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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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