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MONDAY, APRIL 1, 1985

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NT, LANTAU ROAD WORKS START JUNE

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ROAD IMPROVEMENT WORKS WILL BE CARRIED OUT IN BOTH THE NEW TERRITORIES AND ON LANTAU ISLAND OVER A PERIOD OF 14 MONTHS FROM JUNE.

ON SHA TAU KOK ROAD, FROM FANLING NEW TOWN TO SHA TAU KOK, WORK WILL INVOLVE CONSTRUCTION OF 30 BUS BAYS, 15 WITH LOADING AND UNLOADING BAYS, AND SEVEN KILOMETRES OF A 1.6-METRE *IDE FOOTPATH, INCLUDING THE WIDENING OF TWO HIGHWAY BRIDGES AT LUNG YEUK TAU AND MA ME I HA TO ACCOMMODATE THE FOOTPATHS.

OTHER WORKS WILL INCLUDE IMPROVEMENTS TO THE BENDS AT MA MEI HA AND WO HANG, AND RECONSTRUCTION OF A BOX CULVERT NEAR SHEK CHUNG AU.

ON LANTAU ISLAND, IMPROVEMENTS WILL BE MADE ON NGONG PING ROAD AND A SECTION OF SHAM WAT ROAD FROM ITS JUNCTION WITH NGONG PING ROAD TO KEUNG SHAN ROAD.

THE WORK WILL INVOLVE THE WIDENING OF A 2.5 KILOMETRE LENGTH OF CARRIAGEWAY ON NGONG PING ROAD, TO A WIDTH OF SIX METRES WHERE THE TOPOGRAPHY ALLOWS AND, WHERE THE TERRAIN IS DIFFICULT, THE PROVISION OF INTERVISIBLE PASSING PLACES.

A SPOKESMAN FOR THE ENGINEERING DEVELOPMENT DE ARTMENT SAID THAT BY WIDENING AND PROVIDING THESE PASSING PLACES, IT WAS HOPED THAT THE DANGEROUS PRACTICE OF VEHICLES HAVING TO REVERSE ON STEEP GRADES TO ALLOW VEHICLES TRAVELLING IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION TO PASS WOULD BE REMOVED.

MARKET STALLS FOR AUCTION

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TWENTY-EIGHT STALLS AT TAI PO TEMPORARY MARKET AND

TAI PO MARKET WILL BE AUCTIONED AT THE OFFICE OF TAI PO RURAL COMMITTEE AT HEUNG SZE WUI STREET IN TAI PO AT 9.30 AM ON WEDNESDAY (APRIL 3).

ACCORDING TO A SPOKESMAN FOR THE REGIONAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT, 16 STALLS ARE AT TAI PO TEMPORARY MARKET WHILE THE REMAINING 12 ARE AT TAI PO MARKET.

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