TNAG-2143-FCO40-3062-Hong-Kong-Port-and-Airport-Development-Strategy-(PADS)-1990 — Page 114

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Severe congestion would continue on the Mass Transit

Railway/Nathan Road corridor and on

the streets of

West Kowloon because of the elimination of the West

Kowloon

Reclamation.

The

proposals

would also

severely overload the road and transport facilities of the Tsuen Wan and Kwai Chung area while providing no

improvement of access to Tsing Yi.

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A significant opportunity to improve the unacceptably

crowded environment of Mong Kok, Yau Ma Tei, and Tai

Kok Tsui some of the most densely populated areas in

the world would be lost by the elimination of the

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West Kowloon Reclamation.

The bringing forward of the construction of the Green

Island Link would require the Lantau, Port Island and

Green Island reclamation to be constructed well in

It would, advance of both port and traffic demand.

therefore, have to be funded by Government as it is

highly unlikely that

would wish to be involved at that early stage.

any private sector

interests

These deficiencies taken together would result in both

significant additional expenditure, which would fall

largely on the public purse, and sub-optimal cash

flows, which would render various components of the

project unattractive to the private sector.

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