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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1988

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EXCO ENDORSES MEASURES TO RELIEVE TUNNEL CONGESTION

ENDORSED MEASURES TAKEN BY THE THE GOVERNOR-IN-COUNCIL HAS TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT TO RELIEVE CONGESTION AT THE LION ROCK TUNNEL.

ON

THE

TOLL AT

THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL DELIBERATED ON THE RESULTS OF STUDIES

PROBLEM, THREE

INCLUDING RESOLVE SCHEMES TO

THE CONGESTION INCREASE IN THE CAPACITY OF TAI PO HILL TUNNEL FOR ROAD TRAFFIC AND THE INTRODUCTION OF ONE-WAY THE LION ROCK TUNNEL.

ROAD, THE CONVERSION OF BEACON

THE EXPECTED RELIEF IT THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL WAS BRIEFED ON

ΤΟ WIDEN WOULD BRING TO THE LION ROCK TUNNEL BY THE EARLIER DECISION

ARRANGEMENT TAI PO ROAD AND ON THE IMPROVEMENT THE CURRENT TIDAL-FLOW AT THE TUNNEL HAD ALREADY ACHIEVED.

WIDEN TAI PO TRAFFIC WOULD THIS TO ΤΑΙ PO

THE GOVERNMENT DECIDED IN DECEMBER LAST YEAR TO ROAD IN ORDER TO PROVIDE AN ADDITIONAL LANE FOR KOWLOON-BOUND

IN 1989, KOWLOON. AND

ON COMPLETION BETWEEN SHA TIN PROVIDE AN ADDITIONAL CAPACITY OF 1,500 VEHICLES PER HOUR ROAD.

HOPED MUCH OF THE AS A RESULT OF THIS EXTRA CAPACITY, IT IS

BE RELIEVED UNTIL CONGESTION IN THE MORNING PEAK FROM SHA TIN WOULD THE OPENING OF THE TATE'S CAIRN TUNNEL BY THE END OF 1991.

THE DECISION TO WIDEN TAI PO ROAD HAD ALSO LARGELY REMOVED NEED FOR CONVERSION OF THE BEACON HILL TUNNEL FOR ROAD TRAFFIC.

THE

FOUND

THE CONVERSION, WHICH COULD COST UP TO $125 MILLION, WAS

PROBLEMS CAUSED BY THE TO BE TECHNICALLY FEASIBLE, BUT THE SAFETY

RESOLVED. IT WAS PRESENCE OF A HIGH PRESSURE GAS MAIN COULD NOT BE THEREFORE DECIDED THAT THE SCHEME WOULD NOT BE PURSUED FURTHER.

BETWEEN NOVEMBER 23 AND DECEMBER 21 LAST YEAR, EXPERIMENT WAS CONDUCTED AT THE LION ROCK TUNNEL.

A ONE-WAY TOLL

THE LIFTING OF RESULTS OF THE EXPERIMENT SHOWED THAT NEITHER

IN VEHICLE MERGING ARRANGEMENTS TOLLS NOR THE VARIATIONS

HAD ANY

RAD EXCO TUNNEL CAPACITY,

ARRIVED THAT THE EFFECT ON ONE-WAY TOLL SYSTEM SHOULD NOT BE ADOPTED.

THEREFORE

DAYS DURING EFFECTIVE FORMATION OF TRAFFIC

HOWEVER, A TIDAL-FLOW ARRANGEMENT, TESTED FOR TWO THE FOURTH WEEK OF THE ONE-WAY TOLL EXPERIMENT, HAD PROVED IN REDUCING QUEUE LENGTH AND IN POSTPONING THE QUEUES ON SOUTHBOUND APPROACH ROADS OF THE TUNNEL.

THE ARRANGEMENT