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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 ]
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.
Airport Tunnel: 2018 0.6 N/A Hong Kong Government / Transport Infrastructure Management Limited Toll-free 401 N/A Lung Shan Tunnel: 2019 4.8 N/A Hong Kong Government / Transport Infrastructure Management Limited Toll-free 16,728 N/A Cheung Shan Tunnel: 2019 0.9 N/A Hong Kong Government / Transport Infrastructure Management Limited Toll-free ...
The excavation of the tunnel began in November 2002. The project was undertaken by the Civil Engineering and Development Department (CEDD) in Hong Kong. The project included: Site formation, drainage, geotechnical and landscape works for the toll plaza (toll plaza completed in 2004) 0.9 km of three-lane twin-bore tunnel underneath Sha Tin Heights
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.
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 technique. [2] Many major express bus routes of Kowloon Motor Bus and New World First Bus between Kowloon and the eastern end of New Kowloon travel through the Kai Tak ...
Initially, the Government of Hong Kong had plans to build a bridge across the eastern portion of the harbour but due to fears of the bridge blocking planes landing at Kai Tak airport, this was shelved in favour of a tunnel. [3] In 1986, the New Hong Kong Tunnel Company Limited won the bidding for this contract, and was given the right to run ...
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.