MTR Corporation says it has submitted proposal for verifying platform at troubled station under construction
- Beleaguered company is set to tear up part of the platform at Hung Hom station to check its structural integrity
- Demolition work is likely to be carried out in December
Hong Kong’s embattled MTR Corporation is set to tear up a new platform at Hung Hom station in December as the government tries to get to the bottom of the construction scandal plaguing Hong Kong’s most expensive rail project, the Post has learned.
In a press statement issued on Friday, the rail giant said it had submitted to the government a ‘holistic’ proposal for verifying the structural integrity of platform slabs at the station extension under the HK$97.1 billion (US$12.4 billion) Sha Tin-Central link.
The company did not specify the details of the proposal, only saying that the strategy had taken into account the views of the government and a three-member expert team appointed by the government to look into the station’s construction issues.
“The Corporation has also been working closely with its external consultants to continue the assessment of the structural integrity of the station extension,” it said.
The rail firm said that, upon acceptance by the government and the expert team, its projects team would work to “commence the implementation of the strategy as soon as possible to give the public assurance as to the quality and safety of the structure”.