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Police will implement special traffic arrangements in the vicinity of the respective cemeteries on Hong Kong Island to facilitate vehicular traffic and pedestrian movements during Chung Yeung Festival.
Details of the traffic arrangements are as follows:
Chai Wan
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The following traffic measures will be implemented between 7am and 6pm on September 18, 24, 25 and October 1, 8, 9, 15, 16, 22, 23, 29 and 30; and between 7am and 6.30pm on October 2 and 5:
1. Road closures
(a) A section of Cape Collinson Road east of Lin Shing Road;
(b) The slip road leading from Cape Collinson Road to the Garden of Remembrance and Crematorium, except hearses and vehicles conveying people to attend services at the Crematorium;
(c) The slip road leading to Chai Wan Chinese Permanent Cemetery;
(d) Wan Tsui Lane; and
(e) Cape Collinson Road and Lin Shing Road may be closed to all vehicular traffic except green minibus 16A, 16M, 16X and 18M, bus route no. 388 and 389, hearses, funeral vehicles and vehicles with closed road permit.
2. Traffic re-routings
(a) A eastern section of Wan Tsui Road between Chai Wan Road and Fei Tsui Road will be re-routed as one-way westbound;
(b) A section of Lin Shing Road from Wan Tsui Road to Cape Collinson Road will be re-routed as one-way southbound; and
(c) A section of Cape Collinson Road from the slip road leading to the Crematorium to Shek O Road will be re-routed as one-way westbound.
No parking will be permitted along Cape Collinson Road, Lin Shing Road, Wan Tsui Road and a section of Shek O Road between Tai Tam Gap Correctional Institution and Tai Tam Road.
Taxis, public light buses (PLBs) and private cars will not be permitted to enter Lin Shing Road for Cape Collinson Road except access to Wan Tsui Estate. They are allowed to drop off passengers at the PLB stand at Fei Tsui Road near its junction with Wan Tsui Road. Private cars are not allowed to enter the carpark of Hing Wah Estate (Phase I) from Wan Tsui Road northbound.
PLBs may be prohibited from entering Tai Tam Road from Chai Wan Road depending on the traffic situation.
A section of Wan Tsui Road between Chai Wan Road and Fei Tsui Road will be prohibited from picking up and dropping off passengers by PLBs.
The PLB stand at Fei Tsui Road near its junction with Wan Tsui Road will be suspended.
The taxi stand at Kut Shing Street outside Chai Wan MTR station will be suspended and relocated to the lay-by outside Block 6 of New Jade Garden.
Pok Fu Lam
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Consort Rise in the vicinity of the Chinese Christian Cemetery will be re-routed one-way southbound from Victoria Road to Bisney Road from 7am to 5pm on October 1, 2, 5, 8 and 9.
Aberdeen
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Peel Rise in the vicinity of the Aberdeen Chinese Cemetery and the slip road from Shek Pai Wan Road leading to the Aberdeen Chinese Cemetery will be closed to vehicular traffic from 7am to 6pm on October 2 and 5; and from 8am to 4.30pm on October 1, 8 and 9.
Happy Valley Area
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Relocation of Tram Stop:
During the period from 7am to 7pm on October 2 and 5, the tram stop on northbound Wong Nai Chung Road opposite to the Hong Kong Jockey Club will be relocated northward for about 30 meters.
Police Report No. 8
Issued by PPRB
Ends/Friday, September 16, 2011
Issued at HKT 12:17
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