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FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1990

SENSIBLE, IMAGINATIVE PLANNING FOR FUTURE: GOVERNOR

HONG KONG

IS

PLANNING

SENSIBLY

AND

IMAGINATIVELY

FOR

THE

FUTURE, NOT JUST TO 1997 BUT WELL INTO THE NEXT CENTURY, THE GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID WILSON, SAID THIS (FRIDAY) EVENING.

ON

KONG'S

15TH

DINNER ANNIVERSARY

OF THE HONG KONG SPEAKING AT THE

PAST FEW INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS, SIR DAVID POINTED OUT THAT IN THE MONTHS WORK HAD BEGUN

SOME OF

AMBITIOUS THE MOST

ENGINEERING HISTORY, PROJECTS

WOULD WHICH

SHAPE PROJECTS IN HONG FUTURE.

OUR

"ALL THESE PROJECTS TOGETHER

OF THE PORT, AND THE NEW ROADS AND BACK-UP NEED

-

THE THE NEW AIRPORT,

EXPANSION FACILITIES THAT WE WILL

ARE EXPECTED TO COST A TOTAL OF $127 BILLION.

MONEY "IT IS AN ENORMOUS SUM. BUT IT WILL BE ARE LAYING THE FOUNDATIONS FOR HONG KONG'S CONTINUED WELL INTO THE NEXT CENTURY, HE SAID.

M

WELL SPENT. WE ECONOMIC GROWTH

NEW AIRPORT AT CHEK NOTING THAT IT WAS INTENDED TO OPEN THE

SEVEN YEARS LAP KOK IN EARLY 1997, THE GOVERNOR SAID THERE WERE JUST

THE SEA, TO COMPLETE DETAILED ENGINEERING STUDIES, RECLAIM LAND FROM AND BUILD A LARGE NEW INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, AND THE AND RAIL NETWORK.

ASSOCIATED

ROAD

"HONG KONG'S

REPUTATION FOR

ACHIEVING

THE

IMPOSSIBLE,

AND

ACHIEVING IT AHEAD OF SCHEDULE, WILL BE TESTED TO THE FULL," HE SAID.

SIR

DAVID SAID HONG

OF THE CONTAINER DEVELOPMENT

WOULD WHAT CONSTRUCTION OF FURTHER WEST,

KONG

IN

PORT AT EFFECT

WAS COMMITTED

KWAI CHUNG. BE A COMPLETELY

TO

THE

RAPID

AND

ΤΟ

THE

NEW

PORT

KWAI CHUNG WAS ALREADY THE WORLD'S BUSIEST CONTAINER PORT, THE VOLUME OF CARGO HANDLED WAS LIKELY TO INCREASE BY 500 PER CENT THE NEXT 20 YEARS.

AND IN

8 WOULD START NEXT YEAR, THUS WORK ON CONTAINER TERMINAL NO.

WOULD ALSO AND THERE

BE A NO. TERMINAL

9 WOULD FOLLOW, SOPHISTICATED SUPPORT SYSTEM OF ROADS, PARKING AND STORAGE FACILITIES.

AND

THE FOUNDATIONS PUBLISHED TRANSPORT

THE GOVERNOR SAID THE SAME APPROACH OF LAYING

THE WHITE PAPER ON

FOR THE FUTURE WAS BEHIND EARLIER THIS YEAR, AND RIGHTLY CALLED "MOVING INTO THE 21ST CENTURY".

BE UNDERTAKEN, BESIDES OTHER SOME VERY LARGE PROJECTS WOULD

MANAGEMENT AND GIVING CREATIVE APPROACHES SUCH AS IMPROVING TRAFFIC PRIORITY TO THE MOST EFFICIENT MEANS OF TRANSPORT.

/THE ROUTE