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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]
Partial air-conditioned service started on 27 February 1995, amongst the first batch of CMB routes to have done so. 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.
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 ...
In the past, the air-conditioned bus routes were numbered as 200's (Kowloon and New Territories) and 500's (Hong Kong Island). However, this identification became void after they phased out all the non-aircon buses; since then, bus routes have used the old numbers.
Patronage decreased after Citybus took over routes 12 and 12M and converted them to air-conditioned routes, since route 3 was still a non air-conditioned route with the same prices. On 2 June 1997, China Motor Bus gave up the route due to low patronage. Citybus was interested in taking over the route, and it did so immediately.
On 13 September 1998 route 13 became a full air-conditioned service. Later NWFB introduced Dennis Trident 10.3m buses (33XX) on the route. After the Star Ferry Pier moved from Edinburgh Place Ferry Pier to the new Central Piers , the Central terminus of the route did not move to the new terminus there; it stayed where it was, only with a change ...
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.