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Congestion in the Cross-Harbour Tunnel. The new toll scheme for Hong Kong's cross-harbour tunnel, also known as the "three-tunnel diversion," is a plan proposed by Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam in the 2018 Hong Kong Chief Executive's Policy Address to divert traffic from the Cross Harbour Tunnel, Eastern Harbour Crossing and Western Harbour Crossing.
Lung Shan Tunnel: 2019 4.8 N/A Hong Kong Government / Transport Infrastructure Management Limited Toll-free 16,728 N/A Cheung Shan Tunnel: 2019 0.9 N/A Hong Kong Government / Transport Infrastructure Management Limited Toll-free 4688 N/A Tuen Mun–Chek Lap Kok Link: 2020 5.5 N/A Hong Kong Government / Transport Infrastructure Management Limited
The excavation of the tunnel began in November 2002. The project was undertaken by the Civil Engineering and Development Department (CEDD) in Hong Kong. The project included: Site formation, drainage, geotechnical and landscape works for the toll plaza (toll plaza completed in 2004) 0.9 km of three-lane twin-bore tunnel underneath Sha Tin Heights
The Cross-Harbour Tunnel opened in 1972. due to the ever increasing population in Hong Kong and improving prosperity made the construction of further tunnels a necessity. The harbour crossing ferry services continued on until 1998 when Hongkong and Yaumati Ferry ceased to operate these ferry services.
The Discovery Bay Tunnel (Chinese: 愉景灣隧道) is a toll tunnel that links Discovery Bay Road at Yi Pak Au to Cheung Tung Road at Siu Ho Wan beside the North Lantau Highway. It was built for the Discovery Bay residential development on the north-eastern coast of Lantau Island , Hong Kong .
Protesters set fire to toll booths of Hong Kong’s Cross-Harbour Tunnel on the evening of November 14 and early morning of November 15.This footage shows flames blazing from booths on the Kowloon ...
Cross-Harbour Tunnel was completely suspended during protest in November 2019. The Hong Kong government used the operator model "Build Operate Transfer", or "BOT", for the implementation of the tunnel project; Financing and construction was the responsibility of a private enterprise, which was granted a concession to operate and collect tolls for 30 years.
Initially, the Government of Hong Kong had plans to build a bridge across the eastern portion of the harbour but due to fears of the bridge blocking planes landing at Kai Tak airport, this was shelved in favour of a tunnel. [3] In 1986, the New Hong Kong Tunnel Company Limited won the bidding for this contract, and was given the right to run ...