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CHINA NEW HARBOUR BRIDGE PLAN
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with all interested parties and borings carried out to a suffi- clant depth along the alignment depided after mich discussions,
The Advantages
The advantages claimed for a
да are
follows bridge
The odat would be lower capitai maktenance corts would be Lower: the construction time would be les toil changes could be tower; traffic carrying capacity would be greater and transit time would be shomber". There would be less risk of accident, fire and consequential traffic hold-up and chooe; foot and evole trafile could cro30 the bridge; siling for the Island approaches would be better with beiter traffic routeing and leas congestion. A fly-over crossing would be posible at the Garden Road-Queen's Road Junction and there would be no need to commit Muray Barracks
and the Parade Ground after their
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act the obstruction that
harbour. given prime consideration in the selection of the bridge align- ment. Various studies
hove been made of proposed siling of the piers and is suggested
show clearly that these
that the piers need not in fact prove obstructive.
This tactor must be
Bridge Described
CHATHAM RA
HOLTS
SIGNAL
STATION
(b) The maximum distance is provided between Holt's Wharf and the pler to the south of it, with o view to allowing auf-
BLACK HEAD
11 11 lunDGE 10 HONG KONG
berth. It is believed that the 170, are maitably boniced. It is feet clearance would suffice for thought that some road layout ali linors aport from the largest on the best illustrated would Liners on the trans-Atlanile give a better dispersal of traffic route. To cater for all of these, than the roundabout of the of shipping entering increased to about 205 feet, Road could if necessary be re-
which though practicable would taimed-as a service road. put
пр the cost and extend the approaches.
·WANCHAI FERRY AD,}
BRIDGE TO KOWIDON
LOCKHART
HORRISON HILL
These blocks show the road approaches to the bridge from Kowloon and Hongkong.
under-pase Ats ini with the To City and Western Districts handled without dilleully. The general ground levels on
roundabout and majority of traffle to and from sito. A loop rood is provided to Queen's Road East or via round- the City, and Western Districts allow traile to enter or leave about at Kennedy Road, or via would have to pass through the the bridge: via. Hermessy Road.
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cient space for the pass-thro clearance would have to be tummel scheme, Half of Chatham This loop passes under Wanghai) loop road and Hennessy, Road.
age harbour. (c) The bridge world not obstruct visdon from the Signals station on Black- head, except over a small sector at the western extremity
of its opera- tional pre. (It may be that over this sector shipping would be visible under
the bridge.)
It might be necessary to change the positions of certain of the swinging buoys,
So for es the new airport is concerned, the level of the top of the bridge
on the Kowion approach would be within tho height limitations that have on S-bend (d) Although
Is bean set, and the first high pier, required on the Kowloon
800 feet to the south of Holt's approach, this is a co- Wharf, would be outside the venient means of losing break-away path to be used by freight.
aircraft.
(e) On the Island side. the
approach could run down Tonnochy Fond which again enables height be lost.
170ft Clearance
to
The bridge
been that has studied is a cantilever bridge with suspended Mans between the cantilever sections. There are Ave inain spans across the barbour, cach 100 feet long. The underside of the girders in 170 feet above the level of maxi- min high water spring tides. except at the haunches of the cantilevers where this clearance is reduced,
The top of the the four merin piers Alders #t Ita Insight of 265 feet, falling
A clearance of 170 feet under to 225 feet over the
suspended There are twe road decks water spring
the girders ot maelmum high spars
tides has been the above
other,
The provisionally selected na il is to the Island thought it would be traffic travelling
adequate using the upper dock and Kow• | fr ali
'British existing foon traffic the lower. Each road American warshipe,
and deck is 28 fret wide between chant ships, and all troopships kerbs, which is sufficient for and Bnera
at present entering hures of traffic travelling in the
Hongloong.
Depart from the same direction. Two lanes would Caronia. This ship visita almost certainly be adequate for annually on a cruise, and it is the traffic, the third being used understood that there are as a "breakdown" one. There
number of poris, Including are footways on either side of
Singapore, the lower decks--carried NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES | cantilevers ourisice the main girdere. A cycle track can also be provided by the same means and use could be made of the bridge for cross harbour utility pervices.
