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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1989
AIRPORT TO BE BUILT AT CHEK LAP KOK
THE GOVERNMENT HAS DECIDED TO BUILD A NEW HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT AT CHEK LAP KOK, AFTER AN EXHAUSTIVE STUDY OF THE VARIOUS OPTIONS, THE GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID WILSON. SAID TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
"IT WILL BE A TWO-RUNWAY AIRPORT BUILT TO THE MOST EXACTING MODERN STANDARDS AND ABLE TO OPERATE 24 HOURS A DAY.
"'WHEN COMPLETED, IT WILL BE ABLE ΤΟ HANDLE 80 MILLION PASSENGERS A YEAR OVER THREE TIMES THE MAXIMUM CAPACITY OF KAI TAK," HE SAID.
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WOULD BE TO OPEN THE GOVERNMENT'S AIM, SIR DAVID SAID, FIRST OF THE TWO RUNWAYS BY THE EARLY PART OF 1997.
THE
HE POINTED OUT THAT BUILDING THE AIRPORT ITSELF, ENORMOUS THOUGH THAT PROJECT WOULD BE, WAS ONLY PART OF THE STORY.
"WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT PEOPLE CAN GET TO IT EASILY AND QUICKLY," HE STRESSED.
SYSTEM AND A ISLAND AND A WESTERN
"TO DO THIS, WE PLAN TO BUILD A HIGH-SPEED RAIL SIX-LANE HIGHWAY WHICH WILL JOIN NORTH LANTAU TO TSING YI
KOWLOON RECLAMATION TO GO FROM THERE ALONG THE NEW WEST HARBOUR CROSSING AND THEN TO HONG KONG ISLAND.
THE FACILITIES NEEDED "WE WILL ALSO HAVE TO PROVIDE ALL SERVICING A NEW AIRPORT. THIS MEANS BUILDING A NEW TOWN FOR AT
AND COMMERCIAL 150,000 PEOPLE, PLUS INDUSTRIAL TUNG CHUNG VALLEY," " HE SAID.
FOR LEAST THE
IN FACILITIES,
BUILDING THE NEW AIRPORT, AND THE ROAD AND RAIL LINKS EVER ASSOCIATED WITH IT, SIR DAVID SAID, WOULD BE THE LARGEST PROJECT
AND WOULD UNDERTAKEN IN HONG KONG,
REQUIRE AN IMMENSE AMOUNT OF EFFORT FROM BOTH THE PUBLIC AND THE PRIVATE SECTOR.
IN "TO HAVE THE NEW AIRPORT SETTING TO WORK AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
OPERATION IN EARLY 1997 MEANS
MANAGEMENT OF "THE GOVERNOR
THE "THE PLANNING, CONSTRUCTION AND ULTIMATELY IT WILL BE PUT IN THE HANDS OF A NEW AIRPORT AUTHORITY, SAID.
APPOINTING
SIR DAVID SAID EARLY NEXT YEAR HE WOULD BE OF A PROVISIONAL AUTHORITY WHICH WOULD DO THE PRELIMINARY WORK THE AUTHORITY ITSELF WAS SET UP.
MEMBERS BEFORE
ONCE THE FIRST
RUNWAY OF THE
NEW AIRPORT WAS OPEN THE BE OPERATING AT
GOVERNMENT COULD CLOSE KAI TAK, WHICH WAS LIKELY TO FULL CAPACITY BY 1996, HE ADDED.
/SIR DAVID