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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1988
SOME OF THE PROJECTS UNDER CONSIDERATION INCLUDED:
EXTEND FROM
AND THE KOWLOON
BORDER TO WEST THE THIRD HARBOUR
* ROUTE 3. THIS ROUTE WOULD
THE NORTHWEST NEW TERRITORIES THROUGH TSING YI AND THEN TO WESTERN HONG KONG ISLAND VIA CROSSING.
IT WOULD COMPLEMENT THE EXISTING TUEN MUN KOWLOON CORRIDOR WHICH WERE PREDICTED TO BE THE MID-1990'S.
HIGHWAY AND WEST AT CAPACITY BY
* THE JUNK BAY MTR EXTENSION AND THE NORTHWEST NEW
RAIL LINK TO TUEN MUN OR YUEN LONG.
TERRITORIES
THESE PROPOSED RAIL EXTENSIONS WOULD GROWING NEW TOWNS IN TUEN MUN, YUEN LONG AND JUNK BAY TO URBAN AREA.
CONNECT
THE
FAST THE
* A LIGHT RAIL LINK CONNECTING
FURTHER TO DIAMOND HILL.
MA ON SHAN TO ΤΑΙ WAI
AND
IN VIEW OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW
ALONG POPULATION KOWLOON CANTON RAILWAY LINE IN NORTHEAST NEW TERRITORIES, WAS DEEMED NECESSARY TO MAKE FURTHER LINKS AVAILABLE MIDDLE OR LATE 1990'S TO MEET INCREASING TRANSPORT DEMANDS.
THE
IT
BY
THE
* A THIRD HARBOUR RAIL CROSSING.
WOULD
ACROSS THE HARBOUR IT WAS EXPECTED THAT THE TWO RAIL LINKS (TSIM SHA TSUI TO ADMIRALTY AND LAM TIN TO QUARRY BAY) BE FULL BY THE MID-1990'S.
CTS-2 WOULD PROVIDE USEFUL INFORMATION TO HELP DETERMINE AND WHEN THIS LINK SHOULD BE PROVIDED.
HOW
MR LEUNG SAID THAT APART FROM PREPARING DETAILED ROAD
THE INFRASTRUCTURE AND PUBLIC TRANSPORT DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES, WAS ALSO TASKED TO REVIEW TRANSPORT PLANS AND POLICIES UP TO THE 2001.
CTS-2
YEAR
IT WOULD ALSO PROVIDE A COMPUTERISED TRANSPORT MODEL WHICH
TAKE INTO ACCOUNT FUTURE CAPABLE OF BEING UPDATED TO POLICIES, PLANS AND CIRCUMSTANCES.
WAS CHANGES IN
BUT DESPITE THE MASSIVE AND
AMBITIOUS PROJECTS THERE WAS CONGESTION COULD BF REDUCED AND LIMIT AS TO BY HOW MUCH IMPROVED BY CONSTRUCTING NEW ROADS AND RAILWAYS, CONGESTED URBAN AREAS, MR LEUNG SAID.
A
MOBILITY PARTICULARLY IN THE
"CONTINUED
APPLICATION OF
VARIOUS TRAFFIC
MANAGEMENT
AND MAXIMISE THE
ENGINEERING MEASURES IS THEREFORE NECESSARY IN ORDER TO USE OF EXISTING ROAD SPACE, HE SAID.
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