Tsuen Wan New Town
Public transportation was also developed. Most New Towns were planned with newly built railway (e.g. MTR stations in Tsuen Wan New Town, Tseung Kwan O New Town, Tung Chung and the Ma On Shan Rail for Ma On Shan). Kowloon–Canton Railway was electrified in the mid 1980s in order to provide convenient transportation to Fanling-Sheung Shui New Town, Tai Po New Town and Sha Tin New Town. New towns in West New Territories were interconnected by Light Rail Transit, although at the time they remained the only new towns without direct railway service to the urban areas. Because there was no railway transport, and Tuen Mun Road and Castle Peak Road were the only connections between West New Territories and Kowloon, the traffic between these new towns and the urban areas was once terrible, with serious traffic jams every day. The situation improved when Tai Lam Tunnel opened in 1998. These new towns in the north-western New Territories were finally connected to urban areas with direct railway service when KCR West Rail (now West Rail line) opened in 2003.