TUEN MUN Highway will partly reopen this morning, but new traffic arrangements designed to reduce the chronic jams of last week are likely to cause congestion in Tsuen Wan.
The plan approved yesterday by Tuen Mun and Yuen Long district boards will open a section of the Kowloon-bound carriageway, although access will be limited to buses from 6 am to 9 pm.
Kowloon-bound vehicles will switch to the Tuen Mun-bound carriageway at Siu Lam Interchange, travelling in two-way traffic before switching back at the Sham Tseng Interchange.
Castle Peak Road, which was open only to buses, will largely be back to normal.
Officials believe the plan will reduce congestion in New Territories west and northwest, but Commissioner for Transport Lily Yam Kwan Pui-ying warned that Tsuen Wan may suffer in the move to solve the worst of the problems.
'I must stress that the implementation of the plan cannot completely solve the traffic congestion we experienced in the last few days,' she said.