Airport
Core Programme Highways Projects
Route 3 - Kwai Chung and Tsing Yi Sections
The
three kilometre Kwai Chung section is formed by a dual-four
lane elevated highway along Kwai Chung Road corridor that
runs to Lai Chi Kok. It shares structures with about 1.3
kilometres of the Airport Railway where there is a common
alignment. This project also helps to ease the traffic congestion
that occurs in Kwai Chung Road and meets the demands of traffic
serving the container port. Construction works commenced
in 1993 and completed in February 1997.
Erection of precast prestress
beams above the busy
Kwai Chung Road |
Section adjacent to
Kwai Chung Road |
Erection of beam
by gantry at night |
Viaduct for Airport
Railway beneath
Tsing Kwai Highway |
The
Tsing Yi section comprises two kilometres Cheung Tsing Highway
on north-west Tsing Yi. 1.6 kilometres of bored Cheung Tsing
Tunnels under the island and a new 500-metre bridge over the
Ramber Channel to the mainland at Kwai Chung. Construction works
were completed in March 1997.
Cheung Tsing Tunnel
underconstruction |
Inside the Completed
Cheung Tsing Tunnel |
Tunnel Portal
(Tsing Yi East) |
Tunnel Portal
(Tsing Yi West) |
Launching of precast
segments of the Rambler Channel Bridge
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