TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1989
8
GREEN PAPER PROJECTS NECESSARY IRRESPECTIVE OF AIRPORT DECISION
IN
THE
THE $29 BILLION TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE PROGRAMME OUTLINED
TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT POLICY HAS TRANSPORT ON THE GREEN PAPER
THE PROGRAMMES, HOUSING
TRANSPORT TRANSPORT NEEDS OF PUBLIC
GROWING CROSS-BORDER TRAFFIC, MR MAX CHUN-FONG,
TODAY
IMPLICATIONS OF THE METROPLAN AND THE
TRANSPORT, THE DEPUTY SECRETARY FOR (TUESDAY).
SAID
IN TIMING AND SCALE ONCE A
IT WOULD, HOWEVER, BE ADJUSTED DECISION IS MADE ON THE REPLACEMENT AIRPORT, HE SAID.
DEVELOPMENT IN THE SPEAKING ON THE "TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE
MAK NEXT DECADE" AT A DINNER MEETING OF THE LIONS CLUB OF KOWLOON, MR
IRRESPECTIVE OF SAID THE PROPOSED ROAD AND RAIL PROJECTS WERE NEEDED WHETHER THE AIRPORT WOULD BE RELOCATED.
THE THE HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION PROGRAMME WAS INTENDED TO IMPROVE
THE NEEDS FOR LINKING NORTH-SOUTH AND EAST-WEST ROAD LINKS TO MEET THE NEW TOWNS AND THE URBAN CENTRES, AND PROVIDING ADDITIONAL CROSSINGS AND CROSS BORDER LINKS.
EASTERN
HARBOUR
HARBOUR CROSSING, AND THE WIDENING OF EASTERN PART OF
HE SAID WITH THE COMPLETION OF THE KWUN TONG BYPASS, TATE'S CAIRN TUNNEL, ROUTE 5 TAI PO ROAD, THE NORTH-SOUTH TRANSPORT LINKS IN THE THE TERRITORY WOULD BE WELL-ESTABLISHED BY THE EARLY 1990's.
THE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME FOR THE NEXT DECADE, WOULD THE WESTERN SIDE.
FOCUS ON
AND
THE EXPANDING
WOULD PROVIDE COMPLETED,
FAST DEVELOPING
CONTAINER
ROUTE 3 WHICH, WHEN
THE LINKING
BORDER TERRITORIES TO THE EVER
AN EXPRESSWAY NORTHWESTERN
АЯ TERMINALS
NEW WELL AS
PROVIDING ANOTHER MAJOR NORTH-SOUTH LINK TO THE WEST OF THE TERRITORY.
MR MAK SAID WITH THE CONTINUOUS GROWTH
OF THE NEW TOWNS IN AND THE TATE'S CAIRN
EASTERN NEW TERRITORIES, THE LION ROCK TUNNEL TUNNEL WERE EXPECTED TO REACH PLANNED CAPACITY IN THE LATE 1990'S.
IN ORDER TO AVOID THE RECCURRENCE
OF TRAFFIC CONGESTION NOW A TUNNEL,
NEW EXPRESSWAY, ROUTE 16. EXPERIENCED AT THE LION ROCK
FOR DEVELOPMENT IN CONNECTING SHA TIN AND WEST KOWLOON WAS PROPOSED THE MID-1990'S TO MEET DEMAND.
IN THE COSMOPOLITAN AREA, HE SAID, THE EAST-WEST ROAD LINKS KOWLOON AND ON HONG KONG ISLAND WERE EXPECTED TO BE UNDER PRESSURE THE NEXT DECADE.
THE
DEVELOPMENT
OF THE WEST EXISTING AIRPORT
IN
IN
AND THE AIRPORT WAS IN EAST-WEST
KOWLOON RECLAMATION
SITE, IF THE REDEVELOPMENT OF THE RELOCATED ELSEWHERE, WOULD GENERATE A TREMENDOUS GROWTH TRAFFIC IN THE KOWLOON PENINSULAR IN THE LATE 1990'S.
/MR MAK