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then issued by the Director of Public Works in accordance with Section 31 of the Cross Harbour Tunnel Ordinance (No.28 of 1969).
1.10 The problem of pedestrian traffic was energetically tackled and a comprehensive programme for the construction of footbridges at various locations was formulated. Detailed structural designs for some of these footbridges were undertaken. Two footbridges, one over Choi Hung Road and one over Princess Margaret Road, were completed for the use of pedestrians.
1.11 As a result of increase in car ownership, traffic congestion and shortage of parking spaces continued to be a problem. Traffic management techniques continued to be applied in order to extract maximum capacity from the existing road network.
1.12 Large-scale site formation and reclamation continued and a total of 124 acres of land was formed on Hong Kong Island and in Kowloon and the New Towns in the New Territories. A start was made on Stage V of Central Reclamation on Hong Kong Island.
1.13 Investigations for a number of pollution-control projects were in progress. These included the provision of complete sewage treatment for north-west Kowloon and Sha Tin, the building of additional refuse incinerators and the opening of sites for the controlled tipping of refuse. A special study on pollution aspects of a proposed oil refinery on Lamma Island was well advanced.
1.14 Further designs for the private developers' proposals for the three container-terminal lots at Kwai Chung were approved; two berths were brought into use while the third was well advanced.
1.15 At Kai Tak Airport, overlaying the existing runway with a new surface and work on the road tunnel under the Airport commenced while extension of aircraft parking aprons and taxiway facilities continued. Reclamation for the 2,530-foot runway extension was completed and the construction of breakwaters between it and Kwun Tong, to form a typhoon shelter, commenced.
1.16 Work continued on the new railway terminus at Hung Hom, where track-laying and construction of a podium over the tracks and of buildings at track level were in hand.
1.17 To implement further Government's policy on private quarrying, tenders were called and a contract signed for the right to quarry stone on a large scale at Cha Kwo Ling for ten years from mid-1974.
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