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Monday, September 10, 1973

WESTERN APPROACHES TO AIRPORT TUNNEL

A 3,600-foot-long elevated road, with an interchange on each end,

is to be built along Chatham Road and Kowloon City Road to link the Cross-

Harbour Tunnel connections at Hung Hom with the western portal of the airport

tunnel, now under construction.

Work on the project will be divided into three sections.

The first section involves the widening of Chatham Road and the

construction of an interchange in the vicinity of the Fat Kwong Street Bridge

and Wuhu Street, in Hung Hom.

It will provide connections with Fat Kwong Street and through Wuhu

Street to Hung Hom.

Pedestrian movements in the Chatham Road area will be improved by

a pedestrian overpass at Chatham Road and Wuhu Street and a pedestrian subway

behind the oast abutment of Fat Kwong Street Bridge.

Section Two of the project consists mainly of the construction of

an elevated roadway along Chatham Road north of Fat Kwong Street and Kowloon

City Road to San Shan Road where a second interchange the San Shan Interchange

will be built.

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The third section includes the construction of a depressed section

of road starting immediately north of San Shan Road and leading to the

western portal of the airport tunnel.

surface.

The depressed roadway will be a maximum of 32 feet below the road

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