FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1987
OF AT THE NORTHERN END
BRIDGE
THE AND
CORRIDOR, CHI KOK
THE TSUEN RE-CONSTRUCTED AND WIDENED FROM FOUR-LANE TO
BETWEEN LAI
THE
CHUNG
ROAD BE
KWAI WAN
WOULD BYPASS FIVE-LANE CARRIAGEWAYS.
WORK SHOULD START NEXT YEAR AND BE COMPLETED IN MID-1991.
WOULD BE GREATLY IMPROVED
FURTHER NORTH, ACCESS TO TSING YI WITH THE OPENING OF THE TSING YI NORTH BRIDGE NEXT MONTH.
IN THE LONGER TERM,
DEVELOPMENTS WERE WEST KOWLOON OTHER FUTURE
TRANSPORT LARGE-SCALE
THE INVOLVE LIKELY TO BE
THIS WOULD REQUIRED. RECLAMATION AND THE WEST KOWLOON EXPRESSWAY CONNECTING LARGE PROJECTS SUCH AS THE WESTERN HARBOUR CROSSING AND ROUTE X.
THE DIRECTOR
MR
LAI
OF HIGHWAYS, ALSO SPEAKING AT THE CEREMONY,
WAS A HIGH SAID THAT THE WEST KOWLOON CORRIDOR HAROLD BEATON, CAPACITY ELEVATED TRAFFIC ROUTE STRETCHING FROM GASCOIGNE ROAD TO TO THE LAI CHI CHI KOK ROAD IN THE VICINITY OF THE APPROACHES BRIDGE.
KOK
IN
LATE TSUI
SINCE THE OPENING OF THE SECOND STAGE OF THE CORRIDOR 1982, FROM CHERRY STREET TO YEN CHOW STREET BETWEEN THE TAI KOK
IN ΤΑΙ KOK TSUI AND AND SHAM SHUI PO FERRY PIERS, THE COMMUNITIES SHAM SHUI PO HAD RECEIVED SUBSTANTIAL RELIEF FROM TRAFFIC CONGESTION.
SHA WAN THE CHEUNG SHA WAN SECTION WHICH RAN ABOVE THE CHEUNG
MEI ROAD RAMP, RECLAMATION, TOGETHER WITH THE TUNG CHAU STREET/TONG FORMED THE THIRD STAGE OF THE WEST KOWLOON CORRIDOR.
THE CORRIDOR SOUTHERN
USING TRAFFIC BOTH NORTHBOUND AND SOUTHBOUND WOULD FIND SUBSTANTIAL REDUCTIONS IN TRAVELLING TIME BETWEEN KOWLOON AND THE WESTERN SIDE OF THE NEW TERRITORIES.
THIS IN
TURN WOULD
BRING
RELIEF
ΤΟ
THE
CONGESTION
NOW
AND SHAM
EXPERIENCED ON THE ROADS AT GROUND LEVEL IN THE LAI CHI KOK SHUI PO DISTRICTS, MR BEATON SAID.
A
MR LEUNG, AFTER DELIVERING HIS SPEECH AND UNVEILING A PLAQUE,
A
WHICH DROVETHROUGH RODE IN
CAR BEATON, BY MR ACCOMPANIED CEREMONIAL RIBBON TO DECLARE THE ROAD OPEN.
THE 1.25 KILOMETRE-LONG ROAD TOOK TO COMPLETE AT A COST OF ABOUT $160 MILLION.
ABOUT
TWO-AND-A-HALF
IT WILL BE OPEN TO TRAFFIC FROM 10 AM TOMORROW (SATURDAY).
17
YEARS