THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1989
TAC DISCUSSES KMB FIVE-YEAR PLAN, GOVT TUNNELS
AGREED THE TRANSPORT ADVISORY COMMITTEE (TAC) TODAY (THURSDAY)
AND THE SYSTEM AT THE
ROCK TUNNEL LION THAT THE ONE-WAY TOLL
BE PURSUED IN EXTENSION OF THE TIDAL FLOW BEYOND 7.40 AM SHOULD NOT
ΤΑΙ PO ROAD, PROBLEMS TRAFFIC VIEW OF THE CONSEQUENTIAL WATERLOO ROAD AND THE SOUTHBOUND LION ROCK TUNNEL.
I I
ALONG
TO
EN "CLEMENTI"
ROUTE WERE TOLD ABOUT THE THE INVOLVED WHICH LANE AND WERE COMPLETED, AND
WORKS,
AT A MEETING HELD ON BOARD THE LAUNCH CHEK LAP KOK FOR A SITE VISIT, THE TAC MEMBERS
IMPROVEMENT ΤΑΙ
STAGE PO ROAD
UPHILL CLIMBING CONSTRUCTION OF OPENED FOR PUBLIC USE ON NOVEMBER 18.
AN
THE CAPACITY OF FOR THIS ROAD TO THE ONE-WAY
WHILE THESE IMPROVEMENT WORKS WOULD INCREASE NORTHBOUND TAI PO ROAD, IT WOULD NOT BE POSSIBLE ABSORB THE TRAFFIC DIVERTED FROM THE LION ROCK TUNNEL IF TOLL SYSTEM WERE RE-INTRODUCED.
USING THIS IS BECAUSE INCREASING NUMBERS OF GOODS VEHICLES ARE
VOLUME WHICH THE ACTUAL TRAFFIC TAI PO ROAD, THEREBY REDUCING THE ROAD IS CAPABLE OF HANDLING.
ΤΟ TAI THE TAC WAS INFORMED THAT DIVERTING NORTHBOUND TRAFFIC
ROAD THROUGHOUT PO ROAD WOULD RESULT IN INCREASED CONGESTION ON THE
ADDITIONAL THE DAY AND NOT JUST DURING THE PERIODS OF TIDAL FLOW, AND CONGESTION WAS LIKELY ALONG LUNG CHEUNG ROAD AND POSSIBLY OTHER IN KOWLOON.
ROADS
ΤΑΙ
MOREOVER, ADDITIONAL SOUTHBOUND TRAFFIC ATTRACTED FROM THE
IN INCREASED PO ROAD TO THE TOLL FREE SOUTHBOUND TUNNEL WOULD RESULT CONGESTION IN THE SOUTHBOUND TUNNEL THROUGHOUT THE DAY.
FLOW SCHEME SLIGHT INITIAL
THE TAC ALSO NOTED THAT, SINCE THE EXTENDED TIDAL
AN HAD THERE
BEEN COMMENCED ON JULY 10 THIS YEAR, REDUCTION IN THE TOTAL VOLUME OF TRAFFIC USING THE TUNNEL MORNING PEAK PERIOD, BUT THIS REDUCTION WAS GRADUALLY BEING BY NATURAL GROWTH, ESPECIALLY OF NORTHBOUND TRAFFIC.
DURING THE TAKEN UP
OF THE TIDAL FLOW CONGESTION AT
MEMBERS UNDERSTOOD THAT FURTHER EXTENSION PERIOD WOULD ONLY LENGTHEN THE QUEUES AND GIVE RISE TO THE KOWLOON END OF THE TUNNEL.
AT THE
TUNNEL, ROCK LION
INTERSECTION
TRAFFIC TO IMPROVE THE MEMBERS SUPPORTED PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS TO THE
ROADS, INCLUDING ROCK TUNNEL AND HUNG MUI KUK
INSTALLATION AND THE CONTINUOUS CIRCUIT TV CAMERAS IN KOWLOON WHICH WOULD QUEUE LENGTHS ON WATERLOO ROAD NORTHBOUND, AND FLEXIBLE OPERATION OF THE TIDAL FLOW.
BUS
LANE,
THE TAC OF LION THE PROVISION OF A OF ADDITIONAL CLOSED OF MORE
ENABLE
THE MONITORING
A PERMIT HENCE
/REGARDING GOVERNMENT