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More than 10,000 signatures opposing the MTR South Island Line's route had been submitted to the government when a two-month objection period on the link ended on Tuesday.
The grievances will have to be considered before the project can move on to the next stage.
A group of Southern District residents collected 4,000 signatures during a two-day street campaign that called for the entire link to be pushed underground. A further 500 people offered their support on the internet. 
A rehabilitation centre for the mentally ill collected 6,558 signatures from the patients and their family members, who hope a viaduct section of the link will be put underground.
While district residents support construction of the link, many are unhappy about a viaduct section above the nullah between Nam Fung Road and Ap Lei Chau. 
The train line would damage the area's beautiful scenery and pass several noise-sensitive institutions - a seminary, a temple, a home for the elderly and a hostel for the mentally disabled. 
Tai Wong Yeh, a temple at the mouth of the nullah near Wong Chuk Hang, also filed an objection over the viaduct design on Tuesday. 
Temple keeper Paul Cheung Kin-hung said the government was going to take over a small piece of land between the temple and the nullah. The temple has used the land for rituals for 20 years.
Cheung said the land was being claimed to make way for a viaduct foundation column, which would be built right outside the temple's entrance. 
The MTR has already agreed to enclose the viaduct to lessen the noise, but engineers are still studying ways to move the viaduct away from the complainants. 
Suggested alternatives may be made in two weeks.
This is an edited version of the article published in the South China Morning Post on September 23



10,000 object to proposed MTR route across island's south