Legislators fear a three-year feasibility study of further links between the territory, Shenzhen and Zhuhai will only hold up the projects.
Liberal Party legislator Miriam Lau Kin-yee doubted the Government would need three years to complete the study.
'I really doubt why a feasibility study needs to take so long . . . I am worried that Hong Kong, like foreign countries, needs to take at least 40 years to complete one project,' Ms Lau said yesterday.
Legislators were outraged after the Principal Assistant Secretary for Planning, Environment and Lands, Stanley Wong Wing-hong, told a Legco panel that officials needed three years to assess the feasibility and implications of building Lingdingyang Bridge and Shenzhen-Hong Kong Western Corridor.
Mr Wong said stage one of the Crosslinks Further Study, beginning early next month, would take 18 months to complete and cost $8 million.
The study's three phases are expected to take three years to finish.
