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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1989

IN

THE PORT AND AIRPORT DEVELOPMENTS, THE GOVERNOR SAID, ALSO MEANT THAT THE WEST KOWLOON RECLAMATION WOULD NEED TO BE COMPLETED THE MID-1990'S TO PROVIDE THE NECESSARY TRANSPORT LINKS TO AREA.

"THIS RECLAMATION WILL PROVIDE A MAJOR SOURCE OF URBAN AREA FOR COMMERCIAL AND RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT.

THE URBAN

LAND IN THE

THE CENTRAL AND BE AVAILABLE DURING

BY "MORE BADLY NEEDED LAND WILL BE PROVIDED WAN CHAI RECLAMATION, WHERE SITES WILL START TO 1993," HE ADDED.

LOOKING FURTHER

THE AHEAD,

GOVERNOR SAID THERE WAS THE ISLAND AND HONG POSSIBILITY OF RECLAIMING THE CHANNEL BETWEEN GREEN

REMOVAL OF KONG ISLAND AND THE IMMENSE OPPORTUNITIES PROVIDED BY THE THE AIRPORT FROM KAI TAK.

HE SAID THESE URBAN RECLAMATIONS WOULD GIVE THE GOVERNMENT URBAN AREAS. AS ENVISAGED IN OPPORTUNITY TO REPLAN THE OLDER METROPLAN.

"IN DOING THIS, AN IMPORTANT POINT WILL BE TO THE PLANNING OF LAND USE IS PROPERLY CO-ORDINATED WITH OF NEW TRANSPORT FACILITIES," HE SAID.

THE

THE

MAKE SURE THAT THE PROVISION

TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE BEING DEVELOPED

TERRITORY'S PRELIMINARY

FOR

THE GOVERNMENT IS CONTINUING TO DEVELOP THE TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE IN OTHER AREAS AT A TIME WHEN PLANNING AND FEASIBILITY STUDIES FOR MANY OF THE PROJECTS NEEDED NEW FORT AND AIRPORT DEVELOPMENTS HAVE EITHER BEGUN OR WILL SOON START, THE GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID WILSON, SAID TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

NOTING THAT THE RAILWAY SECTION OF THE EASTERN HARBOUR CROSSING OPENED IN AUGUST, AND THE ROAD SECTION IN SEPTEMBER, FOUR MONTHS AHEAD OF SCHEDULE, SIR DAVID SAID THIS MAGNIFICENT ACHIEVEMENT BY THE PRIVATE SECTOR HAD BROUGHT SOME MUCH-NEEDED RELIEF BOTH TO CROSS HARBOUR TUNNEL AND THE MTR NATHAN ROAD CORRIDOR.

HE SAID THAT OTHER MAJOR

THE

PROJECTS TO IMPROVE THE TRANSPORT

LINKS WERE ON SCHEDULE.

"ROUTE 5 BETWEEN SHA TIN AND TSUEN WAN WILL OPEN EARLY NEXT

BAY (OR, AS IT YEAR, FOLLOWED BY THE TUNNEL LINKING JUNK

WILL BE CALLED IN FUTURE, TSEUNG KWAN O) TO KWUN TONG AND THE FINAL STAGES THE NEW TERRITORIES CIRCULAR ROAD.

OF

AND

"IN 1991, THE TATE'S CAIRN TUNNEL (ALREADY WELL ADVANCED)

AND GREATLY THE KWUN TONG BYPASS WILL BE COMPLETED, TO BRING COMFORT IMPROVED TRANSPORT CONNECTIONS FOR THE TRAVEL-WEARY INHABITANTS OF SHA TIN AND THE NEW TERRITORIES," HE SAID.

/SIR DAVID