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Thursday, September 7, 1972

ANOTHER PHASE OF MAJOR KOWLOON ROAD PROJECT APPROVED

Another phase of the Kowloon Foothills Corridor project, this time

consisting of an extension of Ching Cheung Road to Kwai Chung Road, has been

approved by the Finance Committee.

The work will cost some $21 million and is expected to start early

next year for completion by 1974.

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When it is completed, the recently built Kwai Chung Road will be

brought into full use by connecting the container terminal to the Corridor,

which runs across northern Kowloon to the industrial town of Kwun Tong.

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Much of the present volume of goods and passenger traffic generated

by Kwun Tong, Tsuen Wan and Kwai Chung will also be diverted away from

congested roads on the Kowloon peninsula.

The proposed extension carries Ching Cheung Road, presently being widened

to a dual two-lane carriageway, around Lai Chi Kok Bay to join Kwai Chung Road

near the western end of the Lai Chi Kok Bay Bridge.

Part of the extension across the northern shore of Lai Chi Kok Bay

will be raised on an overpass structure to provide headroom for traffic to

Lai Chi Kok valley. The remainder of the road across the head of the Bay

will be built on an embankment with a pedestrian subway underneath.

An interchange system will be built near the new Lai Chi Kok Hospital

where the extended road connects with Kwai Chung Road.

A section of Kwai Chung Road itself will be widened to provide a

collector-distributor road on each side.

This will permit traffic to weave to and from the Kwai Chung container

terminal and the hospital, without interfering with the main traffic flow.

To the east,

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