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$41250
160.000
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the Hong Kong side to provide for the safety of passengers
The cost of the necessary
assembling and dispersing.
reclamation and the reconstruction of the two piers referred
to above and the improvement of the Queen Victoria Street pier
to make them safe and suitable for a continuation of the
present Ferry System is estimated at $550,000. This work is
now extremely urgent and must be put in hand at once even if
the vehicles ferry berth is not substituted for it. The cost of the additional construction necessary to provide a
vehicles ferry berth on the Hong Kong side, if carried out in connection with the new provision for the passenger ferry services, is estimated at $250,000 making a total of $800,000 to provide a combined vehicles and passenger ferry pier.
16. On the Kowloon side the proposed vehicles wharf would be built at Jordan Road, thus releasing the present wharf
inside the typhoon shelter. The site chosen is convenient
and room can be found for a sufficient concourse area ( see
Plan B in Sessional Paper No.6 of 1928). It is specially suitable in view of the probable relief that would be afforded
to the very congested Kowloon Point by the removal therefrom
of all cross-harbour vehicles traffic. On this side
necessary reconstruction work has already been commenced on
the piers at Shamshuipo and Mongkok tsui. The Yaurati ferry
pier, at present in use inside the shelter is unsuitable and
requires to be reinforced and enlarged at a cost estimated at
$110,000, if it is to continue in use as a ferry pier.
scheme proposed for a vehicles ferry will, however, combine
the ferry traffic of this pier with the traffic at the proposed vehicles pier at the end of Jordan Road just outside
the shelter. The cost of the proposed vehicles ferry pier
is estimated at $500,000, and the construction of this pier would make it possible to use for public purposes the pier inside the shelter without incurring any additional expenditure.
The
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