Kwai Chung Road () is a throughway in

Kwai Chung Kwai Chung is an urban area within Tsuen Wan New Town in the New Territories of Hong Kong. Together with Tsing Yi Island, it is part of the Kwai Tsing District District of Hong Kong. It is also part of Tsuen Wan New Town. In 2000, it had a popula ...

of the

New Territories The New Territories is one of the three main regions of Hong Kong, alongside Hong Kong Island and the Kowloon Peninsula. It makes up 86.2% of Hong Kong's territory, and contains around half of the population of Hong Kong. Historically, it ...

in Hong Kong. It is one of the busiest roads in Hong Kong. The Transport Department has classified it as a trunk road. It was built in the 1960s for the two main development projects in Hong Kong, one for the

Tsuen Wan New Town Tsuen Wan New Town is a new town in Hong Kong. It spans Tsuen Wan, Kwai Chung and the eastern part of Tsing Yi Island. Traditionally, the administrative officials of Tsuen Wan managed the area of Tsuen Wan proper, Kwai Chung, Tsing Yi Isla ...

, another for the Kwai Chung Container Port. The road replaces the Castle Peak Road as the main connection between Tsuen Wan and Kowloon. It hosts most public bus routes from Tsuen Wan,

and

Tsing Yi Tsing Yi, sometimes referred to as Tsing Yi Island, is an island in the urban area of Hong Kong, to the northwest of Hong Kong Island and south of Tsuen Wan. With an area of , the island has extended drastically by reclamation along almost al ...

to Kowloon and vice versa. There are about one hundred bus routes using this road.

Route

The road starts from a junction with

Cheung Sha Wan Road Cheung Sha Wan Road () is a main thoroughfare in Kowloon, Hong Kong going in a south-north direction from Mong Kok in the south to Lai Chi Kok in the north. Description It starts in Mong Kok near Boundary Street and at the northern terminus ...

Lai Chi Kok Road Lai Chi Kok Road is a road in western Kowloon, Hong Kong. It links Lai Chi Kok to Mong Kok, via Tai Kok Tsui, Sham Shui Po and Cheung Sha Wan. It starts from a junction with Nathan Road near Pioneer Centre in the south and ends near Mei Foo ...

and

Butterfly Valley Road Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the Order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The ...

Cheung Sha Wan Cheung Sha Wan is an area between Lai Chi Kok and Sham Shui Po in New Kowloon, Hong Kong. It is mainly residential to the north and south, with an industrial area in between. Administratively it is part of Sham Shui Po District, which als ...

, via

Kwai Chung Road Flyover Lai Chi Kok Bridge is a Hong Kong bridge that carries the Kwai Chung Road, part of Route 5, linking Kowloon to Kwai Chung, New Territories. The bridge, once the longest in Hong Kong, spanned Lai Chi Kok Bay, which was later filled in. It ...

in Mei Foo, Lai Chi Kok Bridge,

Chung Kwai Chung Kwai Chung is an urban area within Tsuen Wan, Tsuen Wan New Town in the New Territories of Hong Kong. Together with Tsing Yi, Tsing Yi Island, it is part of the Kwai Tsing District districts of Hong Kong, District of Hong Kong. It is also part of T ...

, and ends at a junction with Castle Peak Road and

Cheung Wing Road Cheung is a Cantonese romanization of several Chinese surnames, including the one written as in Traditional characters and in Simplified characters ( Jyutping: Zoeng1; Pinyin: '' Zhāng''; Wade–Giles: Chang, Vietnamese: Trương), and the one w ...

Sheung Kwai Chung Kwai Chung is an urban area within Tsuen Wan New Town in the New Territories of Hong Kong. Together with Tsing Yi Island, it is part of the Kwai Tsing District District of Hong Kong. It is also part of Tsuen Wan New Town. In 2000, it had a populat ...

. It has served the new town of Kwai Chung on the

reclamation Reclaim, reclaimed, reclaimer, reclaiming or reclamation means "to get something back". It may refer to: * Land reclamation, creating new land from oceans, riverbeds, or lake beds * Dedesertification, reversing of the land degradation in arid ...

Lap Sap Wan Gin Drinkers Bay or Gin Drinker's Bay, also colloquially known as Lap Sap Wan, was a bay in Kwai Chung, Hong Kong. The bay was reclaimed in the 1960s and became Kwai Fong and part of Kwai Hing. At the mouth of the bay stood the island of Pilla ...

, and also the

Kwai Chung Container Terminals Kwai Tsing Container Terminals is the main port facilities in the reclamation along Rambler Channel between Kwai Chung and Tsing Yi Island, Hong Kong. It evolved from four berths of Kwai Chung Container Port () completed in the 1970s. It later ...

