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Route 9 (Hong Kong)
Route 9 (), Hong Kong is one of the strategic trunk roads, mostly in the form of a motorway, circumnavigating the New Territories. The route is also known as the New Territories Circular Road (新界環迴公路). Starting from the Shing Mun Tunnels, Route 9 links (moving in an anti-clockwise direction) Sha Tin, Tai Po, Fanling, Sheung Shui, Yuen Long, Tuen Mun and Tsuen Wan. The section between Exit 10 in Kwu Tung and Exit 16 in Lam Tei is part of Asian Highway 1, although the Asian Highway Network is not signed in Hong Kong. History Route 9 was established after a shake-up of the route number system in January 2004, replacing the old system which had been used since 1974. Route description Like other strategic routes in Hong Kong, Route 9 consists of several sections. The section from Tsuen Wan to Sha Tin is derived from the former Route 5, which includes the Shing Mun Tunnels and most of the Tai Po Road - Sha Tin Section. This section was opened in 1990. Route 9 th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shing Mun Tunnels
The Shing Mun Tunnels are a system of tunnels and viaducts in the New Territories, Hong Kong connecting the new towns of Tsuen Wan to the west and Sha Tin to the east. They are a part of Route 9 and the Tsuen Wan entrance is the reset point (As Route 9 is apparently a loop) of Route 9. Construction started on 11 February 1987 and the tunnels opened on 20 April 1990. They are made up of three sections, each with twin two-lane tunnels (one each way). The westerly pair passes through Smuggler's Ridge near Shing Mun Reservoir, where it gets its name from; the easterly pair passes through Needle Hill and is linked to the westerly pair by two viaducts over Lower Shing Mun Reservoir. The toll plaza and bus interchange are located outside the Tsuen Wan end of the tunnel. The tunnels lead to Cheung Pei Shan Road and connect Wo Yi Hop Interchange in Tsuen Wan, and Shing Mun Tunnel Road in the east which links Tai Wai Road and ends at Tai Po Road. The Shing Mun Tunnels are cur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Controlled-access Highway
A controlled-access highway is a type of highway that has been designed for high-speed vehicular traffic, with all traffic flow—ingress and egress—regulated. Common English terms are freeway, motorway, and expressway. Other similar terms include ''wikt:throughway, throughway'' or ''thruway'' and ''parkway''. Some of these may be limited-access highways, although this term can also refer to a class of highways with somewhat less isolation from other traffic. In countries following the Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals, Vienna convention, the motorway qualification implies that walking and parking are forbidden. A fully controlled-access highway provides an unhindered flow of traffic, with no traffic signals, Intersection (road), intersections or frontage, property access. They are free of any at-grade intersection, at-grade crossings with other roads, railways, or pedestrian paths, which are instead carried by overpasses and underpasses. Entrances and exits to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Government Of Hong Kong
The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (commonly known as the Hong Kong Government or HKSAR Government) is the executive authorities of Hong Kong. It was established on 1 July 1997, following the handover of Hong Kong. The Chief Executive and the principal officials are appointed by the State Council of the People's Republic of China in accordance with the outcome of local processes. The Government Secretariat is headed by the Chief Secretary of Hong Kong, who is the most senior principal official of the Government. The Chief Secretary and the other secretaries jointly oversee the administration of Hong Kong, give advice to the Chief Executive as members of the Executive Council, and are accountable for their actions and policies to the Chief Executive and the Legislative Council. Under the " one country, two systems" constitutional principle, the Government is, in law, exclusively in charge of Hong Kong's internal affairs and specified external ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Highways Department
