WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 1989
RELIEF IN ROAD CONGESTION IN SIGHT
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(WEDNESDAY)
THE CONGESTION COMPLETION NOW IN
THE GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID WILSON, WAS TOLD TODAY THAT THERE WOULD SOON BE A SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENT IN PROBLEM ON SOME OF HONG KONG'S MAJOR ROADS OF NEW ROAD AND TUNNEL PROJECTS PROGRESS, OF SOME KEY ROADS.
FOLLOWING THE AS WELL AS THE WIDENING,
SIR
THE
DURING A VISIT TO THE TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT THIS AFTERNOON, DAVID SAID HE WAS PLEASED TO HEAR THAT THE OPENING THIS SUMMER OF
EASE THE EASTERN HARBOUR CROSSING AHEAD OF SCHEDULE WOULD DO MUCH TO
TUNNEL AS WELL AS ON MASS PRESSURE ON THE EXISTING CROSS HARBOUR TRANSIT RAILWAY STATIONS ALONG THE NATHAN ROAD CORRIDOR.
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IN ADDITION, THE OPENING OF ROUTE 5 FROM SHA TIN TO TSUEN AND THE COMPLETION OF THE TAI PO ROAD WIDENING PROJECT AT THE THE YEAR, WOULD PROVIDE SOME RELIEF TO THE LION ROCK TUNNEL, THE PROBLEM OF CONGESTION THERE WOULD NOT FULLY BE RESOLVED UNTIL OPENING OF THE TATE'S CAIRN TUNNEL IN 1991.
COMMISSIONER IN THE BRIEFING GIVEN BY THE JAMES SO, SIR DAVID WAS TOLD SHORT-TERM.
THE
FOR TRANSPORT, MR THAT SUCH RELIEF WOULD, HOWEVER,
BE
WITH THE
OF PROBLEM WITH AS PART OF
THE
TRANSPORT OVERALL
DEALING LONG TERM PLANS FOR
ΤΟ BE DEALT CONGESTION WOULD HAVE DEVELOPMENT OF THE TERRITORY,
STAGE AN IMPORTANT
IN THIS PROCESS
THE WAS
SECOND PUBLISHED IN THE NEXT COMPREHENSIVE STUDY (CTS-II), WHICH WOULD BE
BY FOLLOWED
A GREEN PAPER
OUT FEW MONTHS, AND WOULD
SETTING PROPOSALS ON TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENTS AND POLICIES.
BE
PAPER SIR DAVID SAID HE HOPED THE PUBLIC WOULD STUDY THE GREEN
PROPOSALS CONTAINED IN CAREFULLY AND PUT FORWARD THEIR VIEWS ON ALL
IT.
ON THE
TRANSPORT
DEPARTMENT'S PUBLIC TRANSPORT PLANNING
THE GOVERNOR WAS BRIEFED PROPOSALS TO STRENGTHEN ITS CAPABILITY IN AND CO-ORDINATION FOLLOWING ITS RE-ORGANISATION IN MAY.
IMPORTANT
HE COMMENTED THAT THIS WAS AN DEPARTMENT'S WORK AND ONE WHICH ATTRACTED MUCH INTEREST.
AREA OF THE PUBLIC ATTENTION AND
PLANNED COMPUTERISED SIR DAVID EXPRESSED KEEN INTEREST IN THE
ΤΟ BE BUILT ADJACENT то THE VEHICLE EXAMINATION CENTRE VEHICLE EXAMINATION CENTRE AT KOWLOON BAY.
I
EXISTING
THE NEW CENTRE WOULD PROVIDE EXTRA CAPACITY INSPECTION SCHEME TO COVER ALL AFTER FIRST REGISTRATION.
GOODS VEHICLES
AT
FOR WIDENING THE ANNUAL INTERVALS
/HE HOPED