Highways Dept. and their consultants (Meinhardt and MVA Hong Kong Ltd.) outlined the plans for Stage 1 of Hiram's Highway. (Actually phase 3 of Stage 1, phases 1 & 2, from Clearwater Bay Road to the Nam Pin Wai roundabout having already been built.) The works - conceived and designed some 10 years ago - are considered necessary because the road is already at "saturation point" and an increase in the number of vehicles (mostly tourists and apparently people coming from TKO) is expected in the future. The attendees opposed the scheme and stressed the fact that the whole project is unnecessary. Minutes

Overall layout

Layout for Southern section

Layout for Ho Chung section

Layout for Northern section (Marina Cove)

Highways Department has appointed a consultant to carry out the consultation process regarding the widening of Hirams’ Highway. The session included a brief presentation from the consultant (including a series of wrong population forecasts), followed by a Q&A session and small group discussions.

The outcome was that Highways Department confirmed that there will be no four-lane carriageway and they are looking at other options. For more information about the meeting you can visit FSK's NOTES (our comments included) or for go directly to the Highways page for the official version.

On the 12th of February, a few members of the FSK Committee met with reps of the Highways Dept and their consultant for the Hiram's Highway Improvement - Stage 2 (Marina Cove to Sha Ha). The intent was to discuss the process for consultation on the project. Click here for the NOTES from that meeting. These notes include (FSK Comments) which will give you an insight into some member thoughts as the meeting progressed.

If you have any thoughts or comments we have opened up a forum page to record your views.

More information

According to Highways Department: The purpose of the road project is to improve the remaining sections of Hiram's Highway between Clear Water Bay Road and Marina Cove, the project is now in the preliminary design stage. The Sai Kung District Council Traffic & Transport Committee has indicated support to the project.

Some of the improvements suggested (e.g. noise barriers) shoudl be a good thing. However the overall obejctive of the dualling is not very clear as it seems that it won't really ease the existing bottlenecks at the entrance of Ho Chung (where the traffic lights will be retained) and at Marina Cove (where a new set of traffic lights is intended). Furthermore if Stage 2 does not go ahead as a dualling project then Stage 1 will only move bottlenecks up the road.

Click here for the consultation paper provided to the Committee for discussion at its meeting on 21 February.