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Garden Road route, connecting the mid and upper levels of the Peak area with the central district. The latest stage to be opened was the flyover over Queen's Road East-the second flyover in the project. A scheme to provide a limited access three-lane dual car- riageway link for traffic between Harcourt Road and King's Road was initiated. It is designed to relieve congestion in the existing east-west routes and to provide free access to the proposed cross- harbour tunnel interchange. The improvement of the Caine Road- Arbuthnot Road-Upper Albert Road junction, the last essential junction improvement in the mid-level-central area linked traffic routing scheme, was also completed. Planning continued on the re-alignment of a section of Pokfulam Road, on a new road from Wong Chuk Hang Road to Deep Water Bay Road and on the widening of Chai Wan Road.

In Kowloon, the 4,700-foot-long road through Lion Rock Tunnel was opened to traffic in November. It incorporates the latest equip- ment for toll operation and provides a direct through route to Sha Tin and the New Territories. Another stage in the provision of a fast new route to the western New Territories was completed with the opening of the Lai Chi Kok Road extension; this will connect up with the bridge across Lai Chi Kok Bay, which is due to open in 1968. Planning work on two major flyover schemes in Princess Margaret Road was completed and widening and recon- struction works were in hand on many major traffic routes in the

area.

In the New Territories, the two-mile long road connecting the north portal of the Lion Rock Tunnel to Tai Po Road at Sha Tin was completed and the construction of the first stage of the Junk Bay Road, from Lei Yue Mun Road to Sau Mau Ping, progressed. Other new roads, constructed primarily to serve development areas, are in the towns of Tsuen Wan, Kwai Chung, Yuen Long and Tai Po. A report on improvement of the traffic route linking Tsuen Wan and the proposed new town at Castle Peak was completed by the Consulting Engineers, Messrs Scott, Wilson, Kirkpatrick and Partners. Investigations were also carried out into the improvement, to dual-carriageway standard, of lengths of road from Castle Peak to Ping Shan and from Yuen Long to Au Tau, and into the selec- tion of the most suitable alignment for a by-pass at Tsuen Wan.