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Elevated Pedestrian Walkways

The elevated pedestrian walkway
system in Tsuen Wan (Figure 40) links
up the commercial/residential nodes
around Tsuen Wan Station (Tsuen Wan
Line) and Tsuen Wan West Station
(West Rail Line). It provides a safe and
convenient link for the pedestrians
to access open spaces and different
government facilities, and greatly
relieves them from overcrowding on
pavements. The integrated pedestrian
environment in the New Town will be
continuously improved and expanded.
Figure 40: Pedestrian footbridge in Tsuen Wan

Looking Ahead

The Government will continue to review the land uses and to provide sufficient land to meet various needs
through rezoning and optimising land resources, as and when needed, to enhance the overall living quality of
the New Town.

Housing Port Development

To meet the strong housing demand, the Upon completion of the Study on the Strategic
Government has adopted a multi-pronged Development Plan for Hong Kong Port 2030 and
approach to increase land supply in the short, the Preliminary Feasibility Study for Container
medium and long terms. Whilst there is limited Terminal 10 (CT10) at southwest Tsing Yi in end
amount of readily developable land in the New 2014, it was forecasted that the total container
Town, the Government has identified 25 pieces throughput of Hong Kong Port would have an
of potential housing sites in the New Town in average annual growth rate of 1.5% up to 2030.
2013 for residential developments in the short The growth in international transshipment
to medium term. Among these 25 sites, six of would be the main driver. To cope with the
them have been rezoned in the Tsing Yi and projected future increase in throughput up to
Kwai Chung OZPs from various zonings to 2030, it is necessary to enhance the handling
residential from 2014 to 2016. The rest of them capacity of the existing container terminals
will be rezoned for housing purpose, subject and related infrastructure facilities. The
to the findings of technical assessments and Government will adopt appropriate measures to
feasibility studies. enhance the handling capacity of the terminals
so as to sustain the competitiveness of the
Hong Kong Port. With the adoption of the
enhancement measures, it is anticipated that
development for CT10 before 2030 would not be
required.

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