SUNDAY, APRIL 15, 1984
PROPERTIES TO BE RESUMED FOR ROAD PROJECT
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THE GOVERNMENT IS TO RESUME A NUMBER OF PROPERTIES IN TUNG CHAU STREET AND TONG MI ROAD, TAI KOK TSUI, SO THAT IT CAN GO AHEAD WITH CONSTRUCTION OF A VITAL SECTION OF THE FOURTH STAGE OF THE WEST KOWLOON CORRIDOR.
CONSTRUCTION OF THE SECTION OF THE ELEVATED ROAD IS IN CATEGORY A OF THE PUBLIC WORKS PROGRAMME AND WORK IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN IN OCTOBER.
THE PROPERTIES ARE AT 79-81B, TONG MI ROAD, AND 1-25, TUNG CHAU STREET.
IT IS EXPECTED ABOUT 75 FAMILIES WILL BE REHOUSED UNDER HOUSING DEPARTMENT POLICY AND 39 SHOPS AND WORKSHOPS WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR COMPENSATION.
A LANDS AND WORKS BRANCH SPOKESMAN SAID THE SECTION IN WHICH THE PROPERTIES TO BE RESUMED WERE SITUATED WAS REQUIRED EARLY TO ENABLE THE STAGE 11 SOUTHBOUND CARRIAGEWAY TO BE OPENED TO TRAFFIC AND TO ACCOMMODATE THE INCREASED VOLUME OF TRAFFIC EXPECTED WHEN STAGE I WAS COMPLETED.
HE SAID THE WEST KOWLOON CORRIDOR PROJECT WAS OF LONG-TERM BENEFIT TO THE COMMUNITY AS IT WOULD PROVIDE A HIGH STANDARD PRIMARY DISTRIBUTOR ROUTE SERVING MAJOR LONG-DISTANCE MOVEMENTS IN THE TRAFFIC CORRIDOR IN WEST AND NORTH-WEST KOWLOON.
THE CORRIDOR, AN ELEVATED DUAL CARRIAGEWAY, WILL BE EIGHT KILOMETRES LONG, RUNNING FROM THE CROSS HARBOUR TUNNEL TO LAI CHI KOK AND BEYOND.
STAGE IV WILL RUN FROM KANSU STREET ALONG FERRY STREET, TONG MI ROAD AND TUNG CHAU STREET TO MAPLE STREET AND ACROSS THE YAU MA TEI RECLAMATION TO POK MAN STREET.
THIS STAGE ALSO INCLUDES CONSTRUCTION OF A PEDESTRIAN SUBWAY ACROSS FERRY STREET NEAR SHAN TUNG STREET, RECONSTRUCTION AND MODIFICATIONS TO THE EXISTING ROADS BENEATH THE ELEVATED STRUCTURES AND CONSTRUCTION OF ASSOCIATED ROAD WORKS AND DRAINAGE,
THE SPOKESMAN SAID THE RESUMPTION OF PROPERTIES IN STAGE IV WAS BEING CARRIED OUT UNDER THE ROADS (WORKS, USE AND COMPENSATION) ORDINANCE.
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