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AIRPORT CORE PROGRAMME

CENTRAL AND WANCHAI RECLAMATION : XCX(92)66

COMMENTARY

One Member queried whether the area required

for the airport railway could be uncoupled from the

rest of the reclamation.

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2.

The

be possible.

Chief Secretary said that this might not

If the airport railway was not to go

ahead there would be no

reclamation project now.

urgent

need to start this

If funding is not required

for the railway terminus it would be difficult to ask

the Finance Committee to approve funding for the whole

project at this time. The urgency for funding derived

from the railway component itself.

3.

One Member said we should get on with the

We had been saying for some

further reclamation was required in Central

project in any event.

time that

District for business development.

Even in the

absence of the railway project, the land would be

utilized. A further factor to be considered was the

possibility of building a shorter railway link to ease

congestion on the Nathan Road corridor. This must be

required at some point in the foreseeable future, and