The department has also commissioned a consultancy study to explore the feasibility of applying advanced technology to enhance the management of the Strategic Road Network.

Together with the other phases of Central and Wan Chai Reclamation, it will accommodate strategic road links along the north shore of Hong Kong Island between Central and the eastern part.

Watan is known to control one key stretch of road that all the truckers use: the strategic route to Kandahar called Highway 1.