Friday, May 18, 1973
ELEVATED ROAD TO EASE CONGESTION IN YAU MA TEI
Work on a 2,200-foot long elevated road running from Gascoigne
Road to the Yau Ma Tei typhoon anchorage is expected to start later this year.
The project represents the first stage of the massive West Kowloon
Corridor scheme which will provide a major road route, to distribute traffic
in the urban areas of western Kowloon and connecting these areas with Tsuen
Wan and Kwai Chung to the north.
The elevated road will start from Gascoigne Road near its junction
with Wylie Road, then continue along Gascoigne Road and Kansu Street to the
reclamation in Yau Ma Tei typhoon anchorage near Tung Kun Street.
A novel feature of the road is that it will run right through
the Yau Ma Tei Multi-storey car park extension.
It is believed that it will be the first major roadway in Hong
Kong to pass through a car park.
When completed by 1976, it will form a direct link for the cross-
harbour tunnel with the proposed Tong Mi Road extension through the typhoon
anchorage.
Sufficient reclamation for the road works at the typhoon anchorage
is likely to be completed in about six weeks.
A spokesman for the Public Works Department said today that tenders
for the elevated road project would be called next month.
The government,