Route 5 (Hong Kong)
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| Route 5 |
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| Length: | 16.4 km (10 mi) |
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| Formed: | 1968 (Lai Chi Kok Bridge) |
| From: | Ngau Tau Kok |
| Major junctions: |
29 |
| To: | Tsuen Wan |
| Major cities: | Hong Kong |
| System: | Hong Kong Strategic Route and Exit Number System |
Route 5 (Chinese: 五號幹綫) is a route artery in Hong Kong from eastern to western Kowloon and New Kowloon, and ends in Tsuen Wan in the New Territories, linking Route 9.
Part one of the road begins in the east from Kowloon Bay westwards via central Kowloon to Yau Ma Tei.
From Yau Ma Tei the road heads north to Tsuen Wan and meets with Route 9 (Hong Kong).
Areas passing through by Route 5 includes:
Roads that are part of it:
- Kwun Tong Road
- Kai Fuk Road
- Airport Tunnel
- East Kowloon Corridor
- Chatham Road North
- Gascoigne Road Flyover
- Ferry Street Flyover
- Tong Mi Road and Flyover
- Tai Kok Tsui Road Flyover
- West Kowloon Corridor
- Lai Chi Kok Road
- Kwai Chung Road
- Tsuen Wan Road
There are plans to expand the route to a highspeed roadway to ease congestion within Kowloon to outlying areas in the New Territories and alternate to Route 7 (Hong Kong).
[edit] Observed Roads and Exits
| Westbound towards Tsuen Wan | Eastbound towards Ngau Tau Kok | ||
| Exit | Destination | Exit | Destination |
| Ngau Tau Kok (intersection with Route 7) | |||
| Kai Fuk Road | |||
| 1A | Kwun Tong Industrial Area | ||
| 1B | Route 2 southbound towards Quarry Bay | ||
| 1C | Kowloon Bay | ||
| 2 | Kowloon Bay | 2 | Kowloon Bay |
| Kai Tak Tunnel | |||
| 2A | Kowloon City | ||
| East Kowloon Corridor | |||
| 3 | To Kwa Wan | 3 | To Kwa Wan |
| 3A | Kowloon City | ||
| 4 | Ho Man Tin | 4 | Ho Man Tin |
| 5 | Hung Hom | 5 | Hung Hom |
| 6 | Route 1 southbound via Cross-Harbour Tunnel | 6 | Route 1 southbound via Cross-Harbour Tunnel |
| 6A | Tsim Sha Tsui | ||
| 6B | Ho Man Tin | ||
| 6C | Yau Ma Tei | ||
| 6D | Yau Ma Tei | ||
| 6E | Tsim Sha Tsui | ||
| West Kowloon Corridor | |||
| 7A | Tai Kok Tsui | ||
| 7B | Yau Ma Tei | ||
| 7C | Mong Kok | ||
| 8B | Cheung Sha Wan | ||
| 8C | Cheung Sha Wan Road | ||
| Kwai Chung Road | |||
| 9 | Lai Chi Kok | 9 | Mei Foo |
| 9A | Lai King | ||
| 9B | Route 7 eastbound to Tseung Kwan ) | ||
| 9C | Kwai Chung | ||
| 9D | Route 3 southbound to Sai Ying Pun | ||
| Tsuen Wan Road | |||
| 10 | Tsing Yi and Kwai Chung | 10 | Tsing Yi and Kwai Chung |
| 11 | Tsing Yi | 11 | Tsing Yi |
| 11A | Texaco Road | ||
| 12 | Tsuen Wan | 12 | Tsuen Wan |
| Tsuen Wan (intersection with Route 9) | |||
