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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1987

TUNNEL USERS TO PAY $3 FROM MONDAY

*

FROM 3 AM

SOUTH BOUND ON MONDAY (DECEMBER 21), ALL NORTHBOUND MOTORISTS WILL HAVE TO PAY THE NORMAL TOLL OF $3 FOR THE LION ROCK TUNNEL.

AND

USING

THE TRANSPORT ANNOUNCING THIS TODAY (FRIDAY), A SPOKESMAN FOR

WHICH HAS BEEN CARRIED DEPARTMENT SAID THE ONE-WAY TOLL EXPERIMENT

AT 3 AM ON OUT AT THE TUNNEL SINCE NOVEMBER 23 WILL COME TO AN END MONDAY.

BE "AT THE SAME TIME, PRE-EXPERIMENT TRAFFIC ARRANGEMENTS WILL

MONDAY RESUMED. MOTORISTS USING THE LION ROCK TUNNEL SOUTHBOUND FROM

TRAFFIC DIRECTIONAL SIGNS AND SHOULD ONWARDS SHOULD WATCH OUT FOR

11 HE ADDED. STOP AT THE TOLL BOOTHS TO PAY THE TUNNEL TOLL OF $3,

FOLLOWING ARE THE

NUMBER

OF VEHICLES USING THE LION THE EVENING AND MORNING PEAK TUNNEL AND TAI PO ROAD DURING YESTERDAY (THURSDAY) AND TODAY, RESPECTIVELY:

ROCK HOURS

LION ROCK TUNNEL

SOUTHBOUND

TAI PO ROAD

NORTHBOUND

SOUTHBOUND

NORTHBOUND

DECEMBER 17 (4.30 PM

7,222

6,927

1,657

2,052

-

7 PM)

NORMAL WEEKDAY

7,274

6,995

2,358

2,085

(4.30 PM - 7 PM)

DECEMBER 18

9,294

6,407

2,760

2,205

-

(7 AM 10 AM)

NORMAL WEEKDAY

9,309

6,615

2,812

1,874

(7 AM

-

10 AM)

MEANWHILE,

A

"TIDAL-FLOW" SECOND TIME.

WAS

CARRIED

AT

THE TUNNEL FOR THE

THE ARRANGEMENT STARTED LATER

7.45 AM.

AND

OUT ARRANGEMENT

EXPERIENCE, BASED ON YESTERDAY'S TODAY AT 6.15 AM AND ENDED AROUND

VEHICLES PASSED THE QUEUE ON LION

AN EXTRA DIRECTION.

640

AM BETWEEN 7

AM, 7.30 THROUGH THE TUNNEL IN THE SOUTHBOUND ROCK TUNNEL ROAD DID NOT APPEAR UNTIL 7.40 AM.

HOWEVER,

TRAFFIC CONGESTION NORTHBOUND APPROACH TO THE LION ROCK TUNNEL.

TOWARDS THE END OF THE ON THE WAS OBSERVED

TIDAL ROADS

FLOW LEADING

ARRANGEMENT,

ΤΟ

THE

/FOLLOWING ARE