between Navy Street and Peking Road, Castle Peak Road north of Lai Chi Kok Interchange, and Cornwall Street between Devon Road and Beacon Hill Road.
9.25
To provide safe road crossing facilities for pedestrians, two contracts for footbridges were let in December 1976 and March 1977. The first contract will provide a concrete footbridge across Ching Cheung Road and the other will provide a steel girder footbridge across the busy Choi Hung Road at the junction of Tai Shing Street.
9.26
During this year, a major contract was let for the carrying out of remedial works to a suspected dangerous slope in Sau Mau Ping opposite Block No. 34. The contract commenced in November 1976 and the works involve the removal of a considerable amount of earth and rock from the work on high cutting to regrade it to a gentler slope. This contract is well advanced.
9.27
In March 1977 a contract was let for the construction of a cargo handling area in Kwun Tong, together with the extension of Hoi Bun Road to serve this area.
The cargo handling area will embody the existing cargo handling strip at Hoi Bun Road and will provide much needed additional space for waterfront cargo handling in Kwun Tong.
9.28
A number of road projects were entrusted to the Mass Transit Railway Corporation for their implementation as these projects were within or very close to Mass Transit Railway construction sites. By entrusting them to the Corporation, possible conflict between two contractors working on the same site was avoided and the phasing of the road projects and the Mass Transit Railway construction was improved, thus minimizing the inconvenience to the public. Included in these road projects were three pedestrian subways across Nathan Road, at the junctions of Haiphong Road, Nelson Street and Argyle Street. The first one will be incorporated into the Mass Transit Railway Tsim Sha Tsui Station and will form one of the entrances to the station as well as a pedestrian subway. The other two will be incorporated into Argyle Station.
Trenches
9.29
The number of trench openings decreased slightly this year, being 4,960 compared with 5,036 last year, possibly due to the large number of works sites where trench opening is under the jurisdiction of the Mass Transit Railway Corporation.
Drainage Works
9.30
The amount of drainage maintenance works carried
109