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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1984

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CONTRACT AWARDED FOR ROAD PROJECT

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TSUEN WAN NEW TOWN DEVELOPMENT OFFICE HAS AWARDED A $48-MILLION CONTRACT TO EXTEND ROADS AND BUILD FOOTBRIDGES ON TSING YI ISLAND.

UNDER THE CONTRACT, AWARDED TO MAEDA CONSTRUCTION LIMITED, CHUNG MEI ROAD WILL BE EXTENDED 600 METRES WESTWARDS AND CHING HONG ROAD WILL BE EXTENDED 750 METRES IN THE SAME DIRECTION.

THE EXTENSIONS WILL SERVE RESIDENTS OF THREE PHASES OF CHEUNG HONG ESTATE AND A HOME OWNERSHIP SCHEME ESTATE, BOTH OF WHICH ARE UNDER CONSTRUCTION.

TWO FOOTBRIDGES WILL SPAN CHUNG MEI ROAD AND TWO WILL SPAN CHING HONG ROAD. A FIFTH FOOTBRIDGE WILL BE BUILT NEAR THE HOME OWNERSHIP SCHEME ESTATE.

ALSO UNDER THE CONTRACT, TWO OTHER ROADS WILL BE BUILT TO FORM PART OF THE TSING YI ISLAND TOWN CENTRE NETWORK AS WELL AS SERVE TSING YI ESTATE, NOW BEING BUILT.

ONE, MEASURING 700 METRES, WILL RUN FROM THE FIRE STATION AT TSING LENG TSUI TO FUNG SHUE WO TEMPORARY HOUSING AREA AND THE OTHER, 200 METRES LONG, WILL RUN FROM THE TEMPORARY HOUSING AREA TO TSING YI OLD TOWN.

WORK ON THE CONTRACT STARTED RECENTLY AND WILL BE COMPLETED IN ABOUT 20 MONTHS.

CHALLENGING YEAR FOR DISTRICT BOARD **

THE YEAR OF THE RAT PROMISES TO BE A PARTICULARLY CHALLENGING ONE FOR THE YUEN LONG DISTRICT BOARD, THE DISTRICT OFFICER, MR JAMES WILSON, SAID TODAY (THURSDAY).

HE SAID THE BOARD WOULD BE CALLED UPON TO ADVISE ON DEVELOPMENT PROPOSALS FOR THE NORTH-WESTERN NEW TERRITORIES, A CROSS-BORDER ROAD LINK AT LOK MA CHAU, THE DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW TOWN AT TIN SHUI WAI AND THE DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PROPOSED NEW LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT SYSTEM.

MR WILSON WAS SPEAKING AT THE DISTRICT OFFICE'S NEW YEAR GATHERING ATTENDED BY MORE THAN 500 LOCAL DIGNITARIES AND BOARD MEMBERS.

+CLEARLY, THE YEAR OF THE RAT WILL BE A TIME FOR ANYONE, WHO WISHES TO HAVE A SAY IN HOW HIS DISTRICT IS TO BE RUN, TO COME FORWARD AND REGISTER SUPPORT FOR HIS DISTRICT BOARD BY REGISTERING AS AN ELECTOR, HE SAID.

/POINTING OUT