. The section south of

Tsuen Wan Road Tsuen Wan Road is a major expressway in Tsuen Wan and Kwai Tsing districts, New Territories, Hong Kong. It forms part of Route 5 of Hong Kong's highway system and runs 4.1 kilometers in the east-west direction from Kwai Chung Road near the Kw ...

is part of Route 5.

History

Before the construction of Kwai Chung Road, the Castle Peak Road was the only road to connect to Kowloon and the western New Territories. In the 1960s, Castle Peak Road was very old and did not meet the needs of the future development plans of the New Territories. The Government of Hong Kong developed the Tsuen Wan New Town and Kwai Chung Container Port. Tsuen Wan New Town consists of Tsuen Wan, Kwai Chung and Tsing Yi. The

Gin Drinkers Bay Gin Drinkers Bay or Gin Drinker's Bay, also colloquially known as Lap Sap Wan, was a bay in Kwai Chung, Hong Kong. The bay was reclaimed in the 1960s and became Kwai Fong and part of Kwai Hing. At the mouth of the bay stood the island of Pil ...

in Kwai Chung was reclaimed completely afterwards. Kwai Chung Road was built along the coastal line of the bay which is inside the new town and close to the container port. In the 1990s, the road was reconstructed during the building of the

Hong Kong International Airport Hong Kong International Airport is Hong Kong's main airport, built on reclaimed land on the island of Chek Lap Kok, Hong Kong. The airport is also referred to as Chek Lap Kok International Airport or ''Chek Lap Kok Airport'', to distinguish ...

. Another elevated highway was built on top of Kwai Chung Road near the container port. The reconstruction eased the traffic congestion of Kwai Chung Road and met the need of expansion of the new town and container port. Construction works commenced in 1993 and completed in February 1997.

Geography

Kwai Chung Road was built along the old coastal line. The southern part is more hilly and the northern is on a small plain. Thus the southern part suffers from landslides during

rainstorm Rain is liquid water in the form of droplets that have condensed from atmospheric water vapor and then become heavy enough to fall under gravity. Rain is a major component of the water cycle and is responsible for depositing most of the fr ...

s occasionally.

Buildings

Buildings are arranged from south to north *

Mei Foo Sun Chuen Mei Foo Sun Chuen or simply Mei Foo is a large private housing estate in Lai Chi Kok, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Mei Foo Sun Chuen was the first large scale private housing estate in Hong Kong and at the time of completion, the 99-tower complex w ...

, the largest private estates in Hong Kong, with 99 residential buildings. * Mariner's Club, a building besides Kwai Chung Container Port *

Lai King station Lai King is an MTR rapid transit station in the suburb of Lai King in the Kwai Tsing District. The station is located above ground on a viaduct and is an interchange for the Tsuen Wan and Tung Chung lines. The Chinese name of the station u ...

, an MTR station. * Kwai Chung Tin Hau Temple, relocated to side of the Road, owing to reclamation of Lap Shap Wan in 1966. The original temple was built before 1828. *

Kwai Chung Police Station Kwai may refer to: * Kwai (app), a Chinese video sharing app, * River Kwai (disambiguation), two rivers in Thailand * Kwai (DC Comics) * KWAI, radio station, See also * Kwaio language The Kwaio language, or Koio, is spoken in the centre of Mala ...

, located at 999 Kwai Chung Road. As the station is very close the road, the

Environmental Protection Department Environmental Protection Department (EPD) is a department of Hong Kong Government concerning the issues of environmental protection in Hong Kong.The EPD is responsible for developing policies covering environmental protection, nature conser ...

has set up an air monitor station to measure the

Air Pollution Index The Air Pollution Index (API; ms, Indeks Pencemaran Udara) is a simple and generalized way to describe the air quality, which is used in Malaysia. It is calculated from several sets of air pollution data and was formerly used in mainland China a ...

. *

Kwai Fong Estate Kwai Fong Estate () is a public housing estate in Kwai Fong, Kwai Chung, New Territories, Hong Kong. It was built in the reclaimed land of Gin Drinkers Bay, later the town centre of Kwai Chung, south of Kwai Hing Estate. Kwai Fong station is na ...

, a public estate built on the reclamation. *

Kwai Hing Estate Kwai Hing Estate () is a public housing estate in Kwai Hing, Kwai Chung, New Territories, Hong Kong. It was built in the valley of Gin Drinkers Bay, later the town centre of Kwai Chung. Kwai Hing station is named after the name of the estate. It ...

, a public estate built on the reclamation.

Traffic

Transport Department 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 cre ...

has recorded over 140 thousand vehicles each day. It is the busiest road between Kowloon and the New Territories.

References

External links

Google Maps of Kwai Chung Road
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