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The piers are of ribbed con- struction above level of about plus 20, where they sit on cellular concrete monoliths, oval in shape, and measuring 130 feet long by 00 feet wide. The latter would bo constructed within steri caissons, and carried down
the foundation
The design below the sea bed. and depth of the foundations would depend upon the materials in the sea bed. The latter are likely to comprise a layer of sill in areas of shallow water, a layer of marine deposits, pre- dominantly sandy, a layer of decomposed granito containing boulders, and, probably at considerable depth, solid rock. The foundation level would probably have to be 70 feet or more below sea bed level, un-
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Icss rock were encountered stove this depth. Where depth lo rock
excessive, tho monoliths would be founded on sand ur decomposed granite. The Piers themselves would be heavily fendered to minimise damage in the event of contact.
The lateral force from
wouki typhoon on the bridge not in itself be difficult to cater for,
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The heavy foundations for a bridge of this magnitude would | always present a problem ST. extremely adverse circum- stances
encountered. word Nevertheless, a wide variety of dimculties have been overcome in the construction of major and it is un- existing bridges likely that similar difficulties could not be overcome in Hong- kong if they, in fact, are pre- pent. If it is agreed that the proposal that a bridge is likely lo ba the best harbour crossing menita serious consideration, it would be necessary to put down
of
borings deep a
series before deciding upon the final design of the foundations and. estimating their cost.
It is anticipated that it will taloe five years
and
bridge ancillary worka,
to erect
completo
The Alignment
The the
As already mentioned, the effect on slipping in the har- bour would be of prime Im- portance in selecting the align- ment of the bridgo. The general location would have bo bộ, governed by the most suitable points for handling the bridge. traffic on the Island Kowloon, which are considered to be tim Morrison Hill area and Chatham Itoath. Some prelimin- ary. thought was given to four | alignments, between these points, The alignement for the,, present Vilustrative 'purobots: was, "select=" cd for the following reaMOCI. (B)! (a)• Thà plors on the Kowtom: Have kde oro clear of Holt's
mor-
The Approaches
it is clear that the limiting fuctor in the potential capacity of a bridge would be the handl- ing of traffic on the appronches to it. This would require a com- prehensive traffic study, and it is certain what Ure relatively smail expenditure of providing really adequate means of traffic dispersal would be well, justi- fled. The scheme that is out- to be lined below is intended Illustrative only.
Kowloon Approach. The road decks start descending from a point 200 feet to the south of the pier alongside Holt's Wharf. The descent gradient is 1 in 15 throughout, where she does not
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Island Approach. The rond decks start descending from point 750 feet from the water- front
The descent gradient is in 17 throughout. The positions of the piers in Tonnachy Road are such that they could either be split to allow traffic to run betweens them, or be of the hammerhead type permitting traffic to run on either side of a relatively
central MITOW column. The intensity of traffic on the roundabout at the Stubby Road-Queen's Road East june- tion is onsed by the provision of an under-pass for through traffic on the latter road. This
Road, so that of this point there are four road levels at elevationis of approximately 110, 90, 40, and 20 foot.
Traffic Problem
A
Traffic Routes, On the Kow-
is likely that loon aide it considerable volume- of bridge trafßle could be handled without much difficulty. On the Island, however, the problem would re- quire very careful consideration. An example of traffle routeig is as follows--
vin roundabout,
And
"bottle-neck" of the Cricket Ground roundabout and the From City
Western section of Queen's Road East Districts — Involves crossingying between the Cricket westbound truffle on Hennessy Ground and the junction with Road, either at junction with Hennessy Road. Queen's Fun East or at junc-
tion with loop road. The latter At present the main delay in due to the is probably preferable, routeing his bottle-neck" trame as indicated on the plan hold-up of traffic at the south- 40 as to provide a right angie east corner of the rouminbout,
and
It is therefore suggested croming.
that a fly-over cloning be pro- Enstern Districts-vided at this point. A plan of To roundabout and Morrison Hill
a fly-over crossing has such Road (would have to cross weNÍ-
been prepared. This drawing bound traffic at Causeway Bay shows. half of Queen's Road via Hennes ramped up to over-pags Garden Road and loop road with route toad. roundabout) or
It I thought that a fly- ing as inifiented on the drawing
avier on these lines would bo right angis able to
handle all the traffic that can at present be
corried Districte by Queen's Road East,' and
Road providing a clear · route
To and from Stubbs Road to provide
To and from Happy Valley area -ditto.
