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Protesters set fire to toll booths of Hong Kong’s Cross-Harbour Tunnel on the evening of November 14 and early morning of November 15.This footage shows flames blazing from booths on the Kowloon ...
The Cross-Harbour Tunnel (abbreviated CHT or XHT) is the first tunnel in Hong Kong built underwater. It consists of two steel road tunnels each with two lanes constructed using the single shell immersed tube method. [1] It is the earliest of three vehicular harbour crossings in Hong Kong, opened for traffic in 1972.
Nam Wan Tunnel is a tunnel in Hong Kong opened to traffic on 20 December 2009, [1] along with the West Tsing Yi Viaduct, East Tsing Yi Viaduct and Stonecutters Bridge. The road tunnel, which forms an important part of the HK$ 15 billion Route 8 , linking Tsing Yi and Sha Tin in the city, began construction since 2003 and was completed in 2007.
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 ]
The Tai Lam Tunnel was the location of a major explosion on 14 February 2007. At 09:15 am, a West Rail SP1900 passenger train (D305/306) broke down when one of the transformers (numbered P306) mounted on the train roof exploded. It is suspected that the overheated transformer caused its insulating oil to vaporise, thus causing the explosion.
The Central–Wan Chai Bypass is a 4-kilometre (2.5 mi) trunk road running between Sheung Wan and Fortress Hill on Hong Kong Island.The original design consists of a 2.3 km dual three-lane tunnel running under new reclamation areas provided by the Central and Wan Chai Reclamation project, [1] and also connections to Connaught Road West flyover and Island Eastern Corridor.
The construction of Lion Rock Tunnel started in January 1962. [1] The tunnel was opened on 14 November 1967, as a 1.43 km dual-one single bore tunnel.This tunnel is often described as a by-product of the Plover Cove Scheme, which was a project to build a water supply tunnel through the range of hills separating New Kowloon and the rest of the New Territories. [2]
The tunnel consists of a pair of tubes of about 7 metres diameter each, 1.26 km long. The southern tube carries west-bound traffic from Kowloon Bay to Ma Tau Kok. A point of interest is that the eastbound tunnel branches off onto Sung Wong Toi Road. [7] It is the only major vehicular tunnel in Hong Kong built entirely by the cut-and-cover ...