Whitty Street is a street in
Shek Tong Tsui, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. Named after R.C. Whitty, the first manager of
Hong Kong and China Gas Company,
[ p. 248] the street is well known as one of seven terminals of the
Hong Kong Tramways. The road starts from
Queen's Road West, crossing
Des Voeux Road West
Des Voeux Road Central ( Chinese: 德輔道中) and Des Voeux Road West ( Chinese: 德輔道西) are two roads on the north shore of Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. They were named after the 10th Governor of Hong Kong, Sir William Des Vœux. Th ...
and ends in
Connaught Road West
Connaught Road ( Chinese: 干諾道) is a major thoroughfare on the north shore of Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. It links Shing Sai Road in Kennedy Town to the west and Harcourt Road in Admiralty to the east.
Location
The road consists ...
.
In the 1970s, there was a plan for an
MTR
The Mass Transit Railway system, known locally by the initialism MTR, is a rapid transit system in Hong Kong and the territory's principal mode of Rail transport in Hong Kong, railway transportation. Operated by the MTR Corporation (MTRCL), ...
station (named
Whitty station) to be built beneath the street for the residents of Shek Tong Tsui. Space is reserved for the exit of the future station. Nonetheless, the plan has never come to fruition. A new plan suggests that a station would be built near the private housing estate
The Belcher's
The Belcher's () is a private residential estate in Shek Tong Tsui, Hong Kong Island. It consists of six residential buildings constructed in two phases; three buildings were constructed in each phase. Construction for the first phase was comp ...
instead of on Whitty Street.
These MTR proposals were eventually superseded by the
West Island line extension, which opened
HKU station
HKU () is a station on the Hong Kong MTR located in the Shek Tong Tsui neighbourhood of Western, Hong Kong. The station is named after the adjacent University of Hong Kong.
Part of the West Island line, a westward extension to the existing ...
just south of Shek Tong Tsui. HKU station's Exit B1 opens directly onto the southern end of Whitty Street.
See also
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List of streets and roads in Hong Kong
The following are incomplete lists of Controlled-access highway, expressways, tunnels, bridges, roads, Avenue (landscape), avenues, streets, crescents, Town square, squares and bazaars in Hong Kong.
Many roads on the Hong Kong Island conform to ...
References
External links
About the name Whitty (in Chinese)
Shek Tong Tsui
Roads on Hong Kong Island
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