Construction of Kowloon City Section Newsletter To Kwa Wan Station January 2013 The To Kwa Wan Station will have four entrances, of which one will be at Pak Tai Street and another at Nam Kok Road. A new pedestrian subway will connect the station with the existing subway system at Shatin to Central Link Olympic Garden, providing a convenient connection for passengers Information Centre Opens Major changes have been travelling to Kowloon City. To facilitate the construction of the station implemented in Kowloon City district during the past two months. entrance at Nam Kok Road, a TTMS will be implemented in the first The Shatin to Central Link (SCL) Information Centre was opened for public quarter of 2013. Some of the parking meters on both sides of the use in October 2012. Mr Lau Wai-wing, Chairman of the Kowloon City The TTMS has been implemented road will be cancelled. District Council, Mr William Tsui, District Officer (Kowloon City), Ms Li Lin, in Ma Tau Wai Road since 2 Part of the Sung Wong Toi Playground will be closed temporarily Chairman of Traffic and Transport Committee of Kowloon City District December last year. Building a for works site, but the affected facilities will be restored soon after Council, Mr Cheung Yan-hong, Chairman of SCL Working Group, Mr Henry railway and an underground station There will be an the SCL is completed. There are advance works going on at Sung Lam, MTR General Manager (SCL/KTE) and Mr Philco Wong, MTR General in a densely populated community entrance in Nam Kok Wong Toi Road and Olympic Avenue, including the removal of the Manager (SCL), with is a complicated and very challenging project. Since the station Road for To Kwa Wan central reservation plot and erection of hoardings for constructing a about 30 community Station connected by is located beneath Ma Tau Wai Road, stages of the TTMSs pedestrian subway. pedestrian subway. and government guests, have to be implemented progressively during construction. officiated the opening Through proactive negotiations with the local community, Part of the Olympic Garden ceremony. The Centre we strive to retain existing bus stop locations in southbound has been closed for provides a facility for the and part of northbound carriageways wherever possible facilitating construction. public to find information as at their present locations. It is hoped to minimise any Amenity facilities will be and give opinions about inconveniences inflicted on the public. restored soon after the SCL the SCL during its office is completed. hours. The construction is now in full swing as the implementation of the TTMS is in force and heavy construction equipment can be seen at the works sites. Barging Point To provide an additional channel for the public to communicate The Centre provides with us, we have set up an SCL Information Centre in To Kwa a more direct channel A large amount of spoil will be excavated during the construction Wan for details about the construction of the SCL. From this, for residents in we will learn the public’s expectations and opinions to make of the underground Kowloon City Section. To alleviate any impact Kowlon City to find our work better. These echoes the MTR’s “Listening and on traffic brought by the spoil trucks, the excavated materials of the information about SCL will be transported to the barging point in Kai Tak Development the SCL and express Responding” ideal. I have confidence that the construction of Area and shipped by sea. The facility is estimated to be completed by their opinion. the SCL will be smooth in its progress with your solid support. mid-2013 and part of it is already in use. Railway Ma Tau Wai Road Temporary Know It All Philco Wong The yellow silo tanks shown in Traffic Management Scheme General Manager – SCL picture are for the storage of MTR Corporation bentonite. When constructing To facilitate the station’s underground construction in Ma Tau Wai Road, the underground stations, we have first stage of the temporary traffic management scheme (TTMS), which will to use heavy equipment to make last for about one year, took effect on 2 December 2012. The number of lanes deep trenches for the diaphragm of Ma Tau Wai Road, between Chi Kiang Street and Sheung Heung Road has walls. The trenches are then filled with been reduced to one northbound and two southbound; a new pedestrian a thick mixture of bentonite during crossing and a right-turn movement have been ratified at the junction of Tin Shatin to Central Link excavation for supporting the walls. Kwong Road and Kau Pui Lung Road; and Farm Road has been modified as Information Centre After excavation and putting steel an eastbound one-way road. Closed- Shop no. 30A, Chi Kiang Street, To reinforcements into the