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Friday, January 16, 1976
STREET ALTERATIONS DUE TO MTR WORKS IN NATHAN ROAD
Construction of the Mass Transit Railway stations and tunnels in
Nathan Road between Salisbury Road and Boundary Street will begin in March
this year and will be completed by the end of 1979.
This part of the system includes the construction by cut-and-cover
methods of undergrounds stations at Tsim Sha Tsui, Jordan Road, Waterloo Road,
Argyle Street and of works near Prince Edward Road and Boundary Street.
The running lines between these works will be constructed by bored
tunnel methods. The stations include the construction of entrances and
ventilation shafts which will appear as permanent ground level structures.
However, before work can start on this section of the Mass Transit
Railway, certain street alterations and diversions affecting principally
Nathan Road and Shanghai Street, have to be made.
Details of the street alterations and diversions are notified in
today's Government Gazette.
The road alterations involve various traffic diversions and re-
routings which will be implemented at different dates during a four-month
period and which will result in a new traffic routing plan becoming operative
to facilitate the construction of the stations in Nathan Road.
Details of this new traffic routing plan, which will come into
operation before the Mass Transit Railway construction work starts, will be
announced through the mass media,
Traffic diversions will be substantial and all classes of vehicles
will be affected.
/In general