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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1988
INVESTMENT IN TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE OUTLINED
*
NEED
то
HONG KONG WOULD INFRASTRUCTURE TO COPE WITH AN ENORMOUS
INVEST
IN TRANSPORT HEAVILY INCREASE IN THE VOLUME OF ECONOMIC GROWTH,
COMMERCIAL TRAFFIC USING THE ROADS DUE TO THE RAPID THE GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID WILSON, SAID.
BILLION ON
SIR DAVID
NEW ROADS TOLD THE
"THAT IS WHY WE SHALL BE SPENDING $1.9 THIS YEAR COMPARED WITH $1.6 BILLION IN 1987-88, LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
COMPANIES
INVESTING
THE EXTENDING WELL
TATE'S
BEYOND
APART FROM PROJECTS BUILT BY THE GOVERNMENT, PRIVATE ALSO DEMONSTRATED THEIR CONFIDENCE IN HONG KONG'S FUTURE BY
CROSSING AND IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE EASTERN HARBOUR CAIRN TUNNEL, "PROJECTS WITH PAYBACK 1997, SIR DAVID NOTED.
PERIODS
ROADS, SIR
INCREASE IN THE DAVID SAID, AND
RAPID ECONOMIC GROWTH HAD LED TO AN ENORMOUS VOLUME OF COMMERCIAL TRAFFIC USING OUR PRIVATE CAR OWNERSHIP HAD RISEN SHARPLY SINCE EARLY LAST YEAR.
OPENING THE HE SAID: "IN RECENT YEARS, RAILWAY AND THE UPGRADING OF THE KOWLOON-CANTON TO RELIEVE PRESSURE ON THE ROAD SYSTEM.'
"
OF
THE MASS TRANSIT RAILWAY HAVE HELPED
THE
A NUMBER OF MAJOR FACILITIES WERE CURRENTLY BEING BUILT BY
SHA TIN GOVERNMENT, INCLUDING THE KWUN TONG BY-PASS, ROUTE 5 LINKING
ROAD WITH TSUEN WAN, THE FINAL STAGES OF THE NEW TERRITORIES CIRCULAR AND THE JUNK BAY ROAD TUNNEL, THE GOVERNOR ADDED.
KONG AND CHINA HE POINTED OUT THAT ROAD TRAFFIC BETWEEN HONG
300,000 "THERE ARE NOW MORE THAN HAD INCREASED EIGHTFOLD SINCE 1981. VEHICLE TRIPS ACROSS THE BORDER EACH MONTH.
ROAD LINKS WERE BEING IMPROVED TO DEMAND, SIR DAVID SAID.
MEET THIS EVER INCREASING
STAGE I OF THE NEW LOK MA CHAU BRIDGE WOULD BE END MIDDLE OF NEXT YEAR, AND THE SECOND STAGE BY THE THE UPGRADING OF SHA TAU KOK ROAD WOULD START IN 1989.
PROJECTS
AND RAILWAY
OPENED IN THE OF 1990 WHILE
BEING
IMPROVEMENTS OTHER MAJOR ROAD PLANNED FOR THE LONGER TERM INCLUDED ROUTE 3, FORMERLY CALLED ROUTE X, TSING LINKING THE NORTH-WEST NEW TERRITORIES AND HONG KONG ISLAND VIA YI AND THE PROPOSED WEST KOWLOON RECLAMATION.
A DETAILED ENGINEERING STUDY WOULD BEGIN THE BEST ALIGNMENT.
SHORTLY то IDENTIFY
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