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The area around the Hong Kong Island entrance of the Cross-Harbour Tunnel in the 1970s; the tunnel was under construction. Prior to the opening of the Cross-Harbour Tunnel , vehicular traffic travelling across the Victoria Harbour relied on ferry services as early as 1933. [ 1 ]
Tai Wai Tunnel Map: 2007: 0.5: N/A: Hong Kong Government / TIML MOM Limited: 8 (Incorporated into toll fee of Eagle's Nest Tunnel & Sha Tin Heights Tunnel) N/A: N/A Nam Wan Tunnel Map: 2009: 1.25: N/A: Hong Kong Government / TIML MOM Limited: Toll-free: N/A: N/A Scenic Hill Tunnel: 2018 1 N/A Hong Kong Government / Transport Infrastructure ...
The Eastern Harbour Crossing (Chinese: 東區海底隧道), abbreviated as "EHC" (Chinese: 東隧), is a combined road-rail tunnel that crosses beneath Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong. Opened on 21 September 1989, it is the second harbour-crossing tunnel built and the longest amongst the three.
It is the earliest of three vehicular harbour crossings in Hong Kong, opened for traffic in 1972. It was constructed under a 30-year private-sector franchise based on a build–operate–transfer model, and the title passed to the Hong Kong government in 1999 upon termination of the franchise. It has become one of the most congested roads in ...
Congestion in the Cross-Harbour Tunnel. The new toll scheme for Hong Kong's cross-harbour tunnel, also known as the "three-tunnel diversion," is a plan proposed by Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam in the 2018 Hong Kong Chief Executive's Policy Address to divert traffic from the Cross Harbour Tunnel, Eastern Harbour Crossing and Western Harbour Crossing.
They connect Hong Kong Island, metro Kowloon and the New Territories via a series of flyovers and tunnels. They pass through the three tunnels crossing Victoria Harbour, and their sequence of numbering follows the order of opening dates of the three tunnels: Route 1: Cross-Harbour Tunnel (opened 1972)
After World War II, the Eastern District of Hong Kong Island developed rapidly. As a result, the major thoroughfare in the area, King's Road, became very congested. [1]To relieve the issue of congestion, the idea of constructing an elevated vehicular corridor in the Eastern District was brought out in 1968, as part of the Hong Kong Long Term Road Study.
The Hong Kong government launched the Second Comprehensive Transport Study in the late 1980s, which said cross-harbour trips would increase greatly – person-trips would increase by 86% from 1.4m to 2.6m, and goods-vehicle-trips by 129% from 34,000 to 78,000 by 2001.