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Vanished sidewalk: side-effect of the old town renovation

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Vanished sidewalk: side-effect of the old town renovation

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Yantian District, where the Sha Tau Kok Port is located, is blocked by Wutong Mountain with Shenzhen central area. Before the appearance of Sha Tau Kok Metro Station, the speed of infrastructure construction and economic development lagged behind the center of Shenzhen. Although Sha Tau Kok Port can go directly to Hong Kong International Airport Station and Hong Kong's Kowloon Tong Station, its utilization rate is much lower than that of Shenzhen Bay Port and Luohu Port in the city center.

At the end of October 2020, Metro Line 8 was opened in Yantian District, which boosted Yantian District's economic development. Yantian District had become livelier and more prosperous than ever since many businesses and real estate developers began to pour money into this small corner. However, subway construction, demolition and reconstruction of old houses, infrastructure renovation, and construction of new business districts have not stopped in this old district for a single moment in recent years, and residents' daily travel has been seriously affected.

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An older man was driving on a motorway in an electric wheelchair because the subway construction occupied the road, and the bicycles occupied the sidewalk.

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The real estate developer enclosed the area where the old houses planned to be demolished by red plastic barriers.

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A mother with her baby tied to her chest can only stop her bicycle and walk through the narrow temporary passage in small steps due to the red plastic fence occupying the sidewalk.

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The excavator was moving the fragments of the old house that had just been pushed near the port. The construction site had to spray water to prevent the dust from scattering.

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The floor of a small playground in the community was knocked down and replaced with new tiles.

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A worker  was blocking a child who approached trolley.

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The drill bit of the construction truck parked on the side of the road is used to break the asphalt road, and the shovel next to it was used to remove wasted asphalt waste; not far away was a newly built commercial house.

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He Meijuan, 67, a grocery store owner. The sidewalk and road in front of her store were being renovated and widened.

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Ma Yueming, 41, was the owner of a restaurant. The project in front of his store has been going on for two years. On Nov. 28, he came to his store to liquidate and prepare to close the store.

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To avoid dust and noise, most pedestrians choose to walk directly on the motorway at a large intersection even if the sidewalk has been repaired.

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A worker was pulling a two-wheeled cart to transport sand and gravel to pave the new road around the Sha Tau Kok Metro Station.

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A female worker was replacing an advertisement for a bus stop where passengers needed to step over the depression to get on and off the bus due to the ground renovation.

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Liu Hui, 48, a resident living nearby, said it was inconvenient to buy food by herself because many shops around were closed, although she was satisfied that the newly built sidewalk was much broader and flatter than before.

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A construction worker was mixing the sand to be laid under the floor tiles.

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At 5 pm, a mother took her three children through the sidewalk construction section that was about to be completed, and the restaurant behind them was empty.

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At 7 pm, the construction site near the residential area was still laying foundations, and an empty dump truck drove out of the site.

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This was a commercial-residential project that was about to be completed.

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A sales center hired three clowns to perform juggling in front of the hall to attract passersby's attention.

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The real estate that the sales manager was introducing to two customers would be officially completed and handed over in 2023.

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The average price of the two newly constructed high-rise commercial residences nearest to the Sha Tau Kok Metro Station was 60,000 CNY per square meter. Before the subway was completed, the second-hand house price here was 25,000-30,000 CNY per square meter; the road in front of them had not yet been completed.