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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1987
TUNNEL USERS TO PAY $3 FROM MONDAY
*
FROM 3 AM
SOUTH BOUND ON MONDAY (DECEMBER 21), ALL NORTHBOUND MOTORISTS WILL HAVE TO PAY THE NORMAL TOLL OF $3 FOR THE LION ROCK TUNNEL.
AND
USING
THE TRANSPORT ANNOUNCING THIS TODAY (FRIDAY), A SPOKESMAN FOR
WHICH HAS BEEN CARRIED DEPARTMENT SAID THE ONE-WAY TOLL EXPERIMENT
AT 3 AM ON OUT AT THE TUNNEL SINCE NOVEMBER 23 WILL COME TO AN END MONDAY.
BE "AT THE SAME TIME, PRE-EXPERIMENT TRAFFIC ARRANGEMENTS WILL
MONDAY RESUMED. MOTORISTS USING THE LION ROCK TUNNEL SOUTHBOUND FROM
TRAFFIC DIRECTIONAL SIGNS AND SHOULD ONWARDS SHOULD WATCH OUT FOR
11 HE ADDED. STOP AT THE TOLL BOOTHS TO PAY THE TUNNEL TOLL OF $3,
FOLLOWING ARE THE
NUMBER
OF VEHICLES USING THE LION THE EVENING AND MORNING PEAK TUNNEL AND TAI PO ROAD DURING YESTERDAY (THURSDAY) AND TODAY, RESPECTIVELY:
ROCK HOURS
LION ROCK TUNNEL
SOUTHBOUND
TAI PO ROAD
NORTHBOUND
SOUTHBOUND
NORTHBOUND
DECEMBER 17 (4.30 PM
7,222
6,927
1,657
2,052
-
7 PM)
NORMAL WEEKDAY
7,274
6,995
2,358
2,085
(4.30 PM - 7 PM)
DECEMBER 18
9,294
6,407
2,760
2,205
-
(7 AM 10 AM)
NORMAL WEEKDAY
9,309
6,615
2,812
1,874
(7 AM
-
10 AM)
MEANWHILE,
A
"TIDAL-FLOW" SECOND TIME.
WAS
CARRIED
AT
THE TUNNEL FOR THE
THE ARRANGEMENT STARTED LATER
7.45 AM.
AND
OUT ARRANGEMENT
EXPERIENCE, BASED ON YESTERDAY'S TODAY AT 6.15 AM AND ENDED AROUND
VEHICLES PASSED THE QUEUE ON LION
AN EXTRA DIRECTION.
640
AM BETWEEN 7
AM, 7.30 THROUGH THE TUNNEL IN THE SOUTHBOUND ROCK TUNNEL ROAD DID NOT APPEAR UNTIL 7.40 AM.
HOWEVER,
TRAFFIC CONGESTION NORTHBOUND APPROACH TO THE LION ROCK TUNNEL.
TOWARDS THE END OF THE ON THE WAS OBSERVED
TIDAL ROADS
FLOW LEADING
ARRANGEMENT,
ΤΟ
THE
/FOLLOWING ARE