TNAG-1175-FCO40-1477-Proposed-replacement-airport-for-Hong-Kong-at-Deep-Bay-or-Ch-1982 — Page 154

Lord Limerick called on the Governor yesterday afternoon, he

took the line that the Chek Lap Kok site seemed preferable not primarily because of civil aviation considerations but because the cost of infilling the bay and of providing adequate access links (probably by means of a long tunnel through the hills to the north of the present Tsuen Wan-Tsun Mun highway) was about the same as the cost of the bridges and a highway

The Governor repeated that

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along the north shore of Lantao.

a decision was unlikely to be taken without further developments on the 1997 issue.

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