Highways Department is a department of the Hong Kong Government responsible for developing Hong Kong's road and railway network as well as road maintenance. History The department was previously an office within the former Civil Engineering Department and became an independent department on 1June 1986 due to the increasingly complex road network in Hong Kong. In 2024, it launched street signs with a new font to "infuse a strong cultural atmosphere into the community's landscape" to support the government's Task Force on District Governance, with the new font drawing criticism. Directors * Harold Campbell Beaton (1986–1989) * Kwei See Kan (1989–1993) * Kwong Hon Sang (1993–1996) * Leung Kwok Sun (1996–2000) * Lo Yiu Ching (2000–2002) * Mak Chai Kwong (2002–2006) * Wai Chi Sing (2006–2010) * Peter Lau Ka Keung (2010–2016) * Daniel Chung Kum-wah (2016–2018) * Jimmy Chan Pai Ming (2018–present) See also *Civil Engineering and Development Department The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tolo Highway
Tolo Highway () is a major expressway on Route 9 in Hong Kong. It connects the new towns of Sha Tin and Tai Po in the eastern New Territories, forming part of the New Territories Circular Road. The highway, constructed in three stages between 1985 and 1987, was so named as it skirts the western edge of Tolo Harbour. Route description The highway diverges from Tai Po Road near Sha Tin Racecourse. The following of the road, running alongside the East Rail line, was built on an embankment on the west coast of Tolo Harbour towards Yuen Chau Tsai ( Island House), which marks the eastern end of the Tai Po New Town. Construction began in March 1999 to expand the section to a dual four-lane carriageway and was finished in August 2003. The section below the campus of the Chinese University of Hong Kong has since become landlocked owing to the reclamation for the Hong Kong Science Park. The next section, long, bypasses Tai Po on the hills to its south, over Wun Yiu, Ma Wo a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tai Po Road
Tai Po Road ( Chinese: 大埔公路) is the second longest road in Hong Kong (after Castle Peak Road). It spans from Sham Shui Po in Kowloon to Tai Po in the New Territories of Hong Kong. Initially, the road was named Frontier Road. Location The road begins at Cheung Sha Wan Road near Boundary Street and Nathan Road at Sham Shui Po, runs through the valley between Golden Hill and Beacon Hill, and merges into the Tsing Sha Highway in Sha Tin and then the New Territories Circular Road. It then continues northward along Sha Tin Hoi and Tai Po Hoi. It ends at the Tai Po River near Tai Po Market station. History Built in 1902, Tai Po Road is one of the earliest major roads in the New Territories. Until the completion of the Lion Rock Tunnel in 1967, Tai Po Road was the main road connecting the New Territories with Kowloon.Cheng Siu Kei"Making of a New Town: Urbanisation in Tai Po" ''Tai Po Book'' p. 271 Before the construction of the Fanling Highway in the 1980s, the road ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hong Kong Strategic Route And Exit Number System
The Hong Kong Strategic Route and Exit Number System () is a system adopted by the Transport Department of the Hong Kong Government to organise the major roads in the territory into routes 1 to 10 for the convenience of drivers. When the system was implemented in 2004, the government promoted it with a major public campaign, including the slogan "Remember the Numbers; Make Driving Easier" (). The system comprises ten major series of roads in Hong Kong, numbered routes 1 to 10, which can be classified into three categories: the three north-south routes, the six east-west routes and the New Territories Circular Road. The route numbers are displayed as black on yellow "road-shields" on overhead road signs. Parts of the road system are limited-access roads, and a significant portion of these roads are expressways. The system also utilises exit numbering with the exits of each route are numbered sequentially; some exit numbers are suffixed with a letter. Exit numbers are indicate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asian Highway Network
The Asian Highway Network (AH), also known as the Great Asian Highway, is a cooperative project among countries in Asia and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) to improve their connectivity via highway systems. It is one of the three pillars of the Asian Land Transport Infrastructure Development (ALTID) project, endorsed by the ESCAP commission at its 48th session in 1992, comprising Asian Highway, Trans-Asian railway (TAR) and facilitation of land transport projects. Agreements have been signed by 32 countries to allow the highway to cross the continent and also reach to Europe. Some of the countries taking part in the highway project are India ( Act East policy), Sri Lanka, Pakistan, China, Iran, Japan, South Korea, Nepal and Bangladesh. Most of the funding comes from the larger, more advanced Asian nations such as China, South Korea and Singapore as well as international agencies such as the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asian Highway 1