Mid-Levels via round- To about; Kennedy Road und MDC-
Plans On Display donnell Road.
Coples of the plam and photography illustrating the proposed crofa - harbour bridge will be on display from today in the offices of Elarriman Realty Ca Ltd, 7th Noor, Edinburgh Поче (Queen's It ond entra.hoe).
These may be scen the public at any during business hours.
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crossing.
From Eastern Either via Morrison Hil and roundabout or via Hennessy private cars down to the main Road and loop road.
pred parking
in the Central District it would go a long way to ensinar the traffic problems in this area.
Island Traffic
Traffic Capacity
Mid-Levels-vla Ken- From nedy Road and roundabout. At function of Kennedy Road and
The sling of the Queen's Roard East traffic Hights
bridge entrance in the Morrison. Hill or Police would have, to stop
anca would enable traffic from westbound traffic on the latter
Eastern Districts,
Happy road. At this Junction cosbound the
With the provision of the fly- traffic оть Queen's Road East Valley area, Stubbs Road and over, the "bottle-neck" would would not be permitted to turn the Peak to travel to and from become the traffic capacity, of right up Kennedy Road, but the bridge
At present passing Queen's Road East, without would have to use the mound- though the heavily tenficked carries mixed male includ- about.
in the Central District, ing aries, buses, bicycles and Traffic from
those
areas would rickshaws, in addition to trame, To and from the Peak and
It is unlikely that its roundabout
be likely South-vta
to constitute more and either Blue Pool Road or Stubbs than 50 per cent of the bridge capacity could much exceed 2,500
traffic, and could probably bo Road.
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Under th prestat cirmim- stances therefore it is unlikely.... that it could handle a very large volume of bridge trafic, and it would in linse become necessary either to route some
traffic to and from the
bene via Kennedy Road, or to move the capacity of Queen's
In this latter case would also become nectary to widen the fly-over, and perhaps construct an extension to the The p-over layout could be extended to handle any traffle that could be carried by Queen's Road East, and it is considered that it would
provide
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mach "more effective and certain solution to the traffic problem in this area, than a roundabout,
Hard To Predict
It will be oppreciated that the capacity of a roundabout is dif- ficult to predict, as it depends upon such factors on the type of traffic and the experience of drives. When it is considered that not many years ago the
| peak volume of traffic on the west side of Hyde Park Corner wad 3,600 vehicles per hour, It pogum the question whether the volume of 4,000 vehicles par hour on the short leg of the roundabout of the tunnel pro- posade
could
ever in met be The Reportin accomplished, 1948 of the Departmental Com- mitive set up by the Minister of War Transport suggests an up- por limit of 8,000 vehicles per hour on any one side of a | rounda/)sout.
To sum up
the on
only apprect- iablo over-loading of the present road system that would be likely. to rwult from heavy bride tramo
would be at the
bottle codes of the Cricket Ground
roundabout and
Road East. The
neck" at the
'Queen'
the "boltin
mainlabout, and
over would provision of a If it is not practicable to in crease the capacity of
Emet,
Rood
a
ort queen's
City bridge tramon of the
would have to be routed vio
that there measured are
preflcable Aut it is therefore concluded that heavy bridge traffic, could 60 handlet on the Island witzim (pit ·enumirig congestion
Estimated Cost
It so mot intended to bring Into theme calculations revenLLE arising directly or indirectly from the romulant land develop mest omthe
the Kowloon side of the harbour age
An estimate on present rul priqué: Dow, the 'couf.pẩ