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List of streets and roads in Hong Kong. The following are incomplete lists of expressways, tunnels, bridges, roads, avenues, streets, crescents, squares and bazaars in Hong Kong. Many roads on the Hong Kong Island conform to the contours of the hill landscape. Some of the roads on the north side of Hong Kong Island and southern Kowloon have a ...
Ho Man Tin Government Offices, 88 Chung Hau Street, Ho Man Tin, Kowloon. Employees. 2 510 (Mar 2022) [1] Annual budget. HK$4,270 million (2022-23 FY) [1] Agency executive. Chan Pai Ming Jimmy, from 20 Dec 2018 [2], Director of Highways. Website.
The speed limits for most vehicles (see the paragraph below for exceptions) on the Hong Kong highways are 110 km/h for North Lantau Highway, 100 km/h for the New Territories roads and West Kowloon Highway, 80 km/h for the most expressways and 70 km/h, due to the older ones such as Island Eastern Corridor, East Kowloon Corridor, West Kowloon ...
Route 9 (Chinese: 九號幹綫), 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).
Jyutping. wan6 syu1 cyu5. The Transport Department of the Government of Hong Kong is a department of the civil service responsible for transportation-related policy in Hong Kong. The department is under the Transport and Logistics Bureau . The Transport Department was created on 1 December 1968 as a separate department within the Hong Kong ...
Route 2 (Hong Kong) Route 2 (Chinese: 二號幹綫) of Hong Kong is a series of expressways that runs from Quarry Bay of Hong Kong Island to Ma Liu Shui of the New Territories East, formerly known as route 6, and renamed as route 2 in 2004 under the route numbering scheme proposed in the same year. Route 2 consists of 4 parts, from South to North:
After World War II, the Eastern District of Hong Kong Island developed rapidly. As a result, the major thoroughfare in the area, King's Road, became very congested. [1]To relieve the issue of congestion, the idea of constructing an elevated vehicular corridor in the Eastern District was brought out in 1968, as part of the Hong Kong Long Term Road Study.
There are 120 CCTV cameras monitoring traffic on these highways and connecting roads which are available on-demand and on the Transport Department's website. Highways in Hong Kong use two types of barrier system for divided highways. Older roads use metal guard rails and newer roads use the British Concrete step barrier.