Monday, February 11, 1974
MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR ROAD SCHEME IN KWUN TONG
To Improve Traffic Flow
Plans are in hand to construct an alternative route to Kwun
Tong Road as part of the North East Kowloon Corridor Scheme.
The project is designed to improve traffic flow in the Awun
Tong area, as well as to facilitate development of the Kowloon Bay
Reclamation,
Funds amounting to $25 million have recently been approved by
the Finance Committee.
The new route will be a dual-two-lane extension of Wai Yip
Street running parallel to and just to the west of Kwun Tong Road. It
will join Kwun Tong Road about mid-way between Clearwater Bay Road and
Ngau Tau Kok Road.
The project is being carried out in two parts. The first and
major phase, on which work has already started, involves the construction of
a grade separated intersection at the place where the new road joins Kwun
Tong Road, and the construction of a section of the mass transit railway
tunnel.
This tunnel will lie under Kwun Tong Road, linking the mass
transit Kowloon Bay depot with the railway system itself, and has to be
built in conjunction with the present road project.
The grade separated intersection will allow both eastbound and
westbound traffic to merge with and diverge smoothly from the main Kwun
Tong Road traffic.
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