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CONTRACT AWARD FOR WEST KOWLOON EXPRESSWAY
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MONDAY, JULY 19, 1993
NORTH SECTION
THE CENTRAL TENDER BOARD HAS ACCEPTED A HK$1,270 MILLION TENDER SUBMITTED BY KUMAGAI-MAEDA-CRABC JOINT VENTURE FOR CONSTRUCTION OF THE WEST KOWLOON EXPRESSWAY NORTH SECTION.
A GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN SAID TODAY (MONDAY) THAT THE NORTH SECTION WOULD LINK THE SOUTHERN LIMIT OF THE KWAI CHUNG VIADUCT OF THE ROUTE 3 PROJECT AT MET FOO TO THE NORTHERN LINIT OF THE WEST KOWLOON EXPRESSWAY SOUTH SECTION AT TAI KOK TSUI.
THE MAJOR ITEMS OF WORKS INCLUDE THE BUILDING OF A 2.7-KILOMETRE-LONG DUAL THREE-LANE ELEVATED EXPRESSWAY, A SECTION OF DUAL THREE-LANE GROUND LEVEL ROAD BENEATH AND ALONGSIDE THE EXPRESSWAY, AND ASSOCIATED OVERBRIDGES AND FOOTBRIDGES.
TENDERS WERE RECEIVED FROM SIX PREQUALIFIED TENDERERS AND THE JAPANESE/CHINESE JOINT VENTURE COMPRISING KUMAGAI GUMI (HK) LIMITED, MAEDA CORPORATION AND CHINA ROAD AND BRIDGE CORPORATION SUBMITTED LOWEST BID OF HK$1,270 MILLION.
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CONSTRUCTION WORK WILL START NEXT MONTH AND IS EXPECTED TO BE COMPLETED IN THE LATER HALF OF 1996.
THE AWARD OF THE WEST KOWLOON EXPRESSWAY NORTH SECTION CONTRACT BRINGS THE TOTAL NUMBER OF GOVERNMENT-FUNDED CONTRACTS AWARDED ON THE AIRPORT CORE PROGRAMME (ACP) TO 23 WITH A TOTAL VALUE OF ABOUT $26 BILLION.
TOGETHER WITH THE FOUR CONTRACTS AWARDED BY THE PROVISIONAL AIRPORT AUTHORITY VALUED ABOUT $9.7 BILLION, THE TOTAL VALUE OF CONTRACTS AWARDED ON THE ACP IS ABOUT $35.7 BILLION.
ALL THE CONTRACTS WERE AWARDED WITHIN BUDGET AND ARE FOR COMPLETION ON TIME.
SCHEDULED
CITYBUS LAUNCHES 26 ROUTES IN SEPTEMBER
CITYBUS WILL. START OPERATING 26 ROUTES ON SEPTEMBER 1, A SPOKESMAN FOR THE TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT SAID TODAY (MONDAY).
THE SPOKESMAN SAID OVER THE PAST 10 MONTHS CITYBUS ACTIVELY PREPARING FOR THE LAUNCHING OF THE SERVICES.
HAD BEEN
70M,
72.
THEY ARE ROUTES 98, 48, 61, 76, 6, 6A, 72A, 92, 70, 72B, 75, 90, 96, 97 AND 97A IN THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT; ROUTES 1, 5, 5A, 5B, 10X, 12 AND 12M IN WAN CHAI AND CENTRAL AND WESTERN DISTRICTS, AND TWO CROSS HARBOUR ROUTES 107 AND 170.
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