Eternal Honest Limited (誠時有限公司) is a green minibus operator mainly serving in Anderson Road Development Area, Kwun Tong District, and it currently operates 3 Kowloon GMB routes.
Eternal Honest is the first green minibus operator providing door extenders and retractors on its green minibus fleet in Hong Kong.
History[]
Eternal Honest operates a group of two new GMB routes tendered by the government on 3 July 2015[1] which are Route 89A came into service on 29 May 2016 and Route 89B routes came into service on 21 August 2016.
Responding to the occupation of On Tat Estate and On Tai Estate on Anderson Road and passenger demand, Eternal Honest has substituted a total of three 19-seat minibuses and introduced two additional 16-seat minibuses since the 2nd quarter of this year to improve the quality of the services to demand the passengers[2]. In addition, route 89A was fully split in 6 May 2018 to serve On Tai Estate and On Tat Estate with the new Route 89C respectively.
Minibus routes[]
| Routes operated by Eternal Honest | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Route No. | Termini | Remark | |
| 89A | On Tai Estate ↔ Ngau Tau Kok ● | Service daily | |
| 89B | On Tai Estate ↔ Kowloon Bay (Zero Carbon Building) ● | Service daily | |
| 89C | On Tat Estate ↔ Ngau Tau Kok ● | Service daily | |
Minibus fleets[]
Current Eternal Honest's Kowloon Routes 89A, 89B and 89C have a total of 16 Toyota Coaster LPG-minibuses, including 9 16-seater minibuses and 7 19-seater minibuses.
| List of Eternal Honest minibuses | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plate no. | Type code [Remark 1] | Seat(s) | Destination sign config. | Route | Remarks |
| DH1268 | 2016 6LL | 19-seater Vegaset | Rollsign | 89B | Entered service in November 2016 Late originally belonged to a 5LS2 on 94 Licensed Mini-Bus' New Territories Routes 94 series and a 2015 6LS on this route |
| EU9163 | 89C | Plate originally belonged to a 1991 2nd generation on Min Kee Motors' New Territories Routes 401/402S a 2005 5LS2 on New Territories Route 308M | |||
| HA1227 | 2017 6LL | 89A | Former vehicle on Easy Well Industrial's New Territories Route 66K Plate originally belonged to a 1998 4th generation on PLB Route 71 and the routes under Hon Wah Maxicab Joined in May 2018 Shifted once to Crown Step Investment's New Territories Route 84 | ||
| HT5256 | 2016 6LS | 16-seater original 3-point harness seat | Plate originally belonged to a 1998 3rd generation on PLB Wong Jor Route Shifted once to Min Kee Motors'New Territories Route 308M and Wai Ching Industrial's New Territories Routes 29/806 series during February and May or December 2020 respectively | ||
| HZ3381 | 2017 7LL | 19-seater Vegaset | Enterprises EDS | 89C | Former vehicle on Smart Champion Investments' Kowloon Routes 69/69A Plate originally belonged to a 1999 4th generation on Min Kee Motors' New Territories Routes 401/402S Joined in July 2018 |
| JH1918 | |||||
| JX156 | Transfull EDS[Remark 2] | Former vehicle on Smart Champion Investment's Kowloon Route 69A Plate originally belonged to a 2000 4th generation on Min Kee Motors' New Territories Routes 401/402S Joined in June 2018 | |||
| NS2889 | 2016 6LS | 16-seater original 3-point harness seat | Rollsign | 89B | Original plate no. BJ1122 and VE3569, plate no. changed in January 2018 and March 2022 Current plate no. originally belonged to a 2003 5LS on routes under Ho King Maxicab[Remark 3] |
| TP9312 | 2015 6LS | 16-seater original 3-point harness seat | 89A | ||
| TR2102 | 89B | Once equipped with Telescopic pedal, it currently demolished | |||
| TV2289 | 89A | ||||
| TZ7169 | Spare | ||||
| UB1819 | 2016 6LS | 89B | |||
| UB4529 | 89A | ||||
| UD8920 | 2016 6LL | 19-seater Vegaset | 89C | ||
| WR4711 | 2013 6LS | 16-seater Hugh adopt | 89B | Original plate no. SG6854 Originally was a vehicle on PLB Cheung Tsuen Route | |
| List of Eternal Honest minibuses | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plate No. | Type No. | Seat No. | Retirement/withdrawal date | Whereabouts | Substituted vehicle(s) |
| DH1268 | 2015 6LS | 16 | November 2016 | Unknown | 2016 6LL of the same plate |
| DL5190 | 2005 5LS2 | Not later than May 2018 | Transferred to Min Kee Motors' New Territories Routes 401/402S | ||
| FW 71 | 2010 6LS | Not later than 2017 | Transferred to Foo Woo Public Light Bus' New Territories Route 71 | ||
| GG213 | 5LS | Unknown | Transferred to PLB Yuen Jor Route Plate is now applied to a 2020 7LL on Wai Ching Industrial's New Territories Routes 29/806 series |
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| HV7988 | 2010 6LS | Transferred to Easy Well Induatrial's New Territories Routes 65A/65S/67K | |||
| HX2046 | 1998 4th gemeration | 2016 | Retired | UD8920 (2016 6LL) | |
| LB2113[Remark 4] | 2007 5DL | 19 | October 2020 | Transferred to Min Kee Motors' New Territories Route 308M | |
| LL7966 | 2010 6DS | 16 | March 2021 | Transferred to Min Kee Motors' New Territories Route 308M Plate is now applied to a 2005 5LS2 on Min Kee Motors' New Territories Routes 401/402S[Remark 5] |
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| PB1499 | 2009 6LS | Unknown | Transferred to the routes under Ho King Maxicab | ||
| RD953 | 2011 6LS | August 2023 | Transferred to Min Kee Motors' New Territories Route 308M | ||
| SA 89[Remark 6] | 5DL | March 2020 | Retired | LB2113 (2007 5DL) | |
| TG7258 | 2016 6LS | Unknown | Transferred to Smart Champion Investment's Kowloon Route 69A | ||
| TN869 | 2010 6LS | Transferred to Smart Champion Investment's Kowloon Routes 69/69A | |||
The information may not be complete and accurate, to be updated and modified by those who are willing to do so.
This section was last updated on 12/2024202412
Gallery[]
Remarks[]
- ↑ The group of codes (if any) placed after the model name Toyota Coaster is used only by transport enthusiasts, and is not referred to as such by anyone else (including insiders).
- ↑ This minibus once equipped with Patent Enterprises EDS, the EDS was changed aftered joined Eternal Honest.
- ↑ The original plate no. of the 5LS was KY2024, plate no. changed in June 2019.
- ↑ Original plate no. MS6199, was originally belonged to a 2nd generation on PLB Tsz Mong Route.
- ↑ Original plate no. of the 5LS2 was DL5190.
- ↑ Original5plate no. EV3946
Related articles[]
References[]
- ↑ 九龍及新界的公共小巴（專線）路線組別, G.N. 4834, Vol. 19, No. 27, 2015.
- ↑ 有關安達臣道安達邨及安泰邨的交通配套事宜進度報告 (Progress report of transport at On Tat Estate and On Tai Estate, Anderson Road), Paper No. 39/2018 of the Traffic and Transport Committee of the Kwun Tong District Council, 29 November 2018