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Wednesday, March 29, 1972

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Referring to Shatin, the Hon. Oswald Cheung had stressed the need

to provide adequate space for roads for Government and Community use; the

segregation of pedestrians from vehicles; and the need to ensure that the

new township had adequate road and rail access between Kowloon and Shatin

and with the neighbouring township of Kwai Chung-Tsuen Wan.

Mr. Robson explained that when large scale detailed planning

layourts were prepared adequate road provision would be made in each of

the planning areas to match the extent of development planned, both in

government and private sectors.

Planning For Shatin

"A feature of the planning for Shatin is the provision of a

hierarchy of roads for the main types of traffic encountered, with the

primary network providing direct access to the town from Kowloon and

Tsuen Wan."

These roads would be of the limited access type and would

include grade-separation at all intersections to ensure that the capacity

of the system for traffic was maximised, he said.

A system of secondary or district distributor roads would

distribute the traffic to the various areas within the town where the

local roads would provide access to the individual developments, he added.

As far as the second Lion Rock Tunnel was concerned, Mr. Robson

said that he would seek funds at the First Review of the Public Works

Programme on May 5 to enable a start to be made on an enlarged Waterworks

Tunnel required for the High Island Scheme as that would be made big enough

to take vehicular traffic.

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