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which now forms a parallel up-route with Garden Road, the latter becoming a one-way down-route. Work began in April on another two flyovers on Garden Road to link Kennedy Road and Upper Albert Road. Most ground-level works for the Waterfront Road project, designed to provide a high capacity route linking the central business district with the cross harbour tunnel and North Point were opened to traffic. The three completed flyovers at the junctions of Arsenal Street, Fleming Road and at Causeway Bay provide grade separation to cross-road traffic. Several footbridges at various inter- vals along the route offer safe pedestrian crossings. Remaining works on the network linking Waterfront Road with the tunnel and on the Tsing Fung Street flyover linking Waterfront Road with King's Road were near completion.

New roads were constructed in conjunction with building develop- ments in Morrison Hill, Chai Wan, Wan Chai reclamation, Jardines Lookout and Tin Hau Temple Road. A number of existing roads were also widened to meet the increasing traffic demand, including Connaught Road Central, Kennedy Road, Wongneichong Gap Road, Mount Parker and Plunkett's Road. Major improvements also commenced at the junction of Pok Fu Lam Road/Bonham Road/Hill Road.

In Kowloon, three of the five flyovers for the $40 million complex at the Kowloon City and San Po Kong interchanges were opened to traffic and good progress was maintained on the remaining two, which, when completed, will permit free-flow traffic conditions through these heavily congested junctions. New roads were built in connection with the government low-cost housing estate at Ko Chiu Road and the resettlement estate at Pak Tin. Two ferry con- courses with bus and public light' bus terminals at Kwun Tong and Tai Kok Tsui were near completion. The planning of the primary distributor road along the western waterfront of Kowloon peninsula, now known as the West Kowloon Corridor, continued. The ground- level road linking Canton Road with Tong Mi Road and involving reclamation of part of the Yau Ma Tei typhoon shelter progressed with the construction of sea walls and the placing of fill. Consulting engineers were engaged on the planning of the route linking the Kwai Chung container terminal (now under construction) to Kwun Tong, and work on some sections of this route has already been put in hand.

In the New Territories a road to the top of Beacon Hill was com- pleted, giving access to the proposed new Civil Aviation Surveillance Radar station. The section of the road linking Tai Wan to Kei Ling Ha Lo Wai was near completion. Work continued on widening the