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New Lantao Bus 1-9 10-19 Fully Air-Conditioned Bus Routes 20-29 Ngong Ping 30-39 Tung Chung 3-digit Numbering 1xx Cross-Harbour Tunnel routes Citybus, Kowloon Motor Bus 260 Recreational route in Hong Kong Island. Citybus 3xx Peak-hour only cross-harbour routes (except for 307) and recreational routes in Hong Kong. Citybus, Kowloon Motor Bus 38x
Air-conditioning of the route started on 11 July 1999 and completed in 2000. The route has seen a drop of patronage since the 1990s with Citybus taking over some of the Wah Fu routes and having lower fares than route 4. On 19 December 2004, the route became a circular route, and ceased to serve Hong Kong station and the ferry piers. [1]
The following is a list of current franchised bus routes in Hong Kong, sorted according to bus companies. All current franchised bus routes are operated by air-conditioned buses only and fares are paid through flat fares.
Citybus Limited (Chinese: 城巴有限公司) is a bus company which provides both franchised and non-franchised service in Hong Kong.The franchised route network serves Hong Kong Island, cross-harbour routes (between Hong Kong Island and Kowloon/New Territories), North Lantau (Tung Chung and Hong Kong Disneyland), Hong Kong International Airport, Kowloon, New Territories, Shenzhen Bay Port ...
Route 2 was classified as an urban flat-road route in 1972, with a ticket price the cheapest amongst the then three types of CMB routes. In the same year the first rear-powered bus in Hong Kong, a Daimler "Jumbo" (RXF1, later SF1) was assigned to the route. The Central terminus was changed to Hong Kong-Macau Ferry Pier on 1 September 1982.
The fare at that time was 50 cents, without child fare concession or section fare arrangements. At that time, the main bus fleet on the line was Guy Arab Mk V (LX class). After CMB converted routes 260, 261 and 262 into full air-conditioned services in 1991, the MCW Metrobus coaches used on these routes were transferred to route 13.
Hong Kong is one of the few cities in the world that bus services are not operated or owned by the Government. [2] These are the four franchised bus companies in Hong Kong: [2] Kowloon Motor Bus Company (1933) Limited; Kowloon Motor Bus. Mainly provides service in Kowloon and New Territories, operating about 400 routes with about 3,850 buses.
Route 8 was handed over to NWFB on 1 September 1998 following the end of CMB franchise on Hong Kong Island bus services. Later the Siu Sai Wan terminus was changed to Island Resort . Patronage on the route started to suffer from slow speed after the establishment of express routes 8X in 1996 and later 8P in 1998.