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THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1990

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ROUTE 5 TO BE OPENED ON APRIL 20

10

MINUTES FOR MOTORISTS

ROUTE

5

TO DRIVE INCLUDING

IT WILL TAKE ONLY ABOUT BETWEEN SHA TIN AND TSUEN WAN WITH THE OPENING OF THE SHING MUN TUNNELS FROM APRIL 20.

HIGHWAY

ENGINEER THE REGIONAL

(NEW TERRITORIES), THE HIGHWAYS DEPARTMENT SAID THIS HON-SANG, OF DURING A PRESS VISIT TO THE NEW ROAD FACILITIES.

MR

KWONG

TODAY

(THURSDAY)

LONG

DUAL

TSUEN

MR KWONG SAID ROUTE 5 WAS A SEVEN-KILOMETRE

NEAR THE KOWLOON-CANTON TWO-LANE HIGHWAY EXTENDING FROM TAI PO ROAD RAILWAY CORPORATION SHA TIN STATION TO TSUEN KAM INTERCHANGE IN WAN. IT FORMED PART OF THE NEW TERRITORIES CIRCULAR ROAD.

AT

THREE SECTIONS. CONSTRUCTION OF THE NEW ROAD WAS DIVIDED INTO CONSTRUCTION STARTED IN APRIL 1986 AND WAS COMPLETED IN FOUR YEARS A COST OF $1.3 BILLION,

THE EASTERLY TWO-KILOMETRE SHA TIN CONNECTION AND THE

WAN CONNECTION TSUEN 1.5-KILOMETRE DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT.

WERE

BUILT BY

THE

WESTERLY TERRITORY

WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE

OF WHICH 2.6-KILOMETRE

WAS

CENTRAL IN

ONE

THE HIGHWAYS DEPARTMENT

SHING MUN SECTION, 3.5-KILOMETRE TUNNELS. THESE TUNNELS COMPRISING ONE TWO-LANE EASTBOUND TUBE AND TWO-LANE WESTBOUND TUBE WERE NOW KNOWN AS THE SHING MUN TUNNELS.

LOWER

SHING

BEING

WHERE THE EACH ABOUT 100

MR KWONG SAID THE SHING MUN TUNNELS WERE NOT CONTINUOUS,

THE GORGE OF DIVIDED BY

MUN RIVER, THE CARRIAGEWAYS WERE SUPPORTED ON TWO CONCRETE BRIDGES,

METRES LONG.

OF THE LOWER SHING TUNNELS,

THE SMUGGLERS RIDGE TUNNELS, TO THE WEST MUN RIVER, WERE ABOUT ONE-KILOMETRE LONG AND THE NEEDLE HILL TO THE EAST, WERE ABOUT 1.6-KILOMETRE LONG.

TUNNELS, A TOLL PLAZA

AT THE TSUEN WAN END OF THE SHING MUN WITH 13 LANES WAS BUILT. THE TOLL WOULD BE $3 PER TRIP.

SAID

то

ENSURE

THAT ALL

ASPECTS

OF

THE

TUNNEL

A COMPUTERISED

MR KWONG OPERATIONS WERE MONITORED AND CONTROLLED EFFICIENTLY, TUNNEL SUPERVISORY SYSTEM WAS INSTALLED.

THE TUNNELS AND APPROACHES WERE EQUIPPED

AND SYSTEM TELEVISIONS, A PUBLIC ADDRESS

WITH

EMERGENCY

CLOSED CIRCUIT TELEPHONES,

HE

SAID.

EASTBOUND

AND WESTBOUND

EMERGENCY CROSS PASSAGES LINKING THE

AT 100-METRE INTERVALS FOR TUBES WERE ALSO PROVIDED IN THE TUNNELS PEDESTRIANS AND AT 600-METRE FOR LIGHT EMERGENCY VEHICLES.

/BOTH THE

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