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Wednesday, July 4, 1973

TRAFFIC IMPROVEMENTS ALONG NATHAN ROAD

Various measures are in hand to help ease considerably the heavy

traffic commitment along Nathan Road the thoroughfare on the Kowloon

peninsula.

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This vas disclosed by the Acting Director of Public Works, the

Hon. A.S. Robertson, at the Legislative Council today when the Hon. Dr. S.Y. Chung

asked whether the government had considered the desirability and feasibility

of building a multi-deck road along this route.

The Director agreed that Nathan Road is indeed heavily committed

for long periods of the day and he said the government is aware of the

need to carry out extensive works to provide relief.

However, he said a multi-deck road is not in the current public

works plans, and it would be impossible for many years because of the

proposed mass transit railway line likely to be built in Nathan Road.

Incidentally, he pointed out that the mass transit works make

the problem of relieving Nathan Road traffic all the more pressing because

of the inevitable interference with traffic which will result from the

construction of the railway.

Mr. Robertson also outlined the following improvement plans:

* Two elevated crossings of Nathan Road

the first

one from Prince Edward Road to Lai Chi Kok Road and

the other from Cheung Sha Wan Road to Boundary Street. Both should be ready by 1976.

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