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TUESDAY, JULY 19, 1988

THIS

URBAN COUNCIL

OF

PROJECT IS ESTIMATED TO COST $322.5

AND FOR PILING

CONSTRUCTION MILLION, OF WHICH $195.5 MILLION IS THE SUPERSTRUCTURE AND ABOUT $127 MILLION FOR EXHIBITS.

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AND

BE SELECTED HALF 'ORIGINAL

VISITORS TO THE FOUR-STOREY BUILDING WILL BE ABLE TO TOUCH

ABOUT HALF OF WHICH WI1.L OPERATE MOST OF THE EXHIBITS

OTHER FROM THE BEST MUSEUMS AROUND THE WORLD AND THE DESIGNS" CREATED JOINTLY BY LOCAL AND OVERSEAS TALENTS,

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EMPHASIS WILL HE MADE ON SELECTING EXHIBITS

AND INTERESTING SCIENTIFIC PRINCIPLES

PHENOMENA, IN

HONG BRING OUT THE MODERN TECHNOLOGY USED IN CHINA'S TECHNOLOGICAL HERITAGE.

RONG

AS

WELL CE

то PARTICULAR

SEEN AGAINST

SHOW

WAYS TO IMPROVE NON-TUNNEL TRAFFIC IN CAUSEWAY BAY

A TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT SCHEME TO IMPROVE WESTBOUND TRAFFIC ON VICTORIA PARK ROAD AND GLOUCESTER ROAD IN IMPLEMENTED FROM SATURDAY (JULY 23), THE ANNOUNCED TODAY (TUESDAY).

CAUSEWAY BAY WILL AE TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT

A SPOKESMAN FOR THE DEPARTMENT SAID THAT TUE SCHEME WILL ALLEVIATE THE CHAOTIC TRAFFIC PREVAILING ON THE WESTBOUND TRAFFIC LANES OF GLOUCESTER ROAD OUTSIDE EXCELSIOR HOTEL AND VICTORIA PARK ROAD AT ITS JUNCTION WITH ISLAND EASTERN CORRIDOR.

TO

THE

THE

HE

THE CHAOTIC TRAFFIC SITUATION IS MAINLY DUE KOWLOON-BOUND TRAFFIC MAKING USE OF THE HAPPY VALLEY LANE TO JUMP CROSS-HARBOUR TUNNEL QUEUES, THUS BLOCKING THE NON-TUNNEL TRAFFIC, EXPLAINED.

AND

"THE SCHEME IS DESIGNED TO AVOID SUCH BLOCKAGE BY MARKINGS TO SEPARATE THE KOWLOON-BOUND TRAFFIC VALLEY-BOUND TRAFFIC, HE ADDED.

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ROAD

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HAPPY

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