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Friday, March

CLEARING MID-LEVELS-BOTTLENECK

Bus-Only Lane To Be Introduced

A major traffic improvement scheme for the Mid-Levels area,

embodying priority for buses and providing for better and extended bus services, is to go into operation on April 16, just after the Easter holiday.

The scheme, which could achieve a breakthrough in the use of traffic management techniques to help solve one of Hong Kong's pressing

transport problems, has been drawn up by the Highways Office of the

Public Works Department in close consultation with the Transport Department

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and in liaison with the China Motor Bus Company.

A government spokesman said today that the central feature of

the scheme is the provision of a one-way lane for buses only (including

school buses), with all other vehicular traffic travelling on the

other lane in the opposite direction. The only exceptions will be emergency

service vehicles like ambulances and fire engines which will be able to

use either lane,

The scheme will cover the entire length of Caine Road, the section

of Bonham Road from Caine Road to Park Road, all of Park Road and the section

of Robinson Road from Park Road to its junction with Glenealy.

Buses will travel in a westerly direction along Caine Road and

Bonham Road, and in an easterly direction along Park Road and Robinson Road,

returning to Central down Garden Road.

All other

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