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THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1990

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$390M CONTRACT SIGNED FOR NT ROAD CONSTRUCTION

THE HIGHWAYS DEPARTMENT HAS AWARDED A $390 MILLION CONTRACT TUEN FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE YUEN LONG SECTION OF THE YUEN LONG MUN EASTERN CORRIDOR AND YUEN LONG WEST LINK.

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REPRESENTATIVE OF AOKI

THE CONTRACT WAS SIGNED TODAY (THURSDAY) BETWEEN THE DIRECTOR OF HIGHWAYS, MR KWEI SEE-KAN, AND A CORPORATION, MR SEIYA YAMAMOTO.

MR KWEI SAID THE YUEN LONG TUEN MUN THE EASTERN SIDE OF CASTLE PEAK ROAD WOULD TERRITORIES CIRCULAR ROAD.

EASTERN CORRIDOR ALONG FORM PART OF THE NEW

TRANSPORT INTERCHANGE NEAR TONG YUEN LONG

IT WOULD CONNECT TUEN MUN AT A PROPOSED NEAR TO YUEN WAI TO ANOTHER PROPOSED TRANSPORT INTERCHANGE YAN SAN TSUEN IN YUEN LONG WHERE IT WOULD ALSO CONNECT THE WEST LINK AND THE PROPOSED YUEN LONG SOUTHERN BYPASS.

HEAVY

ON COMPLETION OF THE CORRIDOR, IT WOULD RELIEVE THE TRAFFIC ON THE EXISTING CASTLE PEAK ROAD BETWEEN YUEN LONG AND TUEN MUN.

THE YUEN LONG WEST LINK BYPASSING YUEN LONG TOWN WOULD DIVERT THE VEHICULAR TRAFFIC FROM TIN SHUI WAI AND LONG PING AREA TO TUEN MUN AREA VIA THE YUEN LONG

ΤΟ TUEN MUN EASTERN CORRIDOR OR

THE AU TAU AND BORDER AREAS VIA THE PROPOSED YUEN LONG SOUTHERN BYPASS.

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MR KWEI SAID THE CONTRACT SIGNED TODAY COVERED THE WORKS FOR A THREE-KILOMETRE-LONG DUAL-TWO-LANE EXPRESSWAY OF THE YUEN LONG - TUEN EASTERN CORRIDOR IN THE YUEN LONG DISTRICT AND A 1.5-KILOMETRE-LONG DUAL-TWO-LANE CARRIAGEWAY OF THE YUEN LONG WEST

MUN

LINK.

FOR THE

TENDERS WOULD SOON BE INVITED FOR THE SECOND CONTRACT REMAINING THREE-KILOMETRE-LONG DUAL-TWO-LANE EXPRESSWAY OF THE EASTERN CORRIDOR IN TUEN MUN DISTRICT.

BOTH CONTRACTS WOULD BE COMPLETED IN LATE 1993, HE SAID.

THE YUEN LONG

WEST LINK WOULD BE PARTIALLY COMPLETED AND OPENED TO TRAFFIC IN EARLY 1992 TO COPE WITH THE FIRST POPULATION INTAKE OF THE TIN SHUI WAI DEVELOPMENT.

MR KWEI ADDED THAT YUEN LONG SOUTHERN BYPASS, WHICH WOULD LINK UP THE YUEN LONG

TUEN MUN EASTERN CORRIDOR AT A TRANSPORT INTERCHANGE NEAR TONG YAN SAN TSUEN, WAS UNDER DETAILED DESIGNING CONSTRUCTION WOULD BE COMPLETED IN LATE 1993.

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