Route 5 (Hong Kong)

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Route 5
Route 5
Route 5 coloured red
Length: 17.9km
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:

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)

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