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Friday, March 1, 1974
30 ACRES TO BE RECLAIMED AT SHAM SHUI PO
Work To Continue Round The Clock
Work on a $12.5 million contract is now under way at Sham Shui Po to
provodo a 30-acre reclamation off Tung Chau Street on which a new ferry
concourse, and other projects, including three secondary schools and a
civic centre will be built.
A section of the West Kowloon Corridor Rond project which will
link Tong Mi Road to Yen Chow Street through the Tai Kok Tsui district
will also be constructed on the reclamation.
The 900,000 cubic yards of filling material required for this
reclamation is being brought from a borrow area at Shek Kip Mei to the
east of the Cheong Street.
Because of the serious traffic congestion which exists in this
part of Kowloon, it would be extremely difficult to convey this material
through the streets in the hours permitted under the Summary Offences
Ordinance.
If the contract were restricted to normal working hours delays
in the projects which are to be built on the reclamation would be inevitable.
To avoid this situation arising the Executive Council have
granted exemption from Section B of the Ordinance to permit work to be
cerried out on a 24-hour a day basis up to March 1975.
The work will be restricted to the excavation, loading, transporting
and placing of filling material.
/Every effort ......