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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1975
TUEN MUN ROAD LINK
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WORK BEGINS TOMORROW (SATURDAY) ON A $24 MILLION ROAD TO LINK THE CENTRE OF TUEN MUN NEW TOWN WITH THE $300 MILLION TUEN MUN ROAD NOW BEING BUILT FROM TSUEN WAN TO A POINT ON THE HILLSIDE NEAR THE DRAGON INN ABOVE CASTLE PEAK ROAD.
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R. NICKY CHAN NAI-KEONG, THE TUEN MUN NEW TOWN PROJECT MANAGER, PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT GOVERNMENT ENGINEER, SAID THE 1.7-KILOMETRE LINK ROAD MARKED AN IMPORTANT PHASE IN THE DEV.LOPMENT OF TUEN MUN INTO A NEW TOWN,
BY JOINING UP WITH THE MAJOR TUEN MUN NEW ROAD IT WILL PRO IDE A MODERN THREE-LANE HIGHWAY FOR CLEARWAY TRAFFIC BECEN TUEN MUN AND TSUEN WAN.
THE LINK ROAD SHOULD BE COMPLETED IN THE LATTER HALF OF 1977 AND THE ENTIRE TUEN MUN - TSUEN WAN EXPRESSWAY SHOULD BE OPEN BY THE END OF 1977.
MR. CHAN POINTED OUT THAT WITH THE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME OF TUEN MUN NEW TOWN AND THE EXPANSION PROGRAMMES FOR TSUEN WAN AND KWAI CHUNG NOW IN FULL SWING, THERE WAS AN OBV OUS NEED FOR A MODERN HIGHWAY IN ADDITION TO THE EXISTING CASTLE: PEAK ROAD.
HE SAID THAT THIS ROAD PROJECT AND THE TUEN MUN ROAD PROJECT HAVE BEEN SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED TO CATER FOR THE LARGE VOLUME OF TRAFFIC EXPECT TO BE GENERATED BETWEEN THE TOWNS.
CITING STATISTICS ON POPULATION PROJECTIONS, MR. CHAN SAID THAT TUEN MUN WOULD HAVE AN ULTIMATE POPULATION OF HALF A MILLION IN ABOUT 10 YEARS' TIME, WHILE TSUEN WAN AND KWA I CHUNG WOULD HAVE A TOTAL OF ANOTHER 850,000.
HE ADDED THAT THE NEW ROUTE WOULD MEAN A MARKED SAVING IN TRAVELLING TIME BETWEEN TSUEN WAN AND TUEN MUN, CUTTING THE JOURNEY TO ABOUT 15 MINUTES.
GIVING DETAILS OF THE NEW ROAD PROJECT, WHICH IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT'S NEV TERRITORIES DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT, MR. CHAN SAID THAT THE ALIGNMENT OF THE ROAD EXTENDED FROM THE HIGH GROUND AT THE DRAGON INN AND OVER THE CASTLE PEAK ROAD AT SAM SHING HUI BY MEANS OF A SIX-SPAN REINFORCED CONCRETE BRIDGE.
IT WILL THEN RUN ALONG RECLAIMED LAND ON THE EASTERN PART OF CASTLE PEAK BAY TO A GROUND LEVEL INTERCHANGE WITH PUI TO ROAD AND CASTLE PEAK ROAD, HE SAID.
THE CONTRACT FOR THE PROJECT WAS SIGNED ON OCTOBER 17, AND WORK BEGINS TOMORROW FOLLOWING THE SUCCESSFUL (LEARANCE OF SQUATTERS ON THE HILLSIDE AT SAM SHING HUI TODAY BY THE NEW TERRITORIES ADMINISTRATION.
THE CONTRACT