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This can be done by utilising the existing Railway
There can be few line from near the Diocesan Boys School. opportunities in any town of comparable size for so magnificent an Approach Road: and there is hardly a single building to be demolished : the southern portion could run parallel to but at a different level to Lower Chatham Road(which will be retained for riparian building and also to give access to the reclaimed land in Hung Hom Bay).
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There is not much road improvement otherwise required in Kowloon, which has an excellent number of wide roads, laid out, owing partly to topography, on a free bold pattern. Several important, but minor matters will of course have to be settled e.g. the approach to the new Railway Station : the best approach to Tai Tak Xthe new satellite) through the Ma Tau Kok Trading estate
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Kai Tak (the central Kowloon City Road, or the two bounding Roads,
Ma Tau Wei or Kwa Wan Roads).
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The chief difficulties
will be found at the intersections.
The large Community units (enumerated in Section 2) have been carefully disposed so that in no case are they invaded by any of the existing or proposed main roads: indeed their actual size has in several cases been diotated by the bounding lines of existing main roads. The hilly district east of Ho Mun Tin(the 'A' area of 200 acres) will give an excellent opportunity of showing how it is possible to develop a site, making full use of a detailed Geological survey. There is probably a considerable amount of decomposed Granite here, combined with hard rock : a terraced treatment, making full use of the softer rook but not attempting to quarry away the hard(as is being done at Morrison Hill) should produce an interesting and economic result.
One of the most important aspects of Road Planning is the provision of Car Parks as the central area is rebuilt Car Parks should be insisted upon under all new office buildings: the Tunnel entrance would naturally give access to large public Car Parks at both the Hong Kong and Kowloon entrances : these should be operated on the mechani'sed principle, so as to save space.
7. The Tunnel.
A Tunnel from the centre of Hong Kong to the tip of Kowloon is the biggest single town planning and engineering feature for consideration in connection with the Development of the Colony. Various opinions have been expressed as to what it would serve, whether for example it would supersede to any great extent the transhipment of cargoes by lighters, whether it would facilitate decentralisation from overcrowded Hong Kong, whether it would open up a wider area for high class residential development, whether it would enable work people to get more easily or quickly to their jobs, whether it would superíade the ferries/etc. The problem of engineering and of cost are also not yet solved.
From a general planning point of view the more intimate connection formed by a bridge or a tunnel must be considered of great advantage in a situation of this sort and with urban areas of the order of one million inhabitants separated by a stretch of water less than a mile wide.
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