An extended pedestrian subway is to be built to help shoppers in Tsim Sha Tsui.
The 240-metre-long subway, costing about HK$215 million, would allow people to get from East Tsim Sha Tsui station to the Canton Road area in 10 minutes, said Ken Wong Kin-wai, senior resident engineer of the Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation.
'It provides an alternative for people. They can walk from one side to the other in the air-conditioned, well-linked pedestrian subway,' he said.
Now, people coming from the East Tsim Sha Tsui station have to get out of the underpass when reaching the Kowloon Hotel and walk to Canton Road.
The new section, named Middle Road Subway Extension, will connect the existing underpass in Middle Road to two government subways, including Kowloon Park Drive Subway and Peking Road Subway.
It is due to be completed, with travellators installed, by late 2009.
To make way for the construction, one of the three driving lanes on Middle Road will be closed.
