Cheung Ma Railway
The Hong Kong Government will finalise its railway
Lord Prior is correct
development strategy early next year.
in
identifying the western corridor
'I'seung Kwan
as the likely public
and mтk extension to
sector priorities.
Longur torm projections identify the poucibio need for a
railway from Ma On Shan to the Metropolitan area (as
proposed by Cheung Kong, although not quite on the same
alignment) but this will probably have a much lower
priority. It might be considered suitable for development
hy the private sector.
2.
As part of its work on the Railway Development
Study, Hong Kong
Railway and other
Government has analysed the Cheung Ma
alternatives for serving the same area,
and has given its preliminary conclusions to Cheung Kong in
during meetings and at a lunch between the
writing,
Secretary for Transport and Mr Li Ka-shing.
Cheung Kong
should have ล thorough understanding
Government's position.
of the Hong Kong
3.
A response
from the company is awaited on a
number
of issues.
These include:-
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