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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1987
NEW KWONG FUK BRIDGE TO OPEN
THE NEW KWONG FUK BRIDGE ACROSS LAM TSUEN RIVER IN TAI PO WILL BE OFFICIALLY OPENED ON SUNDAY (DECEMBER 20) MORNING.
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THE RECENTLY completed pedESTRIAN AND CYCLIST BRIDGE WAS
BRIDGE WHICH WAS DEMOLISHED AFTER THE ADJACENT OLD KWONG PUK YEAR.
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NAMED LAST
REPAIRED AND THE OLD BRIDGE, BUILT IN 1896 AND SUBSEQUENTLY
ALSO WIDENED IN 1957, HAD TO BE CLOSED DUE TO STRUCTURAL DEFECTS AND
THE TAI PO CENTRAL AREA HAD TO MAKE WAY FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF
AIMED AT SCHEME A LONG-TERM TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT RATIONALISING THE TRAFFIC PATTERN IN THE DISTRICT.
SCHEME
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BUILT WAS
NEW BY THE
TERRITORIES DEPARTMENT
THE NEW KWONG FUK BRIDGE NORTH EAST DEVELOPMENT OFFICE OF THE TERRITORY DEVELOPMENT AT A COST OF $2.37 MILLION.
CONSTRUCTED IN TO COMMEMORATE THE OLD BRIDGE, THE NEW ONE WAS
BRIDGE WAS USED CHINESE STYLE AND THE GRANITE BALUSTRADE OF THE OLD
OF THE AS PART OF THE BUILDING MATERIAL FOR AN OPEN SPACE AT ONE END NEW BRIDGE. ↓
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WILL BE DRAGON AND HELD AFTER THE
AT THE OPENING CEREMONY ON SUNDAY, THERE
BE WILL ON DANCES. A COOKTAIL BRON-CUTTING CEREMONY.
RECEPTION
WORKING GROUP ON UNDER THE DISTRICT
THE OPENING CEREMONY IS CO-ORGANISED BY THE THE OPENING CEREMONY FOR KWONG FUK BRIDGE FORMED BOARD'S PROMOTION AND PUBLICITY COMMITTEE, THE TAI PO RURAL COMMITTEE, THE SAI KUNG NORTH RURAL COMMITTEE AND THE TSAT YEUK RURAL COMMITTEE.
DISTRICT
OFFICIATING AT THE CEREMONY WILL BE THE ACTING TAI PO
(NEW TERRIORIES NORTH OFFICER, MISS WINDY KWOK; THE PROJECT MANAGER
MR STEPHEN WONG; EAST), MR TOM ARMOUR; THE DISTRICT BOARD CHAIRMAN, CHAIRMAN OF THE TAI PO RURAL COMMITTEE, MR HO YUNG-SANG; THE SAI KUNG NORTH RURAL COMMITTEE, MR LAM PAK-PING; AND THE TSAT YEUK RURAL COMMITTEE, MR MAK LAM.
CHAIRMAN OF CHAIRMAN OF
NOTE TO EDITORS:
YOU ARE INVITED TO COVER THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE BRIDGE
BRIDGE IS OUTSIDE TAI PO AT 10 AM ON SUNDAY (DECEMBER 20). THE
TAI PO GOVERNMENT OFFICES BUILDING AT 1 TING KOK ROAD.
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