Thursday, July 26, 1973
MURRAY ROAD MULTI-STOREY CAR PARK OPENS ON MONDAY
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The new Murray Road multi-storey car park with provision for 900
parking spaces will open on Monday (July 30).
The Commissioner for Transport said today that parking facilities
would be available on floors one to eight with the exception of 28 spaces
on the eighth floor.
The use of the car park will be limited to private cars, goods
vehicles of an unladen weight not exceeding two tons, public care and private
and public light buses.
Motorists entering or leaving the building do so by the alip road
parallel to Cotton Tree Drive.
Vehicles from North Point and Wanchai can enter via Harcourt Road
and the slip road under Cotton Tree Drive, while vehicles from Central
District can travel via Chater Road, Murray Road and Queensway, turning left
into the slip road.
Appropriate traffic signs will be erected to guide motorists.
With the opening of the multi-storey car park, the existing temporary
one occupying a section of land bounded by Harcourt Road, Murray Road, Queensway
and Cotton Tree Drive will be olosed to all parking from midnight on Saturday
(July 28).
The Commissioner pointed out that a large portion of this land had
been sold for redevelopment and would be handed over to the omers on August 1.
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