trench, circuit television cameras have been we extract the bentonite, installed in the vicinity of Ma Tau Kwa Wan, Kowloon which can be reused, and Wai Road to provide real-time traffic fill it with concrete. conditions for monitoring. Variable Office Hours message signs have been placed in a Mondays to Fridays, 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm number of main trunk roads to prompt Saturdays, 10:00 am - 1:00 pm motorists the condition of Ma Tau Wai For enquiries, please call: Office Hours Road for advance route planning. Closed on Sundays and public holidays MTR Projects Hotline Saturday Monday – Friday 8:30am – 1:00pm Phone no.: 8:30am – 6:00pm 2334 2201 2993 3333 (Except public holidays) SCL Website Calls will be connected to a voice mailbox when the lines are busy or after office www.mtr-shatincentrallink.hk hours. Please leave your message and we will contact you as soon as possible. Kowloon City Section Newsletter MTR and the To divert the Tin Kwong Road contractor have eastbound traffic, Farm Road has Construction of distributed fliers about been modified to eastbound one- Ma Tau Wai Station the TTMS and new way road. Additional railings, anti- locations of bus and skid pavement, and a school bus minibus stops. Signage loading bay have been established is displayed in obvious and a section of the road surface locations to prompt has been narrowed to enhance motorists about road road safety in Farm Road. changes. District Councilors visited the site after the TTMS was implemented. They noted that the To allow motorists to use Chi Kiang Street, Kau Pui Lung measures operate Road and Tin Kwong Road as an alternative route of smoothly and the the affected Ma Tau Wai Road, a traffic light, indicating traffic condition was right-turn movement and pedestrian crossing, have been satisfactory. installed at Tin Kwong Road/Kau Pui Lung Road junction. Ma Tau Wai Road Lok Man Sun Chuen Temporary Traffic Management Scheme There are buildings on both sides of Ma Ko Shan Tau Wai Road thereby limiting the space Theatre Ko Shan Road Kau Pui Lung Road Kau Pui Lung Road available for building an underground. Under such circumstances, the Ma Tau Wai Station will adopt a decked platform design. This three-level station will be about 30 metres deep, 22 metres wide Chatham Road North Maid stone Road Maidstone Road and over three hundred metres long. It Farm RoadFarm also spans the underground of six-lane Ma Tau Wai Road. Since the station has Lok Shan Road to be close to the ground surface, cut- Kiang Su Street Tin Road Kwong Chi Kiang Street and-cover construction method is used. Ma Tau Wai Road Ma Tau Wai Road Heavy machines, some 10-metre tall, are needed to construct the station’s Works Site Two-way Traffic diaphragm walls. Tam Kung Road Schools New traffic lights One-way Traffic To Kwa Wan To Kwa Wan Road Government Offices & Market Pau Chung Street Access to petrol New pedestrian stations crossing Petrol station Loading and unloading area for Pedestrian routes trucks Sheung Heung Road San Shan Road Bus and minibus Information of stops along the TTMS and advice on affected section of alternative routes has Ma Tau Wai Road been displayed on had to be relocated. hoardings outside the worksites. Railway Know It All Caring ambassadors are Do you know what is being deployed to help the construction facility students and pedestrians Caring ambassadors shown in picture? help indicate new bus at road crossings at Farm stop locations and assist Road, Ma Tau Wai Road (Find the answer from P.4) passengers lining up for and Kau Pui Lung Road their buses. during peak hours. Construction of Kowloon City Section Newsletter To Kwa Wan Station January 2013 The To Kwa Wan Station will have four entrances, of which one will be at Pak Tai Street and another at Nam Kok Road. A new pedestrian subway will connect the station with the existing subway system at Shatin to Central Link Olympic Garden, providing a convenient connection for passengers Information Centre Opens Major changes have been travelling to Kowloon City. To facilitate the construction of the station implemented in Kowloon City district during the past two months. entrance at Nam Kok Road, a TTMS will be implemented in the first The Shatin to Central Link (SCL) Information Centre was opened for public quarter of 2013. Some of the parking meters on both sides of the use in October 2012. Mr Lau Wai-wing, Chairman of the Kowloon City The TTMS has been implemented road will be cancelled. District Council, Mr William Tsui, District Officer (Kowloon City), Ms Li Lin, in Ma Tau Wai Road since 2 Part of the Sung Wong Toi Playground will be closed temporarily Chairman of Traffic and Transport Committee of Kowloon City District December last year.