WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1987
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DECISIONS
"ALL FORECASTS, NO MATTER HOW WELL PREDICTIONS. IN NORMAL CIRCUMSTANCES
ON A CAUTIOUS
BASED, THERE IS A
BASIS
DUE
ARE NO MORE THAN
TENDENCY TO THE
MAKE TO SCALE OF
INVESTMENT EXPENDITURE INVOLVED.
CROWDED BARLIER THAN A LACK OF
"THE FACT THAT TUNNELS AND ROADS BECOME EXPECTED DOES NOT, HOWEVER, REFLECT A LACK OF PLANNING OR DETERMINATION TO IMPROVĖ.
WILL
THE IN "WITH THE BEST INCREASE FASTER THAN EXPECTED DUE TO GROWTH.
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TRAFFIC WORLD, FASTER THAN
DORS EXPECTED
SOMETIMES ECONOMIC
AS RECENTLY AS MR LEUNG SAID THAT SOMETIMES, AS WAS THE CASE
THEIR TOOK
TOLL IN THE FOUR OR FIVE YEARS AGO, LESS BUOYANT TIMES FORM OF FINANCIAL STRINGENCY, AND THE NEED TO DELAY EXPENDITURE BETTER TIMES RETURNED.
BASIC CHANGES
THE
UNTIL
IN THE YEARS,
INVOLVE WOULD OTHERWISE "TO PROCEED PRUDENT FINANCIAL POLICY WHICH HAS SERVED US SO WELL OVER AND WHICH IS THE FOUNDATION OF SO MUCH OF OUR ECONOMIC STRENGTH.
ON MEASURES TO ALLEVIATE
THE CROSS
SERIOUS TRAFFIC
TUNNEL, HARBOUR
WITH AWAY,
CONGESTION
MR
LEUNG THE EASTERN
LION ROCK TUNNEL AND SOLUTION TO THE LATTER WAS NOT FAR CROSSING DUE TO OPEN IN UNDER TWO YEARS FROM NOW. TATE'S CAIRN WOULD TAKE LONGER.
AT THE SAID HARBOUR TUNNEL
A
COULD BK DONE HE ADDED THAT A STUDY WAS UNDERWAY TO SEE WHAT
THE THERE WERE WAYS OF INCREASING IN THE MEANTIME, AND IT SEEMED
BETWEEN SHA
BEFORE TIN AND KOWLOON CAPACITY OF THE ROAD NETWORK TATE'S CAIRN TUNNEL OPENED.
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"I HOPE TO BE ABLE TO MAKE AN ANNOUNCEMENT JANUARY, HE SAID.
ON THIS IN BARLY
TURNING TO OTHER
PROJECTS
INCREASING
TRAFFIC TO OBJECTIVE AN ADEQUATE ROAD
TO
WITH COPE ALSO THE GOVERNMENT'S DEMAND, MR LEUNG SAID IT WAS ENSURE THE SMOOTH FLOW OF CROSS-BORDER TRAFFIC AND NETWORK TO COPE WITH TRANSPORT TO AND FROM CHINA.
STAGES IN HE SAID THE LOK MA CHAU BRIDGE, TO BE OPENED IN TWO
THE PRESENT 1989 AND 1990, WOULD INCREASE CROSS-BORDER CAPACITY FROM
PRESENT PROJECTION 12,000 VEHICLES PER DAY TO OVER 50,000. SHOULD BE SUFFICIENT UNTIL THE END OF THE CENTURY.
ON
THIS
THE
ROAD NETWORK
IN
THE NEW
TERRITORIES
ALSO HAD AMPLE
OF CAPACITY TO COPE WITH TRANSPORT TO AND FROM CHINA, WITH A CAPACITY
CIRCULAR ROAD. UP TO 150,000 VEHICLES PER DAY ON THE NEW TERRITORIES
TSING YI AND KOWLOON AND ROUTE X LINKING YUEN LONG WITH TSUEN WAN, AND THE WESTERN HARBOUR CROSSING WAS STILL TO COME.
NOW
LIGHT THE HAND IN OTHER MAJOR PROJECTS TRANSIT SYSTEM DUE TO OPEN NEXT YEAR, AND ROUTE 5 LINKING SHA TIN TSUEN WAN, DUE TO OPEN IN 1990.
INCLUDED
RAIL
AND
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