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This text is about the franchised bus and green minibus (GMB) terminus located at Festival Walk:
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The Festival Walk Public Transport Interchange (又一城公共運輸交匯處, Citybus Location Code YYT) is located at the ground floor of Festival Walk, 80 Tat Chee Avenue, Yau Yat Chuen, Sham Shui Po District[1], Kowloon. It is a covered bus terminus and green minibus terminus with 10 sets of parallel platforms and lay-bys.
Currently all bus companies name this stop as "Festival Walk" (又一城); when the Citybus Stop Announcement System announces this stop, the screen displays "
Festival Walk, Kowloon Tong Station 
" (又一城、九龍塘站 ).
The designated pick-up/drop-off point for MTR Emergency Bus at Kowloon Tong Station is located at this stop in case of MTR train service disruptions. The Festival Walk Resident Bus Terminus is located at the private car and taxi drop-off/pick-up area in the shopping centre and is not connected to this stop.
History[]
Tat Chee Avenue Public Transport Terminus[]
Benefiting from the construction of the City Polytechnic of Hong Kong's permanent campus in Kowloon Tong, the Tat Chee Avenue Public Transport Terminus was built on an open site to the east of the campus, and opened on 1 March 1989[2] with two dual lane lay-bys and one single lane lay-by for use as a bus terminus, as well as a green minibus stand. The following day, GMB route 2 and KMB Route 2C were both relocated to the stop, which was initially called "Tat Chee Avenue" by KMB following the government, and from 1 December 1992 was renamed "Yau Yat Chuen".
The Tat Chee Avenue terminus was closed on the fourth anniversary of its opening on 1 March 1993[3] to allow for the development of commercial projects in-situ. The bus and minibus routes were moved one day earlier, on 28 February, to the lay-by next to the main entrance of the City Polytechnic of Hong Kong at Tat Chee Avenue Northbound, to serve as a temporary bus terminus.
Festival Walk Public Transport Terminus[]
Festival Walk (又一城), situated in Sham Shui Po District and opened in 1998, is located in the heart of the traditional Kowloon Tong luxury residential area and enjoys extremely convenient transport facilities. It is connected to the MTR Kowloon Tong Station, with a public transport interchange at the base, which was opened on 11 December, and the bus routes using the Tat Chee Avenue Temporary Terminus were relocated to it on 13 December. The Government calls this new public transport interchange the Festival Walk Public Transport Terminus (又一城公共交通總站)[4][5], while KMB continues to use the Yau Yat Chuen Bus Terminus (又一村巴士總站), with the regulator working at the permanent regulator's room next to the dual lane lay-by, at the easternmost part of the interchange.
Terminus stop sign of Route 796B and regulator's room
Route 796B, which was one of the NWFB Tseung Kwan O Routes in Kowloon, is the first NWFB route with Festival Walk as its terminus and a kiosk-type regulator's room, commenced service on 17 September 2001; however, the route competed with the railways and the patronage was persistently low for many years. The route was finally cancelled on 10 October 2010, with the regulator's room removed. On 5 July the following year, Route 702, one of the NWFB West Kowloon Routes, was extended to this terminus to replace GMB Routes 10A and 10M, which ceased operation two days later due to heavy losses. Initially, NWFB named this stop Yau Yat Chuen (Festival Walk), and Route 702 captains were required to call the regulator of Hoi Lai Estate to report for duty upon arrival at this stop.[6]
KMB's two routes 2C and 203, which had been serving Kowloon Tong residents for many years, ceased service on 18 January 2014, and were replaced by two new routes 203C and 203S on the same day, which bypassed the bus stop, signifying that no more regular franchised bus routes would terminate at this stop, but KMB's staff canteen would still be in operation for a certain period of time before closing down. "Yau Yat Chuen Bus Terminus" was also officially renamed "Festival Walk" on 5 May of the same year.
On 24 June 2018, Citybus Route 22 commenced service with this stop being its terminus[7], marking the return of franchised buses to use this terminus after a gap of four years. Starting from that date, Citybus and NWFB changed the name of this stop to "Festival Walk", in line with the naming of KMB, while the name of the departure/arrival point remained unchanged, i.e. "Yau Yat Chuen (Festival Walk)", until late July 2018, when it was changed to the current "Kowloon Tong (Festival Walk)".
As for green minibuses (GMBs), GMB Route 85 which ran to and from The Latitude in San Po Kong commenced service on 28 August 2011[8] and ceased operation on 1 March 2018 due to persistently low patronage, and was replaced by GMB Route 25B on the same day; however, the Kowloon Tong terminus of the route is located at Suffolk Road, and the return journey had been diverted to the southern part of Kowloon Tong and Kowloon City, instead of Lok Fu and Wong Tai Sin areas.
