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will be completed by 1984.

By 1981 the Kowloon/Canton Railway should be

double-tracked and electrified to the frontier,

and linked to the Mass Transit Railway through the Kowloon Tong interchange.

By 1980 the second half of the six-lane Tsuen

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Wan/Tuen Mun highway will be open, and the Tsuen

Wan by-pass by mid 1983.

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By the end of 1981 the new coastal motorway from

Sha Tin to Tai Po will be complete.

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The Mass Transit Railway itself will be in full

operation in the urban area by April 1980 and to

Tsuen Wan by 1982. Speaking now so near to the

dust and noise of its construction it is hard to

realise how much this massive project will improve

transport of a large proportion of the population.

So by 1983 the driving time say Aplichau to Tuen Mun could be about forty five minutes, a joumey by underground from Central to Tsuen Wan should take about twenty eight

minutes, or from Hung Hom to Tai Po and Sheung Shui by train about twenty eight and thirty six minutes. You will note

that all these destinations will by 1984 be complete or

virtually complete towns of great or medium size. This

will be a far cry from the Hong Kong hemmed in by the mountains round the harbour of 10 or 15 years ago.