Monday, January 7, 1974
TRAFFIC FREE SHOPPING AREAS TO BE INTRODUCED
Under Urban Renewal Pilot Scheme
planning
Hong Kong will soon benefit from a new concept in modern city
Pedestrian Shopping Precincts.
The idea is to pedestrianise the streets and turn them into shopping
precincts where no vehicular movement will be permitted.
Such precincts will become the most significant feature in the
12.8 acres of land which is now undergoing a face-lift programme under
the Urban Renewal Pilot Scheme.
When the entire district
in Western
—
partly located in Central and partly
is properly re-developed in accordance with the planned layout
of the scheme, all but two streets in the area will be pedestrianised.
The two streets, Lower Lascar Row and Possession Street, will be
widened and altered in such a manner that vehicles will have adequate access
to all shops in the area.
Mr. II.C. Tam, the Senior Estate Surveyor of the Public Works
Department responsible for the Pilot Scheme, noted that segregating pedestrians
from vehicles would make it safer for people on the roads.
Children
"All people will need to worry about is bumping into each other
when they concentrate on the items displayed in the show windows.
will be able to walk and run freely around and across the streets without
fear of being hit by speeding cars," he said.
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