Route information[]
Franchised buses[]
Terminating routes[]
| List of Franchised Bus Routes terminating at Kowloon Tong (Festival Walk) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operator | Route No. | Origin | Destination | Service Type |
| Citybus | 22 | Kowloon Tong (Festival Walk) | Kai Tak Cruise Terminal | Service daily ● |
| Template:CTB 702 doesn't exist! | ||||
Intermediate stop routes[]
| List of Franchised Bus Routes observing "Festival Walk" stop | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operator | Route No. | Origin | Destination | Service Type |
| KMB | 203C | Sham Shui Po (Tai Hang Tung) | Tsim Sha Tsui East (Mody Road) | Service daily, observes this stop in both directions ● |
| Tsim Sha Tsui East (Mody Road) | Sham Shui Po (Tai Hang Tung) | |||
| KMB | 203S | Chak On | Tsim Sha Tsui East (Mody Road) (One-way) |
Service Mondays to Saturdays during Morning Peak Hours ● |
Green minibuses[]
| List of Green Minibus (GMB) Routes terminating at Festival Walk | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operator | Route No. | Origin | Destination | Service Type |
| Kellis | 2 | Festival Walk | Whampoa Garden | Service daily, Via Ma Tau Wai Road ● |
| Kellis | 2A | Festival Walk | Whampoa Garden | Service daily, via Hung Hom Road ● |
| Template:KNGMB 41A doesn't exist! | ||||
| Template:KNGMB 41M doesn't exist! | ||||
| Win Access Investment | 72 | Festival Walk | Grandview Garden | Service daily ● |
| Main River Transportation | 73 | Festival Walk | Tsz Wan Shan Centre | Service daily ● |
| Main River Transportation | 73 Special Trips |
Festival Walk | Tsz Wan Shan (South) (Circular) |
Service Mondays to Fridays during Morning Peak Hours, Not via Tsz Wan Shan Centre ● |
Previously served routes[]
The termini of the following routes are based on the date of relocation. For the current termini, please refer to the relevant route articles.
| List of Bus Routes once terminating at Festival Walk | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operator | Route No. | Destination at that time | Terminus changed to | Date no longer using this terminus |
| KMB | 2C | ↺ Tsim Sha Tsui | Route discontinued | 18 January 2014 |
| KMB | 203 | ↺ Tsim Sha Tsui East | Route discontinued | 18 January 2014 |
| NWFB | 702 | Hoi Lai Estate | Converted to circular operation | 20 August 2011 |
| NWFB | 796B | Tiu Keng Leng Station | Route discontinued | 10 October 2010 |
| KMB | M2 | Kowloon MTR Station | Route discontinued | 1 November 1998 |
| List of Green Minibus (GMB) Routes once terminating at Festival Walk | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operator | Route No. | Destination at that time | Terminus changed to | Date no longer using this terminus |
| Chit Fai Motors | 2S | Shing Tak Street/Ma Tau Wai Estate | Route discontinued | 10 April 2020 |
| Tin Shing Motors | 10A | Nam Cheong Estate | Route discontinued | 7 July 2011 |
| Tin Shing Motors | 10M | Nam Cheong Estate | Route discontinued | 7 July 2011 |
| Fine Luck | 85 | San Po Kong (The Latitude) | Route discontinued | 1 March 2018 |
Stop layout[]
Please note that the stop may be temporarily or permanently altered at any time due to other factors (e.g. road works).
| Lay-by allocation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Width | Route(s) | Stop pole no. |
| 1 | Dual lane | 203C (to Tsim Sha Tsui East (Mody Road)), 203S[9] | YA03-T-1000-0 |
| 2 | Single lane | Vacant[10] | N/A |
| 3 | Single lane | 203C (to Tai Hang Tung)[11] | YA03-T-1050-0 |
| 4 | Single lane | 702[12] | 3065A |
| 5 | Single lane | 22[13] | 3065B |
| 6 | Single lane | Vacant[14] | N/A |
| 7 | Single lane | GMB 73 | N/A |
| 8 | Single lane | GMB 72 | N/A |
| 9 | Single lane | GMB 41A, 41M | N/A |
| 10 | Dual lane | GMB 2, 2A | N/A |
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Gallery[]
Related articles[]
- Festival Walk Carpark
- Hong Kong Productivity Council
- Kowloon Tong (Suffolk Road) Public Transport Interchange
Notes and References[]
- ↑ Festival Walk is located to the west of the East Rail Line} tracks and thus it belongs to Sham Shui Po District.
- ↑ G.N. 622, Hong Kong Government Gazette, Volume 131, Issue 08, 24 February 1989
- ↑ G.N. 623, Hong Kong Government Gazette, Vol. 135, No. 08, 26 February 1993
- ↑ G.N. 6106: "Transport Department: Road Traffic (Traffic Control) Regulations (Cap. 374) - Tat Chee Avenue Festival Walk Public Transport Terminus", HKSAR Government Gazette, Volume 2, Issue 50, 11 December 1998
- ↑ Latest arrangements for public transport terminus in Festival Walk (with map), Government Press Release, 17 May 2007.
- ↑ 西九龍巴士線702新走線/班次/收費(6月29日再次更新路線) (New routing, headways and fares of West Kowloon bus route 702 (route updated on 29 June)), hkitalk.net
- ↑ Citybus Limited, "Citybus Launches Urban Kowloon Route 22" [Media Information], 21 June 2018.
- ↑ Transport Department HKSARG, "Introduction of Kowloon Public Light Bus (Scheduled) Service Route No. 85 San Po Kong (The Latitude) - Festival Walk Public Transport Terminus" [Traffic Advice], 26 August 2011.
- ↑ Former stop location of KMB Route 203.
- ↑ Once used for the parking of buses on KMB Route 2C.
- ↑ Former stop location of KMB Route 2C.
- ↑ Former stop location of NWFB Route 796B.
- ↑ Former stop location of GMB Route 85.
- ↑ Former stop location of GMB Routes 10A and 10M.
External links[]
- KMB website: Photo of the bus stop (No. YA03-T-1000-0)(Note: stop view may not be updated)
- Citybus website: Photo of the bus stop 3065 (Note: The site view may not be updated)
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