XN000022-1987-11-27 — Page 7

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1987

OF AT THE NORTHERN END

BRIDGE

THE AND

CORRIDOR, CHI KOK

THE TSUEN RE-CONSTRUCTED AND WIDENED FROM FOUR-LANE TO

BETWEEN LAI

THE

CHUNG

ROAD BE

KWAI WAN

WOULD BYPASS FIVE-LANE CARRIAGEWAYS.

WORK SHOULD START NEXT YEAR AND BE COMPLETED IN MID-1991.

WOULD BE GREATLY IMPROVED

FURTHER NORTH, ACCESS TO TSING YI WITH THE OPENING OF THE TSING YI NORTH BRIDGE NEXT MONTH.

IN THE LONGER TERM,

DEVELOPMENTS WERE WEST KOWLOON OTHER FUTURE

TRANSPORT LARGE-SCALE

THE INVOLVE LIKELY TO BE

THIS WOULD REQUIRED. RECLAMATION AND THE WEST KOWLOON EXPRESSWAY CONNECTING LARGE PROJECTS SUCH AS THE WESTERN HARBOUR CROSSING AND ROUTE X.

THE DIRECTOR

MR

LAI

OF HIGHWAYS, ALSO SPEAKING AT THE CEREMONY,

WAS A HIGH SAID THAT THE WEST KOWLOON CORRIDOR HAROLD BEATON, CAPACITY ELEVATED TRAFFIC ROUTE STRETCHING FROM GASCOIGNE ROAD TO TO THE LAI CHI CHI KOK ROAD IN THE VICINITY OF THE APPROACHES BRIDGE.

KOK

IN

LATE TSUI

SINCE THE OPENING OF THE SECOND STAGE OF THE CORRIDOR 1982, FROM CHERRY STREET TO YEN CHOW STREET BETWEEN THE TAI KOK

IN ΤΑΙ KOK TSUI AND AND SHAM SHUI PO FERRY PIERS, THE COMMUNITIES SHAM SHUI PO HAD RECEIVED SUBSTANTIAL RELIEF FROM TRAFFIC CONGESTION.

SHA WAN THE CHEUNG SHA WAN SECTION WHICH RAN ABOVE THE CHEUNG

MEI ROAD RAMP, RECLAMATION, TOGETHER WITH THE TUNG CHAU STREET/TONG FORMED THE THIRD STAGE OF THE WEST KOWLOON CORRIDOR.

THE CORRIDOR SOUTHERN

USING TRAFFIC BOTH NORTHBOUND AND SOUTHBOUND WOULD FIND SUBSTANTIAL REDUCTIONS IN TRAVELLING TIME BETWEEN KOWLOON AND THE WESTERN SIDE OF THE NEW TERRITORIES.

THIS IN

TURN WOULD

BRING

RELIEF

ΤΟ

THE

CONGESTION

NOW

AND SHAM

EXPERIENCED ON THE ROADS AT GROUND LEVEL IN THE LAI CHI KOK SHUI PO DISTRICTS, MR BEATON SAID.

A

MR LEUNG, AFTER DELIVERING HIS SPEECH AND UNVEILING A PLAQUE,

A

WHICH DROVETHROUGH RODE IN

CAR BEATON, BY MR ACCOMPANIED CEREMONIAL RIBBON TO DECLARE THE ROAD OPEN.

THE 1.25 KILOMETRE-LONG ROAD TOOK TO COMPLETE AT A COST OF ABOUT $160 MILLION.

ABOUT

TWO-AND-A-HALF

IT WILL BE OPEN TO TRAFFIC FROM 10 AM TOMORROW (SATURDAY).

17

YEARS