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The introduction of two new services from Sam Shing and Sham Tseng to the Tsuen Wan MTR Station were well received by bus passengers. All trips were over half full and patronage had been increasing. As a result, some 80,000 bus passengers benefited from the bus only lane scheme.
It was also found that other traffic on Tuen Mun Road experienced a slight delay of a few minutes while that on Castle Peak Road was delayed by around 12 minutes on average.
A full review of the scheme will be made in early May when the working group will also make a decision on the future of the scheme.
End/Sunday, April 16, 1995
Side spans for Kap Shui Mun Bridge completed
Construction of the Kap Shui Mun Bridge, Hong Kong's first cable-stayed bridge, is progressing smoothly with its two side spans completed earlier this month.
Over 50 per cent of the work on the Kap Shui Mun Bridge has been finished so far and the bridge is on schedule for completion in mid- 1997," the Project Director of the Highways Department's Lantau Fixed Crossing Project Management Office, Mr K C Yeung, said today (Sunday).
The Kap Shui Mun Bridge and a viaduct across the Ma Wan island are being built by Kumagai-Maeda-Yokogawa-Hitachi Joint Venture under a $1.6 billion design and construct contract awarded by the Highways Department in November 1992.
The cable-stayed bridge, carrying both road and rail traffic, will span the channel between the islands of Ma Wan and Lantau.