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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1989

SAI KUNG DB TO BE CONSULTED ON FESTIVAL ARRANGEMENTS

ON THIS YEAR'S KUNG TOWN,

THE SAI KUNG DISTRICT BOARD WILL BE CONSULTED ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE TIN HAU FESTIVAL CELEBRATIONS IN SAI THE SAI KUNG DISTRICT OFFICER, MR CHRISTOPHER MUNN, SAID.

THE DISTRICT MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE (DMC) HAD DISCUSSED ISSUE AT ITS MEETING ON MONDAY (FEBRUARY 13).

SAID CONSULTATION

MR MUNN

BY

THE

PROPOSED ASSOCIATION, WOULD

FESTIVAL'S

BECAUSE

SAI

THE

THE

NECESSARY

SITE

THE

KUNG KAIFONG TRAFFIC RE-ROUTEING WHICH

WAS ORGANISERS, REQUIRE CONSIDERABLE

MIGHT CAUSE INCONVENIENCE TO LOCAL RESIDENTS AND BUSINESSES.

THE DISTRICT BOARD WOULD BE ASKED TO ADVISE ON DISRUPTION WHICH WOULD BE CONSIDERED ACCEPTABLE FROM POINT OF VIEW, HE ADDED.

THE EXTENT OF THE COMMUNITY'S

SITES

MR MUNN SAID THE DMC HAD CONSIDERED A NUMBER OF POSSIBLE

PERFORMANCES FOR PUTTING UP THE MATSHED FOR THEATRICAL

TO CELEBRATE THE FESTIVAL, EACH OF WHICH HAD ITS ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES.

THE ORGANISERS OF THE FESTIVAL HAD, HOWEVER, STRESSED THAT SITE MOST ACCEPTABLE TO THEM WOULD BE THE PLOT OF LAND IMMEDIATELY

WAS THIS SITE

TRADITIONALLY USED FRONT OF THE TIN HAU TEMPLE THE FESTIVAL UNTIL 1986.

-

THE

IN

FOR

WOULD REQUIRE THE KUNG MARKET

SITE MR MUNN POINTED OUT THAT USE OF THIS CLOSURE OF A SECTION OF YI CHUN STREET FROM NEAR THE SAI TO WAN KING PATH.

THE ROAD

CLOSURE, FOLLOWING

WITH HE SAID THAT IN CONNECTION TRAFFIC ARRANGEMENTS WOULD HAVE TO BE MADE AND THE MANAGEMENT SCHEME WAS PROPOSED AT THE MEETING ON MONDAY :

(A)

WOULD THE HAMMER

SPECIAL TRAFFIC

THE SECTION OF YI CHUN STREET BETWEEN ITS JUNCTIONS MAN NIN STREET AND WAN KING PATH

BECOME TWO VEHICLES WOULD TURN AROUND IN

HEAD OF SECTION OF ROAD, WHICH WOULD ONLY BE USED FOR LOADING UNLOADING PURPOSES;

WITH

WAY.

THIS AND

(B)

JUNCTIONS WITH THE SECTION OF MAN NIN STREET BETWEEN ITS

AND THE YI CHUN STREET AND ROAD L7 WOULD BECOME TWO WAY

SPACES ALONG ON-STREET PARKING

THIS

WOULD SECTION

BE

TEMPORARILY SUSPENDED;

(C)

THE TRAFFIC FLOW ON ROAD L7 WOULD BE REVERSED;

(D)

THE GREEN MINIBUS (GMB) CHUN STREET AND ROAD L7 ROAD GMB TERMINUS; AND

3 AND 4 ON YI STANDS FOR ROUTES 2 J WOULD BE RELOCATED TO THE FUK

MAN

/(E) THE