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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