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FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1991

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CONSTRUCTION OF PART OF ROUTE 3 PROPOSED

THE GOVERNMENT PROPOSES TO

BETWEEN NORTHWEST TSING YI AND MEI FOO, KOWLOON.

THE PROPOSED

OF A NOTICE (FRIDAY) GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

A CONSTRUCT

SECTION OF ROUTE 3

WORKS

WAS PUBLISHED IN TODAY'S

LEADING FROM THE NORTHWEST NEW TERRITORIES THROUGH

ROUTE 3 WILL BE A NORTH-TO-SOUTH TRUNK ROAD LOK MA CHAU BORDER CROSSING, THE WEST KOWLOON TO HONG KONG ISLAND.

UP AT

COAST OF TSING YI, IT

AS ROUTE 3 AND THE LANTAU FIXED CROSSING WILL BE LINKED AN INTERCHANGE TO BE BUILT ON THE NORTHWEST WILL PROVIDE A MAJOR ROAD ACCESS FOR THE NEW AIRPORT TRAFFIC THE LANTAU FIXED CROSSING.

3

EAST OF

15 BE ΤΟ

BUILT PROPOSED THE

OF SECTION

NOW ROUTE

A TSING YI AND MEI SEVEN-KILOMETRE LONG EXPRESSWAY BETWEEN NORTHWEST

KOWLOON EXPRESSWAY SECTION FOO WHERE IT 18 TO CONNECT WITH THE WEST OF ROUTE 3.

IT WILL BE A DUAL-THREE-LANE CARRIAGEWAY AT NORTHWEST TSING WHERE IT JOINS THE LANTAU FIXED CROSSING.

SIDE OF IT WILL TRAVERSE ALONG THE WESTERN ENTERING INTO A 1.5-KILOMETRE LONG BORED TUNNEL AT TSING YI.

YI

TSING YI BEFORE SAL TSAO WAN ON

AT CHANNEL

EMERGING FROM THE PORTAL UNDERNEATH THE EXISTING ROUNDABOUT THE WESTERN INF OF TSING SI BRINGE, IT WILL CROSS THE RAMBLER ON A BRIDGE AT A LEVEL SIMILAR TO THE EXISTING TSING YI BRIDGE.

DURING CONSTRUCTION WILL MARINE ACCESS UNDERNEATH THE BRIDGE

AN ELEVATED BE MAINTAINED, FROM PILLAR ISLAND TO MEI FOO, IT WILL BE DEAL FOUR-LANE

ROAD.

MAJOR INTERCHANGES, ONE THE PROPOSED ROUTE 3 WILL HAVE THREE

LANTAU FIXED CROSSING AT NORTHWEST TSING YI TO CONNECT THE PROPOSED

KING TO CONNECT WITH THE EXISTING (TSING MA BRIDGE), A SECOND AT LAI

AT

A WAN

LAT

AND

THIRD KING, ROAD KWAI (HUNG

ROUTE 3 WITH ROUTE 4 (CHING INTERCHANGE WILL BE PROVIDED TO LINK CHEUNG ROAD) IN LAI CHI KOK BAY.

ROAD

AND TSUFN

THE PROPOSED WORKS ARE SCHEDULED TO COMMENCE

IN EARLY 1993 AND

TO COMPLETE BY MID 1996.

THE PLANS AND SCHEME OF THE PROPOSED WORKS MAY BE INSPECTED THE FOLLOWING GOVERNMENT OFFICES:

AT

PUBLIC ENQUIRY SERVICE

38 FIER BUILDING,

ROAD,

FLOR.

AND WESTER. DISTRICT OFTIOF I

GROUID

TADBOUR

CENTRAL, HONG KONG;

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