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proposed Tuen Mun-Yuen Long system. The flows on the light rail system were not explicitly identified and are included in the public bus and railway categories.
Road traffic volumes in
passenger car units (pcu) were estimated using the same vehicle occupancies as for CLK. These were manually assigned to the 1990 and 1996 highway networks.
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5.6.6
The impacts of the airport road traffic and public transport passenger volumes were examined for the Base Strategy and for two levels of Major Growth including respectively 340,000 and 680,000 persons. For highways and public transport in turn, a brief outline is given of current committments and the proposals of the NWNT Study to meet the travel requirements stemming from the New Towns programme and general development in the NWNT, and the additional infrastructure required for Major Growth in the NWNT. An assessment is then made of the additional requirements and impact on the strategy of a replacement airport at Deep Bay.
ROAD TRAFFIC IMPACT. The current highway programme includes the New Territories Circular Route from Au Tau to Tai Po via Fanling, the Tai Po-Shatin highway, and the Tuen Mun Road. The section of Castle Peak Road from Tuen Mun to Yuen Long, currently an all-purpose dual carriageway with frontage activity and at-grade junctions, is the weak link in the network. The NWNT study proposed a new dual two lane trunk route from Au Tau to the Tuen Mun Road and the adoption of Castle Peak Road as primary distributor between Tuen Mun and Yuen Long. This would be required by the mid 1980's to meet projected traffic volumes generated by the development of Tuen Mun and trend growth in the
NWNT.
5.6.7
By the late 1980s, the Tsuen Wan Southern Bypass and Kwai Chung Road will be overloaded unless additional capacity can be provided in the Tsuen
Wan West Kowloon Corridor. A solution, proposed by the North Lantau Transport Access Study would be to construct the Yau Kom Tau Bridge between the Tuen Mun Road west of Tsuen Wan and Tsing Yi Island, a new route across Tsing Yi connecting to the duplicated southern Tsing Yi Bridge, and then into a new expressway route running in the reserve to the rear of the Kwai Chung container terminal and on elevated structure Or new reclamation along the Lai Chi Kok West Kowloon coastline to Jordan Road. This route would take all traffic between the urban areas and Tuen Mun, NWNT, and Tsing Yi out of Tsuen Wan and Kwai Chung road system.
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