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Timmy Sung

Close to 40 per cent of people polled in a survey said the government should give priority to protecting relics unearthed along the delayed Sha Tin to Central MTR link, but just under this number said they would not accept further delays to the project due to conservation.
A Kowloon City concern group questioned 152 people from a street booth in June. It found that 39 per cent of respondents agreed the relics unearthed so far were worth being given priority for protection. Only 24 per cent disagreed.
However, just over a third of those polled said it was unacceptable for the HK$80 billion rail link to be further delayed for the sake of conservation.
Terence Siu Tin-hung, executive director of the group, said it was "normal" to have such a contradiction as residents in Kowloon City had waited so long for the rail link.
"If you ask me whether they think conservation is not important, I don't think so," Siu said.
It will cost HK$10 million to dismantle and later restore an ancient well found on the site of the station being built in To Kwa Wan.
The government pledged to spend another HK$1 billion to preserve seven other archaeological features, including two other wells dating to the Song (960 to 1279) or Yuan (1279-1368) dynasties and remnants of some stone buildings.
The MTR Corporation says the Tai Wai to Hung Hom section of the link will not open until at least the end of 2019 - a delay of a year because of the archaeological dig in To Kwa Wan.
Siu urged the government to come up with detailed plans to preserve the relics as soon as possible and update the public regularly on what it had found.


Kowloon City residents in Hong Kong say yes to relic protection, no to MTR project delay

It will cost HK$10 million to dismantle and later restore an ancient well found on the site of the station being built in To Kwa Wan. But a third of those polled said it was unacceptable for the HK$80 billion rail link to be further delayed for the sake of conservation. Photo: Dickson Lee

Relics unearthed so far should be given priority for protection, close to 40 per cent of people polled in a survey said. Photo: Dickson Lee

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