TNAG-2258-FCO40-3254-Hong-Kong-Port-and-Airport-Development-Strategy-(PADS)-Brit-1991 — Page 15

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(b)

Recognition of the need to provide further deep water

berth in the Western Harbour and Penny's Bay on

Lantau.

(c)

Recognition of the need for a Western Harbour road and

rail connection from Hong Kong Island to Lantau.

services

(a) Recognition of the desirability of providing a ring

transportation system for road and rail

linking Hong Kong, Kowloon and

and Lantau to the new

airport, port and metro development.

(e)

Recognition of the desirability of enhancing the Mass

Transit Railway system to East Kowloon, North West New

Territories and the new airport.

3.

Mr Wu's proposals, however,

Government's plans in several aspects,

differ from the

particularly in the

transportation infrastructure required to link the airport to the

urban area. The essential differences include.

(a) Replacing the Lantau Fixed Crossing and the Tsing Yi

sector of Route 3 with a shorter bridge between Sham

Tseng and Ma Wan (Sham Ma Bridge) and a double-deck

viaduct structure over the water along the coastline

from Kwai Chung to Sham Tseng.

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