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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1991

THE FLYOVER, THE ACTING SPEAKING AT THE OPENING CEREMONY OF

CHOW, SAID THE PHASE I DIRECTOR OF TERRITORY DEVELOPMENT, MR C.K.

BETWEEN THE IMPROVEMENTS INCLUDED MAINLY A FLYOVER ALONG TEXACO ROAD TWO SIGNAL-CONTROLLED JUNCTIONS AT TAI WO HAU ROAD AND KWAI FUK AS WELL AS THE CORRESPONDING GROUND LEVEL ROAD WIDENING.

PART OF KWAI FUK ROAD IS ALSO WIDENED AND REALIGNED TO NEW CROSS JUNCTION AT TEXACO ROAD WITH YEUNG UK ROAD.

OF

"TOGETHER WITH A NEW FOOTBRIDGE SYSTEM ACROSS TEXACO

THE

AND CAPACITY

SAFETY PEDESTRIAN YEUNG UK ROAD,

MR CHOW SAID. JUNCTION WILL BE GREATLY ENHANCED,

WORKS ON

Ι PHASE

I

APRIL

1989

ROAD,

FORM

ROAD AND THIS BUSY

PROJECT STARTED IN

AND WAS MILLION. UNDERTAKEN BY LEIGHTON CONTRACTOR PTY LTD. AT A COST OF $127

ACER CONSULTANTS (FAR EAST) THE CONSULTING FIRM FOR THE PROJECT IS LTD.

LOCATED THE PROJECT IS REGARDED AS A CHALLENGING ONE AS IT WAS

CORRIDOR AND MANAGEMENT OF TRAFFIC IN AN EXTREMELY BUSY TRANSPORT

CONSTANT ·

MANY ATTENTION.

DESIGN

WERE REQUIRED

MODIFICATIONS NECESSARY DURING CONSTRUCTION TO FACILITATE RELOCATION OF UNCHARTERED SERVICES.

PHASE II WORKS OF ACCORDING TO MR CHOW,

THE WHOLE SCHEME, TSUEN WHICH ARE AIMED AT PROVIDING ESSENTIAL IMPROVEMENT TO THE TSING INTERCHANGE, HAD ALSO BEEN SCHEDULED TO START IN APRIL NEXT YEAR,

"THEREFORE IN THE NOT TOO DISTANT

TSING NORTH

YI AND THE LINK BETWEEN IMPROVED, HE SAID.

FUTURE, IT TSUEN WAN

CAN BE EXPECTED WILL BE GREATLY

CONSTRUCTION

OF A

TWO-LANE TEXACO

THE WORKS WILL INCLUDE THE BI-DIRECTIONAL VIADUCT OVER TSING TSUEN INTERCHANGE TO CONNECT ROAD DIRECT WITH TSING TSUEN BRIDGE AS WELL AS AN ELEVATED SINGLE-LANE

TSUEN CONNECTION BETWEEN

WAN BYPASS WESTBOUND AND THE VIADUCT

NORTHBOUND.

BLANKETS FOR STREET SLEEPERS

* *

DISTRIBUTED TO VARIOUS

A TOTAL OF 582 BLANKETS AND SLEEPING BAGS WERE 535 STREET SLEEPERS BY THE SOCIAL WELFARE DEPARTMENT (SWD) IN PLACES LAST (FRIDAY) NIGHT.

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STREET

THE STUFF WERE SENT OUT BY 112 SWD FIELD STAFF SLEEPERS ON HONG KONG ISLAND, 22 IN EAST KOWLOON, 307 IN WEST KOWLOON, 19 IN NEW TERRITORIES EAST AND 12 IN NEW TERRITORIES WEST.

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