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SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1994

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DRIVING ON LAM KAM ROAD A PLEASURE

ROAD BETWEEN

IT MAKES

THE COMPLETION OF IMPROVEMENT WORKS FOR LAM KAM

ONLY LAM KAM

AND KADOORIE FARM NOT INTERCHANGE ROAD PLEASURE TO DRIVE ON THE ROAD BUT SAFETY HAS ALSO BEEN MUCH ENHANCED.

THE ROAD HAS NOW BEEN BUILT TO A STANDARD 7.3-METRE-WIDE

THE ROAD ALIGNMENT AND LINE VISIBILITY CARRIAGEWAY.

LANE IMPROVED.

A

TWO-

HAVE BEEN

REFUGE ISLANDS AND A CONTINUOUS TWO-METRE-WIDE FOOTPATH COMFORTNESS OF ALONGSIDE THE NEW CARRIAGEWAY HAVE BEEN PROVIDED AND DRIVERS ENHANCED.

THE

UPHILL WITH

PROVISION OF A CLIMBING LANE AT THE NEAR KADOORIE FARM, THE POSSIBILITY OF THE THOROUGHFARE TRAFFIC BLOCKED BY THE SLOW-MOVING HEAVY VEHICLES HAS BEEN REDUCED.

SECTION BEING

THE PROVISION OF PROPER ROAD DRAINAGE SYSTEM AND RIVER TRAINING STRUCTURES REDUCES THE RISK OF FLOODING IN THE ADJACENT AREAS.

THE HYGIENIC CONDITION OF THE NEIGHBOURING VILLAGES

REFUSE GREATLY

WITH THE REPROVISIONING OF FIVE IMPROVED POINTS ALONGSIDE LAM KAM ROAD.

HAS BEEN COLLECTION

TUNG

DESIGN

SINCE THE ROAD IS A TOURIST ROUTE TO LAM TSUEN VALLEY, NG CHAI AND KADOORIE FARM, CAREFUL CONSIDERATION WAS GIVEN AT THE STAGE TO INCORPORATE LANDSCAPE WORKS INTO THE PROJECT AND TO HARMONISE THE ROAD WITH THE SURROUNDING LANDSCAPE.

MORE THAN 31,000 NUMBERS OF PLANTS COMPRISING 32 BEING PLANTED ALONGSIDE THE ROAD.

SPECIES ARE

ΤΟ CONTRACT ALL THESE WORKS WERE PARTS OF THE $65.5-MILLION

ROAD. WORK STARTED IN IMPROVE THE 3.9-KILOMETRE SECTION OF THE OCTOBER 1990 AND WAS SUBSTANTIALLY COMPLETED LAST MONTH.

IN

THE OLDER DAYS, LAM KAM ROAD HAS BEEN IMPORTANT LINK BETWEEN TAI PO AND YUEN LONG.

AND

RECOGNISED

AS AN

HOWEVER, AS THE ROAD WAS SUBSTANDARD BOTH IN TERMS OF ALIGNMENT AND PEDESTRIANS, DRIVERS WIDTH AND WAS HAZARDOUS TO BOTH

LAM KAM ROAD IMPROVEMENT TO TWO OF THE MOST CRITICAL SECTIONS OF BETWEEN CHAI KEK AND PAK NGAU SHEK AND BETWEEN KADOORIE FARM AND SHEUNG TIN WAS COMPLETED IN 1986.

WITH THE OPENING OF TOLO HIGHWAY IN SEPTEMBER 1985, THERE BEEN AN INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF VEHICLES USING LAM KAM ROAD THROUGH ROUTE TO AND FROM NORTHWEST NEW TERRITORIES.

NAM

HAS

AS A

IT IS THEREFORE NECESSARY TO IMPROVE THE REMAINING SECTIONS THE ROAD AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

OF

ROAD

BETWEEN

AT

WITH THE COMPLETION OF IMPROVEMENT WORKS FROM THE LAM KAM INTERCHANGE ALL THE WAY UP TO KADOORIE FARM, ONLY THE SECTION NAM SHEUNG TIN AND ROUTE TWISK ROUNDABOUT WILL NEED TO BE IMPROVED A LATER STAGE.

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