TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1981
SECOND STAGE WORK ON TSUEN WAN BYPASS
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THE NEW TERRITORIES DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT TODAY AWARDED A MAJOR CIVIL ENGINEERING CONTRACT TO PAUL Y. CONSTRUCTION CO. LTD. FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE SECOND STAGE OF THE TSUEN WAN BYPASS.
THE CONTRACT, WORTH ABOUT $290 MILLION, WAS SIGNED THIS MORNING BY MR C.N. FONG, PROJECT MANAGER OF THE TSUEN WAN NEW TOWN DEVELOPMENT OFFICE AND MR G.C. TSO OF PAUL Y. CONSTRUCTION CO. LTD.
SPEAKING AFTER THE CONTRACT SIGNING CEREMONY, MR FONG SAID THAT WORK WOULD START LATER THIS MONTH AND BE COMPLETED BY THE END OF 1984.
IT COVERS THE CONSTRUCTION OF A 2.5 KILOMETRE-LONG ELEVATED HIGHWAY, 500 METRES OF WHICH WILL BE OVER THE SEA AND THE REST OVER THE RECENTLY RECLAIMED LAND AND NATURAL GROUND,
+THIS DUAL TWO-LANE HIGHWAY, PART OF WHICH WILL BE DUAL THREE- LANE, WILL CONNECT STAGE ONE OF THE TSUEN WAN BYPASS AT TEXACO ROAD WITH TUEN MUN ROAD AT CHAI WAN KOK, HE SAID.
+THERE WILL BE AN INTERMEDIATE INTERSECTION TO CONNECT THE ELEVATED ROAD TO THE EXISTING ROAD NETWORKS BY ADDITIONAL GROUND LEVEL ROADS ON THE NEWLY-COMPLETED RECLAMATION.+
MR FONG SAID THAT THE ELEVATED ROAD WAS NOT ONLY AN ESSENTIAL PART OF THE OVERALL DEVELOPMENT OF TSUEN WAN NEW TOWN BUT ALSO FORMED PART OF THE NEW TERRITORIES TRUNK ROAD SYSTEM.
STAGE ONE OF THE BYPASS, WHICH RUNS FROM KWAI CHUNG ROAD TO TEXACO ROAD, WAS OPENED IN JUNE THIS YEAR.
+THE OPENING OF THE FIRST STAGE OF THE BYPASS HAS ALREADY BROUGHT IMPROVEMENTS TO TRAFFIC CONDITIONS IN KWAI CHUNG AREA AND ALSO TO TRAFFIC TO AND FROM TSING YI ISLAND, MR FONG SAID.
+ON COMPLETION OF STAGE TWO, THE BYPASS WILL CONNECT KWAI CHUNG ROAD TO TUEN MUN ROAD TO PROVIDE A MUCH-NEEDED THROUGH-ROUTE FOR TRAFFIC TO TUEN MUN AND THE NORTH WEST NEW TERRITORIES, RELIEVING THE ALREADY HEAVILY CONGESTED ROADS IN TSUEN WAN NEW TOWN,
TRAM-ONLY LANE
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A SECTION OF TRAFFIC LANE ON THE SOUTHBOUND TRAM TRACK OF LEIGHTON ROAD NEAR WONG NAI CHUNG ROAD WILL BE DESIGNATED AS TRAM-ONLY LANE FROM 10 AM ON FRIDAY (DECEMBER 18) TO IMPROVE ROAD SAFETY.
THE LANE WILL BE INDICATED BY TRAFFIC SIGNS AND CARRIAGEWAY MARKINGS.
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