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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 1981

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+THE INTRODUCTION ONTO IT OF ADDITIONAL VEHICULAR TRAFFIC WOULD SEVERELY HAMPER PUBLIC TRANSPORT MOVEMENT WHILE PRODUCING ONLY MARGINAL RELIEF TO CONGESTION IN QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL AND CONNAUGHT ROAD CENTRAL.+

+FURTHERMORE. THE WORKS TO COMPLETE THE BUILDING OF PEDDER STATION FOR THE ISLAND LINE OF THE MTR WILL REQUIRE THE OCCUPATION OF DES VOEUX ROAD BETWEEN ICE HOUSE STREET AND PEDDER STREET.+

THIS, MR JONES POINTED OUT, REINFORCES THE NEED TO RETAIN THE PRESENT RESTRICTION.

STREET LIGHTING FOR TAI PO ROAD *****

INSTALLATION OF STREET LIGHTING ALONG PART OF TAI PO ROAD SOUTHWARDS FROM THE CHINESE UNIVERSITY WILL START IN THE NEXT FEW MONTHS AND WILL BE COMPLETED BY THE END OF THE YEAR, THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS, THE HON DAVID MCDONALD, TOLD THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

REPLYING TO A QUESTION BY THE HON HO KAM-FAI, MR MCDONALD SAID THE PROVISION OF LIGHTING TO THE THREE UNLIT SECTIONS OF TAI PO ROAD WAS PLANNED TO BE CARRIED OUT IN CONJUNCTION WITH PROGRAMMED ROAD IMPROVEMENT WORKS.

+HOWEVER, HE SAID, +AS THE ROADWORKS OVER THE ONE KILOMETRE UNLIT SECTION RUNNING SOUTHWARDS FROM THE CHINESE UNIVERSITY WILL NOT NOW BE STARTED UNTIL AFTER THE SHA TIN/TAI PO COASTAL ROAD IS COMPLETED IT HAS BEEN DECIDED TO PROCEED IN ADVANCE WITH THE LIGHTING SCHEME.

+ROADWORKS COVERING THE FIVE HUNDRED METRE UNLIT SECTION AT CHEK NAI PING WEST OF THE UNIVERSITY ARE ALREADY UNDERWAY AND LIGHTING WILL BE INSTALLED AS THE WORKS PROGRESS. IT IS ANTICIPATED THAT THIS WORK WILL BE COMPLETED IN ABOUT ONE YEAR'S TIME.

+THE LAST AND BY FAR THE LONGEST SECTION OF UNLIT ROADWAY RUNS FOR APPROXIMATELY FIVE KILOMETRES BETWEEN TAI PO TAU AND FANLING ROUNDABOUT AND SPANS THREE MAJOR ROAD IMPROVEMENT SCHEMES, SAID MR MCDONALD.

+THE FIRST OF THE SCHEMES, BETWEEN WO HOP SHEK AND FANLING ROUNDABOUT, WHICH WILL INCORPORATE STREET LIGHTING, IS ALREADY IN HAND AND WILL BE COMPLETED LATER THIS YEAR.

+WORKS ON THE REMAINDER I.E. BETWEEN TAI PO SHUI WAI AND WO HOP SHEK, ARE PROGRAMMED TO START EARLY NEXT YEAR WITH COMPLETION IN 1984, + HE ADDED.

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