lamps by modern and more powerful lamps.
300. Seventy illuminated traffic bollards were also installed.
QUARRIES
301. The Government quarries operated by the Roads Office with direct labour produced 256,000 tons of crushed and treated stone, going far to meeting the demands of the whole department.
302. The new quarry at Mount Butler worked up to full production and by the end of the year was producing a wide range of bituminous materials in addition to crushed stone and fines.
303. New mixing plant was ordered for the Hok Yuen Quarry so that similar high-quality materials may be produced there also.
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