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WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 1991

"IT IS CLEARLY IMPORTANT THAT THE LFC IS BUILT IN TIME TO THESE NEEDS, SIR DAVID SAID.

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MEET

CONSTRUCT

MR LAM WAS ASKING WHETHER IT WAS REALLY NECESSARY TO

THE CHEK LAP KOK NEW THE TSING MA BRIDGE IN VIEW OF THE FACT THAT AIRPORT PROJECT HAD NOT YET BEEN IMPLEMENTED.

AND AND

WITH REGARD TO OTHER PARTS OF MR LAM'S QUESTION ON ROUTE 3 THE THIRD CROSS-HARBOUR TUNNEL, THE CHIEF SECRETARY SAID PLANNING

SERVING THE NEW AIRPORT, DESIGN WORK FOR THOSE SECTIONS OF ROUTE 3

IN PROGRESS AND WOULD INCLUDING THE WESTERN HARBOUR CROSSING, WERE CONTINUE.

FROM STRETCHING

THE WESTERN HARBOUR SIR DAVID SAID ROUTE 3

AND THE BORDER HAD BEEN CROSSING TO THE NORTHWEST NEW TERRITORIES

AS THE MAJOR IDENTIFIED IN THE SECOND COMPREHENSIVE TRANSPORT STUDY

PLACE BY THE NORTH-SOUTH ROUTE FOR THE TERRITORY WHICH SHOULD BE IN LATE 1990'S TO CATER FOR THE ANTICIPATED GROWTH OF TRAFFIC.

"IT IS DIVIDED INTO THE

WESTERN

HARBOUR TSING YI SECTIONS

SECTIONS: FOLLOWING CROSSING, WEST KOWLOON EXPRESSWAY, KWAI CHUNG AND AND THE COUNTRY PARK SECTION.

HARBOUR

"TO SERVE THE NEW AIRPORT AT CHEK LAP KOK, THE Western

CHUNG KWAI

AND TSING YI CROSSING, WEST KOWLOON EXPRESSWAY AND

OPENING DATE, SECTIONS WILL NEED TO BE COMPLETED JUST BEFORE AIRPORT LEAVING THE COUNTRY PARK SECTION TO BE SUBSEQUENTLY COMPLETED IN LATE 90'S DEPENDING ON FORECAST TRAFFIC DEMAND," SIR DAVID SAID.

THE

STANDARD SPORTS GROUND BEING PLANNED FOR MUI WO

UNDER PLANNING BY A STANDARD SPORTS GROUND IN MUI WO [S

THE SECRETARY FOR HOME AFFAIRS, THE HON REGIONAL COUNCIL, THE ACTING ALBERT LAM, INFORMED THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

MR

IN A WRITTEN REPLY TO A QUESTION BY THE HON LAM WAI-KEUNG,

BE RESUMED LAM SAID PART OF THE LAND FOR THE 2.5 HECTARE SITE HAD TO AND SITE FORMATION WAS NECESSARY BEFORE CONSTRUCTION COULD START.

THE FORMATION FOR "DUE TO COMPETING PRIORITIES, SITE GROUND IS SCHEDULED TO START IN 1995, AND IS EXPECTED TO BE BY THE END OF 1996 SUBJECT TO THE AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS.

"CONSTRUCTION OF THE SPORTS

GROUND

1997 AND BE COMPLETED IN 1998-99," HE SAID.

SPORTS COMPLETED

WOULD PROBABLY START

IN

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