The Highways Department signed a $4.02 billion contract with Chun Wo–CRGL–MBEC Joint Venture for the Central-Wan Chai Bypass project.
     The contract mainly involves the construction of a 300-metre tunnel in North Point and an approach road to the tunnel, modification of the section of the Island Eastern Corridor between Hing Fat Street and Po Leung Kuk Yu Lee Mo Fan Memorial School as well as the junction of Victoria Park Road and Hing Fat Street, and demolition of the Rumsey Street Flyover eastbound down ramp in Central.
     It also covers associated works such as landscaped decks, noise barriers, noise semi-enclosures, road drainage and landscaping works. Construction will take about seven years.