Airport Core Programme
Airport Core Programme was a series of infrastructural works organised by the Government of Hong Kong during the 1990s. The plan was intended to reinstate confidence of Hong Kong after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. As the plan illustrated a vision of a prosperous and blooming future for the city, it was also known as The Rose Garden Project. The whole plan cost HK$200,000,000,000, the most expensive infrastructural project in Hong Kong ever realised up to date.
The programme includes:
- Construction of a new Hong Kong International Airport north of Lantau Island
- Building of bridges (including the Tsing Ma Bridge) to connect Lantau Island with Kowloon Peninsula
- Construction of Expressways between the new airport and the urban area
- Land reclamation in west Kowloon for construction of roadways
- Construction of a third cross-habour tunnel (Western Harbour Crossing) between Kowloon and Hong Kong Island
- Land reclamation in northern part of Hong Kong Island to make way for roads
- Development of a new town in Tung Chung on northern Lantau
- Construction of a rail line connecting the airport and Tung Chung with urban areas
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