List of streets and roads in Hong Kong

Here is a partial list of notable 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 grid like pattern. The roads and highways are generally designed to British standards. Highways generally conform to British motorway standards.

Speed limits on all roads are 50 km/h, unless specified by road signs. Usually, higher speed limits such as 70 km/h and 80 km/h have been raised to facilitate traffic flow along main roads and trunk roads. On most expressways, speed limits have been raised to 80 km/h and 100 km/h due to the smooth geometry and 110 km/h for North Lantau Highway, while some expressways such as Island Eastern Corridor and Tuen Mun Road have been enforced to 70 km/h because of its long existence and/or geometrical constraints. Typically, the highest speed limit in all tunnels and suspension bridges is 80 km/h, while for other roads such as toll plaza areas and slip roads that do not lead to other expressways the speed limits are recommended to be reduced to the default 50 km/h speed limit.

Routes

Hong Kong's Transport Department is responsible for management of road traffic, regulation of public transport services and operation of major transport infrastructures, while Highways Department is responsible for planning, design, construction and maintenance of the public road system.

In 2004, a new strategic route marking system was put in place, with most existing routes renumbered and exits to key places or to another route also numbered. (For example, a journey from Yau Ma Tei to the airport uses Route 3, taking Exit 5 to join Route 8. It is therefore identified as "3-5-8".) Routes 1 to 3 are cross-harbour north-south routes following the order in which the harbour tunnels were opened. Routes 4, 5, 7 and 8 run east-west, numbered from south to north. Route 9 circumscribes the New Territories. Route 10 runs from western New Territories from Route 9 and bends northward towards and passes the border to Shenzhen. However, the new system has caused some confusion to drivers used to relying on destination signs.

The routes are designated as follows:

• Route 1: Aberdeen - Wong Chuk Hang - Aberdeen Tunnel - Causeway Bay - Cross-Harbour Tunnel - Kowloon Tong - Lion Rock Tunnel - Sha Tin (to join Route 9)
• Route 2: Quarry Bay - Eastern Cross-Harbour Tunnel - Kwun Tong Bypass - Tate's Cairn Tunnel - Ma Liu Shui (to join Route 9)
• Route 3: Sai Ying Pun - Western Cross-Harbour Tunnel - West Kowloon Highway - Kwai Chung - Tsing Yi - Cheung Tsing Tunnel - Ting Kau Bridge - Tai Lam Tunnel - Yuen Long (to join Route 9)
• Route 4: Chai Wan - Island Eastern Corridor - Quarry Bay - Causeway Bay - Wan Chai - Central - Sheung Wan - Sai Ying Pun - Kennedy Town
• Route 5: Ngau Tau Kok - Kowloon Bay - Airport Tunnel - Hung Hom - Yau Ma Tei - Lai Chi Kok - Kwai Chung - Tsuen Wan (to join Route 9)
• Route 6: Reserved for future route. Proposed Central Kowloon Route - Proposed Southeast Kowloon T2 Route - Proposed Tseung Kwan O - Lam Tin Tunnel
• Route 7: Tseung Kwan O - Tseung Kwan O Tunnel - Kwun Tong - Wong Tai Sin - Sham Shui Po - Lai Chi Kok - Kwai Chung (to join Route 5)
• Route 8: Chek Lap Kok (Airport) - Tsing Ma Bridge - Tsing Yi - Stonecutters Island - Lai Chi Kok - Sha Tin to join Route 9.
• Route 9: Shing Mun Tunnel - Tai Wai - Sha Tin - Ma Liu Shui - Tai Po - Fanling - Sheung Shui - San Tin - Yuen Long - - Tuen Mun - Sham Tseng - Tsuen Wan
• Route 10: Lam Tei - Shekou, Shenzhen

Highways

There is approximately 145.5 kilometres (90.4 mi) of highways in Hong Kong:

Number and Name	Length (km)	Speed limit (km/h)
Tuen Mun Road	16.2 kilometres (10.1 mi)[1]	70
North Lantau Highway	12.8 kilometres (8.0 mi)	110
Tsing Long Highway	12.5 kilometres (7.8 mi)	80/100
Tolo Highway	11.3 kilometres (7.0 mi)	80/100
Fanling Highway	10.0 kilometres (6.2 mi)	80/100
Yuen Long Highway	10.0 kilometres (6.2 mi)	80
Island Eastern Corridor	8.6 kilometres (5.3 mi)	70
San Tin Highway	7.9 kilometres (4.9 mi)	100
Hong Kong–Shenzhen Western Corridor	5.5 kilometres (3.4 mi)	80
Kong Sham Western Highway	5.4 kilometres (3.4 mi)	80
West Kowloon Highway	5.1 kilometres (3.2 mi)	100
Tate's Cairn Highway	4.2 kilometres (2.6 mi)	80
Sha Lek Highway	4.2 kilometres (2.6 mi)	80
Tsuen Wan Road	4.1 kilometres (2.5 mi)	70
Lantau Link	4.0 kilometres (2.5 mi)	80
Tsing Kwai Highway	3.5 kilometres (2.2 mi)	80
Sha Tin Road	3.4 kilometres (2.1 mi)	80
Kwun Tong Bypass	3.0 kilometres (1.9 mi)	80
Tai Po Road - Sha Tin Section	1.8 kilometres (1.1 mi)[2]	80
Penny's Bay Highway	1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi)	80
Sha Tin Wai Road	1.4 kilometres (0.87 mi)	50
Cheung Tsing Highway	1.2 kilometres (0.75 mi)	80

Tunnels

Tunnels are a critical part of Hong Kong's transport infrastructure, given its mountainous and island topography. The first tunnel linked Kowloon with Shatin, the first of the new towns in the New Territories. Then the first cross-harbour tunnel to Hong Kong Island reduced reliance on ferries. Further construction facilitated traffic flow to the south of Hong Kong island and other parts of the New Territories. Later, as usage increased, additional tunnels became necessary in parallel with existing structures.

• Lion Rock Tunnel (1967)
• Cross Harbour Tunnel (1972)
• Second Lion Rock Tunnel (1978)
• Aberdeen Tunnel (1982, 1983)
• Kai Tak Tunnel (1982)
• Eastern Harbour Crossing (1989)
• Shing Mun Tunnel (1990)
• Tseung Kwan O Tunnel (1990)
• Tate's Cairn Tunnel (1991)
• Western Harbour Crossing (1997)
• Cheung Tsing Tunnel (1997)
• Tai Lam Tunnel (1998)
• Discovery Bay Tunnel (2000)
• Eagle's Nest Tunnel and Sha Tin Heights Tunnel (2008)
• Nam Wan Tunnel (2009)

Bridges

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• Ap Lei Chau Bridge
• Cheung Tsing Bridge
• Lantau Link

• Tsing Ma Bridge (shared with MTR Tung Chung Line/Airport Express) (1997)
• Ma Wan Viaduct (shared with MTR Tung Chung Line/Airport Express) (1997)
• Kap Shui Mun Bridge (shared with MTR Tung Chung Line/Airport Express) (1997)

• Ting Kau Bridge
• Tsing Yi Bridge
• Tsing Tsuen Bridge (Tsing Yi North Bridge)
• Stonecutters Bridge (2009)

Flyovers

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• Canal Road Flyover
• Connaught Road West Flyover
• Tsing Fung Street Flyover
• Sha Tin Rural Committee Road Flyover
• Choi Hung Road-Prince Edward Road Interchange Flyover
• Bonham Road Flyover
• Hill Road Flyover

Viaducts

• Kowloon Bay - Lam Tin Viaduct (MTR Kwun Tong Line)
• Lai King - Kwai Hing Viaduct (MTR Tsuen Wan Line)
• Heng Fa Chuen - Chai Wan Viaduct (MTR Island Line)
• Tsing Yi - Lai King Viaduct/Tsing Lai Bridge (MTR Tung Chung Line & MTR Airport Express)
• Kam Sheung Road - Tuen Mun Viaduct (West Rail Line)
• Sheung Shui - Lok Ma Chau Viaduct (East Rail Line)

