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Saturday, March 17, 1973
CHING CHEUNG ROAD TO BE EXTENDED
Part Of The Kowloon Foothills Corridor Route
Ching Cheung Road, which is at present being widened to a dual
two-lane carriageway, is soon to be extended.
The extension will run from its junction with Castle Peak Road
to join Kwai Chung Road near the western end of Lai Chi Kok Bay Bridge.
Costing $21 million, the new road will be provided with footpaths
for pedestrian movements. It will include an overpass section to carry
traffic over Lai Wan Road and a section on embankment across the head of
Lai Chi Kok Bay.
The present grade-separated interchange joining Ching Cheung Road
with Castle Peak Road will be modified to allow for the movement of all
major traffic routes and the uninterrupted flow along the two roads.
At the other end of the new road, a section of Kwai Chung Road
itself will be widened to provide a collector-distributor road on each side.
When completed, the new road will form the westernmost section of
the Kowloon Foothills Corridor Route at present under construction. This route
runs across northern Kowloon, linking Kwai Chung in the west to the industrial
centre of Kwun Tong in the east and is due for completion by 1975.
A notification in yesterday's Government Gazette under the Public
Reclamations and Works Ordinance fully describes the boundaries of a proposed
reclamation in connection with the road extension.
/It stipulates