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Question Number 5 Page 2

So this is a necessary step but it does not commit

Government to the funding of the project until all

the other procedures and assessments have been

the

followed, including allocation of funds.

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MR. SOHMEN: Sir, to put the Secretary's reply in context

in connection with the projected annual recurrent costs,

how much road space can be maintained annually for

$1 million?

SECRETARY FOR TRANSPORT: Sir, this $1 million recurrent

cost

is not large in relation, of course, to the road

maintenance which is about $300 million per year. But

I think the question really is the capital cost which

originally was $75 million.

land

It is now $105 million

resumption costs at about $28 million. So one

excluding resum

has to decide whether, in the light of these extra costs,

it is really cost-effective to proceed at this stage

without careful study.

from

DR. LAM (in Cantonese): Sir, from the angle of being fair

and to stop some members of the public thinking that the

Government is holding prejudice against some sectors of the public, is

building a similar project it possible for the Administration to consider in some

other localities in the Territory where the topographical

the Mid-Levels,

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situation is more or less the same to

for example, Choi Wan

Estate, Tsz Wan Shan Estate or Chuk Yuen North Estate and so on.