FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1978
FOOTBR (DGE SYSTEM FOR CENTRAL
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A MULTI-MILLION-DOLLAR COVERED FOOTBRIDGE SYSTEM IN CONNAUGHT ROAD CENTRAL WILL BE BUILT SHORTLY TO PROVIDE A SAFE DIRECT PEDESTRIAN ACCESS BETWEEN CENTRAL BUSINESS AREA AND THE PUBLIC TRANSPORT TERMINALS.
TENDERS FOR THE WORK WERE INVITED TODAY BY THE HIGHWAYS OFFICE OF THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT.
MR. CHOI YU-LEUK, ACTING CHIEF ENGINEER OF THE CONSULTANTS MANAGEMENT DIVISION OF THE HIGHWAYS OFFICE, SAID WORK ON THE 480 METRE-LONG FOOTBRIDGE, THE LONGEST IN HONG KONG, WOULD BEGIN IN JULY AND TAKE ABOUT TWO YEARS TO COMPLETE.
+THE PURPOSE OF THE FOOTBRIDGE, WHICH WILL RUN FROM GILMAN STREET TO PEDDER STREET, IS TO PROVIDE AN ELEVATED WALKWAY TO SEPARATE PEDESTRIANS FROM VEHICULAR TRAFFIC IN CONNAUGHT ROAD CENTRAL,+ HE SAID.
+IT WILL ALSO PROVIDE A SAFE AND DIRECT PEDESTRIAN ACCESS TO THE PUBLIC OPEN SPACE NOW UNDER CONSTRUCTION ON THE NORTHERN SIDE OF THE CONNAUGHT ROAD CENTRAL.+
MR. CHOI SAID THAT THE FOOTBRIDGE SYSTEM WOULD CONSIST OF A MAIN WALKWAY ALONG AND ABOVE THE NORTHERN FOOTPATH OF CONNAUGHT ROAD CENTRAL.
THE EASTERN END OF THE FOOTBRIDGE AT PEDDER STREET WOULD BE CONNECTED TO AN EXISTING FOOTBRIDGE ADJACENT TO CONNAUGHT ROAD CENTRAL.
THE MAIN WALKWAY WOULD BE LINKED TO THE EXISTING FOOTBRIDGE ABOVE THE CENTRAL BUS TERMINUS AND THE HIGH LEVEL PROMENADE.
MR. CHOI SAID: THERE WILL BE TWO FOOTBRIDGES CONSTRUCTED ACROSS CONNAUGHT ROAD CENTRAL WHICH WILL BE LINKED TO THE MAIN WALKWAY - ONE TO BE SITED NEAR THE FIRE BRIGADE BUILDING AND THE OTHER ABOUT 40 METRES EAST OF GILMAN STREET.
+TO FACILITATE PEDESTRIAN MOVEMENT, A TOTAL OF SEVEN COVERED ESCALATORS AND COVERED STAIRWAYS WILL BE PROVIDED.+
THE SCHEME HAS BEEN DESIGNED AND CONSTRUCTION WILL BE SUPER- VISED BY CONSULTANT ENGINEERS, MESSRS. PALMER AND TURNER, ON BEHALF OF THE HIGHWAYS OFFICE OF THE P.W.D.
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