BENEFITS FOR THE COMMUNITY
 
 
 
 
  Overall, the ACP brings about many benefits for the community:
  
 
- a new international airport located away from the urban area
  - a road/rail network providing speedy access to the airport
  - a better environment for 380,000 residents affected by the Kai Tak flight path
  - a large area of new land, for various uses, at West Kowloon
  - improved traffic links through West Kowloon and Kwai Tsing
  - a mass transit railway linking Central and North Lantau
  - a road tunnel between Sai Ying Pun and West Kowloon
  - the first road link between Lantau Island and the rest of Hong Kong
  - development of a ninth new town
  
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