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Subsidence discovered at luxury shopping and living complex next door to brand new terminus for Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link
Signs of subsidence have been discovered at a residential-commercial complex near the Hong Kong terminus of a new high-speed rail line to the mainland, weeks before it is set to start operating.
The 26km local section of the cross-border line, which cost HK$84.4 billion (US$10.8 billion) to build, will open on September 23.
To the west of its West Kowloon terminus, just across the Lin Cheung Road, is a large-scale residential-commercial compound consisting of Hong Kong’s tallest building, the International Commerce Centre, the Elements shopping centre, and a series of luxury apartment complexes above it, including one called the Waterfront.
FactWire has found a series of signs showing possible subsidence at the compound, including a hole more than 200mm deep on a pavement outside the public transport interchange at the ground floor of the shopping centre.