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Article: HK$28b bypass gets the green light Work on Central-Wan Chai link to start by end of year; activists may go to courts again.
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- South China Morning Post
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- May 21, 2009
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Byline: Joyce Ng
Construction of the long-planned Central-Wan Chai bypass will start by the end of the year, the government announced yesterday.
It said the HK$28 billion project, after clearing all its legal obstacles, was approved by the Executive Council on Tuesday and would be submitted to the Legislative Council, to seek funding.
But the Society for the Protection of the Harbour, which has mounted a series of legal challenges to the project, warned it would not rule out further legal action unless the government explained clearly why the project was not being co-ordinated with the Sha Tin-to-Central rail link, part of which would follow a ...