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WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 1990

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RAILWAY DEVELOPMENT STUDY PLANNED FOR 1991

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THE GOVERNMENT PLANS TO COMMISSION A RAILWAY DEVELOPMENT

VIEW ON PRIORITIES EARLY NEXT YEAR IN ORDER TO TAKE AN OVERALL TIMING OF FUTURE RAIL PROJECTS, SUBJECT TO FUNDS BEING AVAILABLE.

IN THIS WAS STATED

A WRITTEN REPLY BY THE SECRETARY

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FROM QUESTION TRANSPORT, THE HON MICHAEL LEUNG, TO CHIN-WAH IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

STUDY

AND

FOR

THE HON

ΤΑΙ

MR LEUNG SAID THE RAILWAY DEVELOPMENT STUDY WOULD REASSESS UPDATE FUTURE RAILWAY DEVELOPMENT REQUIREMENTS FOR BOTH PASSENGER FREIGHT TRAFFIC IN THE TERRITORY.

AND

AND

WOULD

A TIME FRAME

AIRPORT RAILWAY, THE STUDY, TAKING FULL ACCOUNT OF THE EVALUATE A NUMBER OF POTENTIAL RAILWAY PROJECTS WITHIN EXTENDING TO 2011.

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TERRITORIES THESE MIGHT INCLUDE, APART FROM THE NORTH WEST NEW

A RAIL LINK, THE EXTENSION OF MASS TRANSIT RAILWAY TO TSEUNG KWAN

CROSSING, AND OTHER THIRD RAIL HARBOUR

RAIL LINKS IDENTIFIED IN

RECENT DEVELOPMENT STUDIES, SUCH AS THE METROPLAN.

PROJECTS MR LEUNG SAID THE RAIL

MORE DETAILED WOULD THEN BE SUBJECT TO THEIR ENGINEERING FEASIBILITY, FINANCIAL PROGRAMMES.

SELECTED FOR IMPLEMENTATION INVESTIGATION TO ESTABLISH VIABILITY AND CONSTRUCTION

UP TO THE THE TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME

COMPREHENSIVE TRANSPORT YEAR 2001 RECOMMENDED BY THE SECOND

STUDY RAIL LINK ΤΟ (CTS-2) INCLUDED A PROPOSED NORTH WEST NEW TERRITORIES SERVE THE NEW TOWNS OF TUEN MUN, YUEN LONG AND TIN SHUI WAI, HE ADDED.

DETAILED

STUDY

TWO ALTERNATIVE ROUTES WERE IDENTIFIED FOR THE TUEN MUN-TSUEN WAN LINK, AND THE YUEN LONG-TSUEN WAN LINK.

SINCE THE COMPLETION OF CTS-2, THE GOVERNMENT HAD ANNOUNCED LAP кок, TOGETHER THE CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT AIRPORT AT CHEK WITH RELATED RAIL AND ROAD LINKS.

ROUTE AS THESE PROJECTS AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF

3 TO TIE IN HAD MAJOR WITH THE OPENING OF THE NEW AIRPORT

IMPLICATIONS ON THE TIMING AND ALIGNMENT

RAILWAYS RECOMMENDED BY CTS-2, A AND OTHER FURTHER REVIEW OF THE NORTH WEST NEW TERRITORIES RAIL LINK RAIL PROJECTS WAS REQUIRED.

OF THESE

то AS PRIORITY HAD

BE GIVEN ΤΟ THE NEW AIRPORT PROJECT, FINANCIAL AND ENGINEERING FEASIBILITY STUDIES HAD BEEN COMMISSIONED ON THE AIRPORT RAILWAY, TO BE COMPLETED BY THE END OF THIS YEAR. WOULD THEN BE FOLLOWED BY A RAILWAY DEVELOPMENT STUDY, MR LEUNG SAID.

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