The Highways Department signed a HK$1,366 million contract with China Harbour Engineering Co Ltd for the reconstruction and improvement of a 4.7-km-long section of Tuen Mun Road from Siu Lam to Sam Shing Hui (Sam Shing Hui section).

     The contract is to reconstruct and improve the Sam Shing Hui section of Tuen Mun Road to current expressway standard. The works include widening of traffic lanes, provision of hard shoulders and verges, construction of highway structures, and the associated environmental mitigation measures, drainage works, slope works and landscaping works.

     The reconstruction and improvement for the entire expressway section of Tuen Mun Road, which is a 15.5-km-long dual three-lane expressway linking Tsuen Wan and Tuen Mun, will be implemented under three works contracts. The first two contracts began construction in October 2008 and February 2009, covering the section between Tsuen Wan and Tai Lam. The contract for the Sam Shing Hui section signed is the third and the last contract. Upon completion of the whole project in 2014, Tuen Mun Road will be an up-to-standard expressway linking Tsuen Wan and Tuen Mun.