HongHong KongKong InternationalInternational AirportAirport (Chek(Chek--LapLap KokKok Airport)Airport)

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• International Airport (HKIA) is the principal airport serving Hong Kong. • As the world's fifth busiest (2004) international passenger airport and most active worldwide air cargo operation, HKIA sees an average of more than 650 aircraft take off and land every day. • Opened in 6 July 1998, it took six years and US $20 billion to build. • By 2040 it will handle eighty million passengers per year - the same number as London’s Heathrow and New York’s JFK airports combined

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• The land on which the airport stands was once a mountainous island. • In a major reclamation programme, its 100-metre peak was reduced to 7 metres above sea level and the island was expanded to four times its original area.

5/10/2006 Transportation

HKIA Kai-Tak Airport 1998 Onwards 1925-1998 28 km from CBD 10 km from CBD 5/10/2006 10TransportationTransportation Core Projects

Highway + Railway Routes

5/10/2006 North Lantau Expressway

12.5 km expressway along the north Lantau coast, from the to the new airport.

It is the first highway to be constructed along the island's northern coastline.

More than half the route is on reclaimed land.

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• 35 km long • (23 mins from CBD)

5/10/2006 Lantau Link

LANTAU LINK (Tsing Ma , the and the Viaduct.) World's longest road-rail suspension and cable-stayed , providing the first road connection to •3.5kmlong • Upper deck – 6 traffic lanes, 3 in each direction • Lower deck – 2 traffic lanes for emergency use – 2 railway tracks

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Ma Wan Viaduct

Kap Shui Mun Bridge

5/10/2006 Tsing Ma Bridge

Length 2.2 kilometres

Main span 1,377 metres

Shipping 62 metres clearance

Tower height 206 metres

Length of wire in suspension 160,000 kilometres cables

Structural steel 50,000 tonnes

World's longest span suspension bridge carrying Volume of 500,000 cubic both road and rail traffic. concrete metres

5/10/2006 Kap Shui Mun Bridge

World's longest span cable-stayed bridge carrying both road and rail traffic.

Length 820 metres

Main span 430 metres

Shipping 47 metres clearance

Tower height 150 metres

Structural steel 4,800 tonnes

Volume of 73,000 cubic metres concrete

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Tsing Yi section • a 1.6 kilometre dual three-lane twin-tube tunnel through Island • a 500-metre bridge over the Rambler Channel that separates the island from the mainland.

Kwai Chung section • a viaduct built 20 metres above ground. Unlike the rest of the road transport network, it has eight lanes. 5/10/2006 West Reclamation

West Kowloon Reclamation is the largest reclamation ever undertaken in the urban area -- increasing the size of the Kowloon peninsula by one-third and extending the waterfront into the harbour by as much as one kilometre. The project provides 334 hectares of new land between Yau Ma Tei and Lai Chi Kok. This land is being used for the transport infrastructure serving the new airport. It will also be used for various other purposes, including public and private housing for over 100,000 people, Government and community 5/10/2006 facilities and recreational areas.

It is the third road tunnel to be built under Hong Kong harbour, running from the reclaimed land at to Sai Ying Pun on .

The six-lane tunnel has a capacity of 180,000 vehicles daily, far greater than that of the existing four-lane tunnels.

Total length 2 km Length of immersed 1.3 km tube Concrete units in 12 immersed tube Weight of concrete 35,000 units tonnes

5/10/2006 Central Waterfront Reclamation

• Twenty hectares of land have been reclaimed from the Central waterfront and extended the waterfront by up to 350 metres beyond existing shoreline.

• The Hong Kong terminus of the Airport Railway is built on the new land, which also provides opportunities for the expansion of the Central business district.

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