SATURDAY, MAY 20, 1978
MAJOR ROAD PROJECT FOR TSUEN WAN
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THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT WILL SHORTLY CARRY OUT ANOTHER MAJOR ROAD PROJECT IN THE NEW TERRITORIES.
THE PROJECT, KNOWN AS TSUEN WAN BY-PASS, IS PART OF THE ROAD DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME FOR THE TSUEN WAN NEW TOWN. IT WILL BE CARRIED OUT IN TWO STAGES.
TENDERS FOR STAGE ONE WHICH INVOLVES THE CONSTRUCTION OF A SIX-LANE ROAD FROM KWAI CHUNG TO TSUEN WAN NEW TOWN ARE BEING INVITED.
MR. CHEN SHAO-CHI CHIEF ENGINEER OF THE P.W.D.'S HIGHWAYS (N.T.) DIVISION, SAID THE TWO-KILOMETRE ROAD WOULD RUN FROM A POINT NEAR THE CONTAINER TERMINALS AT KWAI CHUNG ROAD TO TEXACO ROAD NEAR YEUNG UK ROAD.
THERE WILL BE THREE INTERCHANGES LOCATED AT KWAI CHUNG ROAD, HING FONG ROAD AND TEXACO ROAD RESPECTIVELY.
+4 SECTION OF THE ROAD FROM ITS JUNCTION WITH KWAI CHUNG ROAD TO THE NORTH OF HING FONG ROAD WILL BE A VIADUCT, THE FOUNDATIONS OF WHICH ARE ALREADY UNDER CONSTRUCTION,+ MR. CHEN SAID.
WORK ON THE FIRST STAGE OF THE ROAD PROJECT IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN IN MID-SEPTEMBER AND WILL TAKE ABOUT 27 MONTHS TO COMPLETE.
STAGE TWO OF THE PROJECT WILL INVOLVE THE CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO-KILOMETRE ROAD WHICH WILL RUN FROM TEXACO ROAD ACROSS TSUEN WAN EAY TO LINK WITH TUEN MUN ROAD AT CHAI WAN KOK.
WORK ON THIS STAGE OF THE PROJECT IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN IN 1980.
MEANWHILE, WORK ON A MULTI-MILLION-DOLLAR FLYOVER COMPLEX AT THE JUNCTION OF TEXACO ROAD AND CASTLE PEAK ROAD IN TSUEN WAN IS PROGRESSING SATISFACTORILY.
THIS INVOLVES THE CONSTRUCTION OF A 230-METRE-LONG FLYOVER WHICH WILL CARRY FOUR LANES OF TRAFFIC OVER CASTLE PEAK ROAD.
SLIP ROADS WILL ALSO BE CONSTRUCTED TO LINK CASTLE PEAK ROAD WITH TEXACO ROAD AND KWOK SHUI ROAD.
TO IMPROVE THE TRAFFIC FLOW IN TSUEN WAN, THE INTERSECTION BETWEEN KWAI CHUNG ROAD AND CASTLE PEAK ROAD WILL BE RECONSTRUCTED.
IN ADDITION, THERE WILL BE A DIRECT LINK FROM CASTLE PEAK ROAD TC CHEUNG WING ROAD AND A ROUNDABOUT SYSTEM WILL BE INTRODUCED IN THE AREA.
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