1 April 2020: A thoroughly reliable source has seen an extraordinary SAR Government draft feasibility study, but he has declined to reveal the source.
This study results from the down-turn in Hong Kong’s economy, in turn caused by the 2019 protests and now the pandemic, causing the interruption of third runway construction triggered by a reduced work-force and world-wide shortage of sand.
The study apparently proposes that, as the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge, spanning the Dingaling Channel, has hugely underperformed as a goods supply and commuter link, work on the third runway should be suspended.
Aviation and engineering consultants should then be engaged to study how the four lane dual-carriageway bridge could be converted, perhaps as a stop-gap temporary measure, into two runways, perhaps limited to domestic passenger and government traffic and private aircraft.
The central dividers be removed so that the western section of the bridge would serve the Mainland and the eastern section the SAR. The straight sections only one assumes.
Readers might well think that this proposal is so off-the-wall and atypical of the predominantly rigid and unimaginative thinking of principal SARG officials that it could not possibly be true.
Who knows in these days of crisis and uncertainty but my sauce is sticking to his guns. Forgive me if I remain anonymous but my sauce has sworn me to secrecy and I don’t want his own sauce to dry up.
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