Paterson Street () is a street in
Causeway Bay,
Hong Kong Island
Hong Kong Island is an Islands and peninsulas of Hong Kong, island in the southern part of Hong Kong. Known colloquially and on road signs simply as Hong Kong, the island has a population of 1,289,500 and its population density is 16,390/km ...
, Hong Kong. It starts north at
Victoria Park Road
Victoria Park Road () is a road in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong. Its western section between Gloucester Road and Island Eastern Corridor before the completion of Central–Wan Chai Bypass, served as a portion of Route 4. It starts at the junction ...
, crosses Kingston Street and
Great George Street and ends at
Yee Wo Street to the south.
The street was named after William Paterson, a partner of
Jardine Matheson & Co
Jardine Matheson Holdings Limited (also known as Jardines) is a Hong Kong-based Bermuda-domiciled British multinational conglomerate. It has a primary listing on the London Stock Exchange and secondary listings on the Singapore Exchange and ...
., the company which owned most parts of today's Causeway Bay in the 19th century. The first
McDonald's branch in Hong Kong was opened on 8 January 1975 in Hang Lung Centre, on Paterson Street.
Illegal parking and waiting is a persistent problem along Paterson Street. In the 1990s, the southern portion of Paterson Street, between Great George Street and Yee Wo Street, was restricted to buses, and then in July 2000, converted to a pedestrian street.
See also
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List of streets and roads in Hong Kong
The following are incomplete lists of notable expressways, tunnels, bridges, roads, avenues, streets, crescents, Town square, squares and bazaars in Hong Kong.
Many roads on the Hong Kong Island conform to the contours of the hill landscape. S ...
References
Causeway Bay
Roads on Hong Kong Island
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