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In the meantime, work on 12 other flyovers and interchanges
is expected to begin within the next six months.
These include two grade separated junctions on Hong Kong Island
one at Garden Road/Magazine Gap Road/Robinson Road and the other at
Garden Road/Queensway.
In Kowloon, four interchanges will be built at the intersections
of Hammer Hill Road, Sha Tin Pass Road, Fung Mo Street and Nam Cheong
Street to improve traffic flow in Lung Cheung Road.
The new Lai Chi Kok Hospital Interchange is also in an advanced
stage of design and work should begin shortly.
Work is also expected to start within the next few months on
the flyovers at Kwun Tong Road/Lai Yip Street; the West Kowloon Corridor
from Gascoigne Road to Tong Mi Road; and the elevated road from Prince
Edward Road to Lai Chi Kok Road.
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The spokesman said: "Despite this volume of work, there is
still no place for complacency, and we have further plans in the pipeline.
In fact at the prosent moment 30 flyovers and interchanges 12 on Hong
Kong Island, 15 in Kowloon and three in the New Territories are at various
stages of planning and design."
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Another way of improving traffic conditions, he pointed out, could
be achieved by segregating pedestrians and motorists.
In this regard, the spokesman said 67 pedestrian footbridges or subways had been opened for public use over the past 12 years and 68 new ones
were included in the Public Works Programme.
Note to Editors:
Copies of an aerial photograph showing the Wanchai flyover complex are boxed for collection.
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