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Saturday, January 6, 1973
AIRPORT TUNNEL CONTRACT AWARDED
To Be Signed On Monday
A local engineering company has been awarded a multi-million-dollar
contract for the construction of the second stage of the Hong Kong Airport
tunnel road.
The contract for the construction of this main section of the tunnel,
worth about $56.5 million, has been awarded to the Paul Lee Engineering Company
Limited.
The Government has accepted the tender through their consulting
engineers, Scott Wilson Kirkpatrick & Partners, who designed and are supervis-
ing the construction of the tunnel.
This tunnel forms part of an additional road connection between
Kowloon and Kwun Tong.
Work is in hand to improve the existing Prince Edward/Kwun Tong Roads
connection but even after these improvements have been completed it will not be
adequate at the end of this decade.
As there is no other land available where a relief road could be
constructed the Government decided to build a dual two-lane tunnel under the
airport runway at its northern end, continuing under the apron area and terminat-
ing at the newly reclaimed land in Kowloon Bay.
Work on the first stage involving the construction of a section of
the tunnel under the future Airport Link Taxiway is now well advanced.
The principal