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Proposed flyover at Pok Oi Interchange

The Highways Department has proposed to construct a flyover at Pok Oi Interchange linking Route 3 Country Park Section in the north and Yuen Long Highway in the south.

Upon the opening of Route 3 Country Park Section in mid-1998, all southbound traffic along Route 3 heading for Yuen Long and Tuen Mun and along Yuen Long Highway for Route 3 will have to go through the Pok Oi Interchange.

On the project, a spokesman for the department said: "The proposed flyover will serve as an alternative route of through traffic for motorists and provide relief to the ground traffic at the interchange."

The proposed construction works will include:

construction of a dual-two lane trunk road of about 400 metres in length linking Route 3 Country Park Section and the proposed slip roads, including a flyover of about 130 metres in length above the existing roundabout at Pok Oi Interchange;

construction of a two lane slip road on each side of the proposed road to connect it with the district distributor roads of Yuen Long Highway;

reconstruction of part of the existing district distributor roads of Yuen Long Highway; and

ancillary works including drainage, landscape works, erection of noise barriers and slope works.

A notice of the proposed works was gazetted today (Friday).

A plan showing the extent of the proposed works can be seen at the following government offices:

Central and Western District Office, Public Enquiry Service Centre, ground floor, Harbour Building, 38 Pier Road, Central, Hong Kong;

District Lands Office, Yuen Long, 9-11th floor, Yuen Long Government Offices, 2 Kiu Lok Square, Yuen Long, New Territories; and

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