One round-trip two-lane transportation tunnel linking the southern island of Taipa with the Macau Peninsula.
China Telecom Construction Company, has received just over $900,000 to conduct the study and is expected to submit a completed report sometime mid-next year, according to a notice published in the official gazette.
The two areas are already connected by the Governor’s Bridge of Novre de Carvalho and its cable-stay successors, the Siaban Bridge and the Amijade Bridge. Meanwhile, the idea of drilling a tunnel between the two regions dates back 10 years to Edmund Ho, the first chief executive of the Macao Special Administrative Region.
August saw Raimundo Arais do Rosario, director of transport and utilities, announce plans to build a fourth road bridge connecting Macau’s reclaimed zone A with Taipa’s Pac-on Ferry Terminal. He proposed building a fifth or new tunnel near the Governor’s Bridge of Novre de Carvalho (“Old Bridge”).
“It has become necessary to conduct a feasibility study to identify the characteristics such as the length and height of the tunnel, how to carry out construction and the location of the tunnel entry, and to assess the potential impact of construction on the Novre de Carvalho Governor’s Bridge,” the Transport and Public Works Secretariat said.
Eddie Wu, chairman of the Macau Society of Civil and Structural Engineers, told local broadcaster Teledipusao de Macao that any tunnel under Praia Grande Bay would have to be located at least 164 feet from the Governor’s Bridge of Novre de Carvalho to avoid adversely affecting the stability of the structure. He also warned that the new thorough roads will lead to increased traffic.
“Both sides of the Novre de Carvalho Governor’s Bridge are actually busy,” Wu said. “Indeed, the reclaimed area B and the coast opposite Taifa, the location of Ocean Garden, mean more space to build a transport network. On the contrary, the Macau side should consider the connection point and the location of the connection.”
Kuok Keng Man, a spokesman for the Transport Advisory Council, said in Teledipusao de Macau that the government should build the tunnel after completing a master plan for the two-end landfill of the Governor’s Bridge in Novre de Carvalho.안전한 카지노사이트
“If you really have to build an underwater tunnel, you have to come out somewhere,” Mr. Mann said. “I think it’s harder to find a place for the tunnel entrance if there’s already a building when digging through the tunnel.”