The Sand Martin Bridge (Chinese: 沙燕橋) is one of

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta i ...

's bridges, part of the Sha Tin Rural Committee Road, named after the Shatin Martins, the first

baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding t ...

team from Hong Kong to win a league. The Sand Martin bridge crosses the

Shing Mun River The Shing Mun River or Shing Mun River Channel is a river in Sha Tin, Hong Kong. History The original Shing Mun River began at Needle Hill, and flowed into the former Tide Cove (Sha Tin Hoi), a shallow bay. In the 1970s, Tide Cove was recla ...

, connecting Sha Tin Town Centre with

Sha Tin Wai Sha Tin Wai () is an area in Sha Tin District, New Territories, Hong Kong, named after Sha Tin Wai Village (). Name The name of the Sha Tin area allegedly comes from the fact that British colonial officials mistook the name of Sha Tin Wai villa ...

Construction

The Sand Martin Bridge connects to the Yuen Wo Road to the West and the Tai Chung Kiu Road to the East, connecting Sha Tin Town Centre and Lek Yuen to

. The bridge has a 4-lane dual carriageway with pedestrian walkways and cycling tracks, bounded by aluminum vehicular parapets and pedestrian fences.

Naming

The Sand Martin Bridge is named after the Shatin Martins Little League Team, after their victory in the 1983 Hong Kong Little League Open. The Hong Kong movie ''

Weeds on Fire ''Weeds on Fire'' (; literally "half a step") is a 2016 Hong Kong film adapted from the true story of the Shatin Martins, the first baseball team from Hong Kong to win a league. The film is directed by Steve Chan Chi-fat and stars Liu Kai-chi, ...

'', about the Shatin Martins, featured shots of the Sand Martin bridge.

References

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