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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 1989

RELIEF IN ROAD CONGESTION IN SIGHT

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(WEDNESDAY)

THE CONGESTION COMPLETION NOW IN

THE GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID WILSON, WAS TOLD TODAY THAT THERE WOULD SOON BE A SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENT IN PROBLEM ON SOME OF HONG KONG'S MAJOR ROADS OF NEW ROAD AND TUNNEL PROJECTS PROGRESS, OF SOME KEY ROADS.

FOLLOWING THE AS WELL AS THE WIDENING,

SIR

THE

DURING A VISIT TO THE TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT THIS AFTERNOON, DAVID SAID HE WAS PLEASED TO HEAR THAT THE OPENING THIS SUMMER OF

EASE THE EASTERN HARBOUR CROSSING AHEAD OF SCHEDULE WOULD DO MUCH TO

TUNNEL AS WELL AS ON MASS PRESSURE ON THE EXISTING CROSS HARBOUR TRANSIT RAILWAY STATIONS ALONG THE NATHAN ROAD CORRIDOR.

WAN, END OF ALTHOUGH

IN ADDITION, THE OPENING OF ROUTE 5 FROM SHA TIN TO TSUEN AND THE COMPLETION OF THE TAI PO ROAD WIDENING PROJECT AT THE THE YEAR, WOULD PROVIDE SOME RELIEF TO THE LION ROCK TUNNEL, THE PROBLEM OF CONGESTION THERE WOULD NOT FULLY BE RESOLVED UNTIL OPENING OF THE TATE'S CAIRN TUNNEL IN 1991.

COMMISSIONER IN THE BRIEFING GIVEN BY THE JAMES SO, SIR DAVID WAS TOLD SHORT-TERM.

THE

FOR TRANSPORT, MR THAT SUCH RELIEF WOULD, HOWEVER,

BE

WITH THE

OF PROBLEM WITH AS PART OF

THE

TRANSPORT OVERALL

DEALING LONG TERM PLANS FOR

ΤΟ BE DEALT CONGESTION WOULD HAVE DEVELOPMENT OF THE TERRITORY,

STAGE AN IMPORTANT

IN THIS PROCESS

THE WAS

SECOND PUBLISHED IN THE NEXT COMPREHENSIVE STUDY (CTS-II), WHICH WOULD BE

BY FOLLOWED

A GREEN PAPER

OUT FEW MONTHS, AND WOULD

SETTING PROPOSALS ON TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENTS AND POLICIES.

BE

PAPER SIR DAVID SAID HE HOPED THE PUBLIC WOULD STUDY THE GREEN

PROPOSALS CONTAINED IN CAREFULLY AND PUT FORWARD THEIR VIEWS ON ALL

IT.

ON THE

TRANSPORT

DEPARTMENT'S PUBLIC TRANSPORT PLANNING

THE GOVERNOR WAS BRIEFED PROPOSALS TO STRENGTHEN ITS CAPABILITY IN AND CO-ORDINATION FOLLOWING ITS RE-ORGANISATION IN MAY.

IMPORTANT

HE COMMENTED THAT THIS WAS AN DEPARTMENT'S WORK AND ONE WHICH ATTRACTED MUCH INTEREST.

AREA OF THE PUBLIC ATTENTION AND

PLANNED COMPUTERISED SIR DAVID EXPRESSED KEEN INTEREST IN THE

ΤΟ BE BUILT ADJACENT то THE VEHICLE EXAMINATION CENTRE VEHICLE EXAMINATION CENTRE AT KOWLOON BAY.

I

EXISTING

THE NEW CENTRE WOULD PROVIDE EXTRA CAPACITY INSPECTION SCHEME TO COVER ALL AFTER FIRST REGISTRATION.

GOODS VEHICLES

AT

FOR WIDENING THE ANNUAL INTERVALS

/HE HOPED