kai tak - a wasted planning opportunity

Kai Tak

Let this not be a wasted opportunity

May 2013

The promise

Open spaces

10km Promenade

Long and empty promenade

Far from hom

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20haResidential neighbourhoods are segregated from the leisure, recreation and sports activities

along the approach channel by roads, flyovers and amenity areas.

Jungle of roads

Excited about Kai Tak?

Central Kowloon Route

Air vent shafts

Utilities

Kai Tak TunnelUtilities

Roads

Roads

Roads

Roads

Roads

Roads

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Roads

Roads

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Roads

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Worried about Kai Tak?

I’m very worried about Kai Tak..

It’s a planning disaster!!!

Compare DarlingHarbourinSydneywith Kai Tak

Roads run behind the waterfront properties, or well above it

Sydney,DarlingHarbourcombinesfunwithroads

Sydney, Darling Harbour under the flyovers

Roads run behind the waterfront properties

Compare Marina BayinSingaporewithKai Tak

Marina BaySingapore

Singapore, Marina Bay

Fight for a better home• The planning of Kai Tak is a disaster.

• Where Singapore and Sydney have used similar water bodies to create world class destinations we excel in creating nothing out of our 10km waterfront.

• One of the problems is the Central Kowloon Route. It will be gazetted soon and unfortunately we will all have to object.

• We can’t let the road engineers destroy Kai Tak in the same way they have destroyed the Kowloon West Reclamation.

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