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The main photograph on this page shows the new Star Ferry Piers in Victoria, opened in December 1957. Both the piers and the ferry building can cope with a volume of passengers vastly in excess of the 100,000 or so who now use the ferries daily. A covered way extends from the piers to Connaught Road. To the right is the first of a series of three-tiered public carparks being built to case traffic problems. By way of contrast, the insert (taken from a 50-year old snapshot_album) shows the more leisured scene on the Victoria waterfront near the then recently-built. and still matting-roofed. Blake Pier in 1905. Blake Pier (more permanently roofed in 1908) still stands, but will eventually disappear in a further extension of the Central Reclamation.
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