Tim Mei Avenue () is a street in
Admiralty,
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 ...
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The street is built on
land reclaimed as part of the
Central Reclamation Phase II, which was completed in 1997 and reclaimed 5.3 hectares of land at the former
Tamar naval base. The area was subsequently known as the
Tamar site. Tim Mei Avenue connects
Harcourt Road and
Lung Wo Road (龍和道). Buildings along the street include
CITIC Tower and the
Central Government Complex.
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 ...
Public Transport Services and Traffic Arrangements for Tamar
Civic Square
Civic Square, whose access is from Tim Mei Avenue, was conceived as public open space accessible to all. The square was however closed off in July 2014 after protesters opposed to the creation of new towns in certain parts 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 ...
gathered in the square and stormed into the
Legislative Council (LegCo) complex from there.
["How Civic Square has become less than friendly"]
''The Standard'', 29 September 2014 The government erected a fence all around the square for security costing around HK$2 million without consulting LegCo. Since early September, the government reopened the square to the public, daily between 6am and 11pm.
["High security at Tamar square with 3m fence"]
''The Standard'', 11 September 2014
A student-led march in protest against the framework for electoral reform of the election of the chief executive by universal suffrage announced by the NPC Standing Committee to "reclaim" the privatised Civic Square was a trigger for the
Umbrella Revolution
A series of sit-in street protests, often called the Umbrella Revolution and sometimes used interchangeably with Umbrella Movement, or Occupy Movement, occurred in Hong Kong from 26 September to 15 December 2014.
The protests began after th ...
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Admiralty, Hong Kong
Roads on Hong Kong Island
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