Roads, avenues, streets, bazaars, squares, crescents

Hong Kong Island

Kowloon and New Kowloon

Name	Location and length	History and notes	Landmarks	Photo	Coordinates
Cox's Road (覺士道)	In Jordan, between Austin Road and Jordan Road.	Together with the nearby Cox's Path, named after James Cox, who sold mechanical novelties in Canton and was later involved in opium trade. Obliged to leave China, he went into real estate dealing, and owned the leases on a number of the lots along Cox's Road and Cox's Path.[4]	Kowloon Cricket Club		22°18′17″N 114°10′24″E / 22.30461°N 114.17344°E / 22.30461; 114.17344
Tai Wan Road (大環道)	In Tai Wan, Hung Hom. It runs from Ma Tau Wai Road to Dyer Avenue.	Since 2 June 1922, the official Chinese name was 大灣道, but it was mistaken as 大環道 on road signs and people got used to the wrong name even since. On 23 December 2005, the Hong Kong Government announced that the road will be split into two different roads and the new names will be Tai Wan Road (大環道) and Tai Wan Road East (大環道東). The change also reflects the splitting of the new road by Man Yue Street.			22°18′31″N 114°11′21″E / 22.30864°N 114.18927°E / 22.30864; 114.18927

New Territories

Lantau

Name	Location and length	History and notes	Landmarks	Photo	Coordinates
Chung Yan Road (松仁路)	In Tung Chung, near Yat Tung Estate.		North Lantau Hospital
Keung Shan Road (羗(羌)山道)
Lantau Link (青嶼幹線)	Roadway linking Hong Kong International Airport to the urban areas in Hong Kong. 3.5 kilometres (2.2 mi) long.	Officially opened on 27 April 1997. Opened to traffic on 22 May 1997. It carries a railway as well as roads.	Tsing Ma Bridge, Ma Wan Viaduct, Kap Shui Mun Bridge
Ngong Ping Road (昂平路)	From Sham Wat Road to Ngong Ping.		Ngong Ping Village
Sham Wat Road (深屈道)
South Lantau Road (嶼南道)	Connects Mui Wo in the east to Shek Pik in the west. Majority portion of the road is along the southern shore of Lantau Island	Construction started in 1955.[5]	Nam Shan, Pui O, San Shek Wan, Cheung Sha, Tong Fuk, Shui Hau.		22°14′10″N 113°57′01″E / 22.236°N 113.9504°E / 22.236; 113.9504
Tai O Road (大澳道)	The west-most part of the main roads in south Lantau Island. It starts halfway down the side of Keung Shan, near Kwun Yam Monastery, and runs downhill to the fishing town of Tai O.
Tung Chung Road (東涌道)	Connects the north and south coasts of Lantau Island. It meets South Lantau Road at Cheung Sha.

Bus priority

The Transport Department has designated about 22 km of road length as exclusive "bus lanes", out of approximately 2,000 km of accessible roads.

Monitoring major roads

The traffic CAM online provides nearly real-time road conditions for all major road users, as well as facilitating monitoring of traffic. There are about 115 closed circuit cameras located on the routes to provide monitoring of traffic flow. Congestion is heaviest in Kowloon and along the northern shore of Hong Kong Island, where most cameras are located.

Here are select locations around Hong Kong:

• Cross Harbour Tunnel Hong Kong exit
• Aberdeen Tunnel Wanchai entrance
• Cross Harbour Tunnel Kowloon entrance
• Kwai Tsing Interchange
• Tsuen Wan End Road
• Tuen Mun End Road

See also

• Roads in Hong Kong (category)
• Hong Kong Guide- Offering list of streets and roads.

References

External links

• Snapshot of Traffic Condition
• Live webcast of Traffic Condition
• Highways Department
• Strategic Route Numbering System
• Road Traffic Information Service - Offering live videos and images of current traffic conditions in Hong Kong.

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