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Tunnel which provides a direct road link between Kowloon and the eastern New Territories. A toll tunnel, it was officially opened by H.E. the Governor on 14th November, 1967.
1.09. Detailed planning of road connections for the cross-harbour tunnel continued in association with the tunnel consultants, although a firm decision on this project was still awaited at the end of the year. On Hong Kong Island the reservation for the tunnel landfall is on the Wan Chai Reclamation, still under construction. This reclamation also provides land for the new waterfront road, from Wan Chai to North Point, on which work was commenced. Further stages of the ambitious Garden Road complex, designed to relieve traffic congestion in the Central Area, were completed and in Kowloon the Lai Chi Kok Bay bridge, the longest in the Colony, was nearing completion.
1.10. In its third report, published in October 1967, the Housing Board recommended a combined Resettlement and Government Low Cost Housing Programme to provide accommodation for 990,000 people in the six years from 1st April, 1967 to 31st March, 1973. The end of the first year of this six year programme saw the completion of buildings to accommodate 164,250 people while buildings to house another 301,000 were under construction.
1.11. The superstructure of the new Government Offices on the former Murray Barracks site was started. This building will have 27 storeys and will house the majority of the Public Works Department.
1.12. Work continued on the final stages of the Plover Cove Water Scheme. By February 1967 the main dam had progressed to the stage when it was possible to start pumping out sea water. This pumping-out continued throughout the Spring and on 26th June, 1967 the impounding of fresh water was started. In spite of the very dry summer, some 10,850 M.G. were in storage on 1st October and water from Plover Cove was first put into supply on 5th October, 1967.
1.13. In September 1967 the department was instructed to undertake a planning and engineering feasibility study of the Pilot Scheme Area referred to in the Report of the Working Party on Slum Clearance. This area of 12.8 acres lies between Queen's Road and Hollywood Road and includes some of the worst slum property on Hong Kong Island.
1.14. The year under review saw the completion of two very important reports, namely the Passenger Transport Survey 1964-66 and the Hong Kong Mass Transport Study. The aim of the former report was to
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