Kwun Tong line will extend to Whampoa
The MTR Corporation is to extend its Kwun Tong line from Yau Ma Tei past Ho Man Tin to Whampoa under revised proposals for the new Sha Tin to Central Link project.
The location of a Central South station planned beneath Lan Kwai Fong may also be changed, a paper prepared by the Transport and Housing Bureau for the Legislative Council shows.
The amendments were made following a decision by the MTR Corp and the Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation.
The KCRC, which was selected to build and operate a railway line linking Sha Tin to Central in June 2002, put forward planning proposals in February 2004.
The rail companies both put forth new proposals under which the KCRC and MTR Corp's interchange stations will be provided at Diamond Hill, Ho Man Tin, Exhibition and Admiralty.
The paper also shows a proposed Causeway Bay North station will be scrapped 'in view of the possible serious disruption to traffic in the Causeway Bay area arising from the construction of the station and the low cost-effectiveness of providing the station under the merge scenario'.