Asian Highway 1 (AH1) is the longest east-west route of the Asian Highway Network, running from Tokyo, Japan via the Korean Peninsula (South Korea and North Korea), China (Mainland China and Hong Kong), Mainland Southeast Asia (Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, and Myanmar), the Indian Subcontinent (India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan), and the Iranian Plateau (Afghanistan and Iran) to the international border between Turkey and Bulgaria west of Istanbul where it joins end-on with European route E80, running all the way to Lisbon, Portugal. Japan The 1200-kilometre section in Japan was added to the system in November 2003. It runs along the following tolled expressways: * Shuto Expressway C1 Inner Circular Route, Edobashi JCT to Tanimachi JCT via Takebashi JCT * Shuto Expressway Route 3 Shibuya Line, Tanimachi JCT to Yoga Exit (Tokyo Interchange) * , Tokyo Interchange to Komaki * , Komaki to Suita via Kyoto * , Suita to Kobe * , Kobe to Yamaguchi via Hiroshima * , Yamaguc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tsuen Wan
Tsuen Wan (formerly also spelled Tsun Wan) is a New towns of Hong Kong, town built on a bay in the New Territories West (constituency), western New Territories of Hong Kong, opposite Tsing Yi, Tsing Yi Island across Rambler Channel. The market town of Tsuen Wan emerged from the surrounding villages and fleets of fishing boats in the area. The modern city is centered the Tsuen Wan station of the MTR. Its coastline was further extended through Land reclamation in Hong Kong, land reclamation. History According to the report of Hong Kong archaeological society, people settled in Tsuen Wan as early as 2,000 years ago. In earlier days, it was known as Tsin Wan (淺灣) which means shallow bay, and later renamed to Tsuen Wan. Another name ''Tsak Wan'' (賊灣, Hakka dialect pronunciation: tshet wan), pirate bay, indicates the presence of pirates nearby long ago. In fact, the area around Rambler Channel was known as Sam Pak Tsin (三百錢), literally meaning three hundred coins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tuen Mun
Tuen Mun () or Castle Peak is an area near the mouth of Tuen Mun River and Castle Peak Bay in the New Territories, Hong Kong. It was one of the earliest settlements in what is now Hong Kong and can be dated to the Neolithic period. In the more recent past, it was home to many Tanka fishermen who gathered at Castle Peak Bay. Tuen Mun is now a modern, mainly residential area in the north-west New Territories. As of 2025, around 540,000 residents live in Tuen Mun. History During the Tang dynasty (618907), a navy town, Tuen Mun Tsan () was established in Nantou, which lies across Deep Bay. Tuen Mun and the rest of Hong Kong were under its protection. A major clan, To (), brought the name Tuen Mun to the area. They migrated from Jiangxi on the Chinese mainland and established a village, Tuen Mun Tsuen (),Antiquities and Monuments OfficeTuen Tsz Wai - History/ref> late in the Yuan dynasty (1272–1368). As more and more villages were established, the village was renamed T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuen Long
Yuen Long is a town in the western New Territories, Hong Kong. To its west lie Hung Shui Kiu (), Tin Shui Wai, Lau Fau Shan and Ha Tsuen, to the south Shap Pat Heung and Tai Tong, to the east Au Tau and Kam Tin (), and to the north Nam Sang Wai. Name According to Gazetteer of Xin'an County (新安縣志) and other ancient maps, Yuen Long was first written as 圓蓢 (lit. Round Basin or Round lowland).Yuen Long Now & Then (n.d.), Hong Kong Public Library. Available at:https://www.hkpl.gov.hk/sc/common/attachments/hkcl/resources/resources_ml_yl.pdf Yuen Long refers to a large plain surrounded by a series of hills, starting from Oyster Hill (蠔殼山) in Ou Tau (凹頭) on the east and ending at Tai Tau Shan (大頭山) in Tuen Mun on the west, which is like a basin. Yuen Long is in the Shan Pui River Basin (山貝河流域). From the literal meaning, it can be inferred that Yuen Long was a swampy lowland with abundant water resources in ancient times. The Cantonese name Yu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
