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MONDAY, JUNE 2, 1975
THE MAIN STRUCTURE TO BE BUILT AT SECTION IV IS A 700-METRE CAUSEWAY CROSSING TAI LAM CHUNG BAY. IT INVOLVES DREDGING AND RECLAMATION OF A SECTION OF SEABED NEAR TAI LAM CHUNG. A FLYOVER JUNCTION WILL BE BUILT AT THE WESTERN END OF THE CAUSEWAY.
APPROACHING THE EASTERN END OF THE CAUSEWAY, THE EXISTING CASTLE PEAK ROAD WILL BE REALIGNED ONTO A RECLAIMED EMBANKMENT STRETCHING SOME 400 METRES AROUND BROTHERS POINT.
SECTION 1 AND V ARE MAINLY DEVOTED TO CUTTING AND FILLING OF HILLS AND HILLSIDES. WORK ON THESE TWO SECTIONS IS PROGRESSING AND THE HIGHWAY HAS BEGUN TO TAKE SHAPE.
THE SPOKESMAN SAID ABOUT FOUR MILLION CUBIC METRES OF MATERIALS WILL EVENTUALLY BE EXCAVATED, INCLUDING THE REMOVAL BY DREDGING FROM TAI LAM CHUNG BAY OF ÖVER HALF A MILLION CUBIC METRES.
HE SAID MORE THAN 850,000 CUBIC METRES OF HARD AND SOFT MATERIALS HAVE SO FAR BEEN EXCAVATED AND NEARLY 500,000 CUBIC METRES OF MATERIALS HAVE DEEN USED FOR FILLING, WORK OF THIS BIG PROJECT WAS CARRIED OUT WITH THE LEAST INTERFERENCE TO TRAFFIC FLOW ALONG THE EXISTING CASTLE PEAK ROAD, HE ADDED.
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ONE SPECIAL FEATURE OF THE CONSTRUCTION WORK IS THAT REINFORCED CONCRETE BLOCKS, PRE-CAST DEAMS AND CONCRETE NEEDED ARE MANUFACTURED ON VARIOUS SITES OF EACH SECTION SO THAT THE PROBLEM OF TRANSPORTING MATERIALS IS SUDSTANTIALLY REDUCED.
TRANSPORTATION OF SOIL AND ROCK IS ALSO CARRIED OUT
BY LIGHTERS TRAVELLING ALONG THE SHORE AND THEN BY LORRIES TO THE CONSTRUCTION SITE VIA TWO TEMPORARY DRIDGES SET UP AT BROTHERS POINT AND SIU LAM.
ONE OF THE BRIDGES ON THE HIGHWAY THE SHAM TSENG BRIDGE WILL BE CONSTRUCTED UNDER A SEPARATE CONTRACT. TENDERS FOR THIS PROJECT WILL BE CALLED LATER THIS YEAR. THIS BRIDGE WILL EVENTUALLY BE CONNECTED TO THE MAIN HIGHWAY.
IT IS ESTIMATED THAT MOTORISTS WILL BE ABLE TO TRAVEL ALONG THE NEW TUEN MUN ROAD AROUND MID-1977.
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