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LAND, PUBLIC WORKS AND UTILITIES

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constructed under the Housing Authority's Private Sector Participation Scheme and by the Housing Society, will be built in Tsing Yi Town Centre providing accommodation for a further 9 000 people.

The construction of Container Terminal 6 is substantially complete and most of the facilities are in operation. Container Terminal 7, scheduled to be completed in 1990, will provide an additional 31 hectares of land for the world's busiest container port.

Several major highway projects, to improve the busy Kwai Chung Road linking Kwai Chung with Kowloon, have been progressing satisfactorily. An additional road link off Kwai Chung Road to the Container Port is under construction to cope with additional traffic resulting from continuing port expansion. The Tsuen Wan section of Route 5, linking Tsuen Wan with Sha Tin, is due to be completed early in 1990. Road improvement schemes on Texaco Road and Kwan Mun Hau Street have commenced to alleviate traffic congestion in Tsuen Wan district.

The basic services to Kwai Chung Park at Gin Drinker's Bay have been completed and the construction of a garden, a miniature golf course and playgrounds will proceed. The completion of Tso Kung Tam outdoor recreation centre has provided further recreational facilities including swimming pools, tennis courts and a jogging trail, in addition to dormitories for overnight campers.

The newly-reclaimed land off Yeung Uk Road is being planned for modern commercial/ residential developments which will revitalise Tsuen Wan town centre. Plans are also being drawn up to implement environmental improvements to, and expansion of, the existing villages to the north of Tsuen Wan.

Sha Tin

The development of Sha Tin began in 1973. The population has since grown from 30 000 to 530 000 and is expected to reach 700 000 by the end of the century, when about 60 per cent of the population will live in some form of government-subsidised public housing. The new town has reached a relatively advanced stage of development and most of the works carried out during 1989 were intended to complete or enhance its infrastructure and provide community facilities.

The increasing population in Sha Tin, Tai Po and North districts continued to cause traffic congestion on Sha Tin's external transport links although much effort has been made to improve the road system. The situation will improve when Route 5, a road tunnel from Sha Tin to Tsuen Wan and West Kowloon, is completed early in 1990. Work has also started on the Sha Tin approaches to Tate's Cairn Tunnel which will provide a road link to East Kowloon by mid-1991.

In the newly-developing areas in Ma On Shan, work has started on the construction of roads and drains to meet the target of accommodating another 200 000 people by the end of the century.

Modification to the Sha Tin Sewage Treatment Works is in hand to further improve the quality of effluent and the water quality of Tolo Harbour. In addition to various other community facilities, work has also started on a 3.6-hectare district open space which will include the territory's first full-size grassed public baseball pitch.

Tuen Mun

Tuen Mun is being developed mainly on land reclaimed from Castle Peak Bay and on platforms formed in the valley between Castle Peak and the Tai Lam hills. In 1989, about 11 hectares were reclaimed for residential and industrial development.