KMB Route 211

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AAU11 on Route 211 was right turning from Tsui Chuk Street into Wing Chuk Street
Route information
Terminus	Tsui Chuk Garden ↺ Wong Tai Sin Station ●
via	Pang Ching Court, Tin Ma Court
Distance	5.1km
Travelling time	24mins
Commencement date	10 November 1988
Operational information
Current operator	KMB
Current depot	Kowloon Bay Depot (K)
Main Vehicle	AAU
Fare information
Full fare	$4.6
No. of section fare(s)	1
Service hours
Origin service time	05:30 - 01:10
Headway	2-12mins

The Kowloon Urban Bus Route 211 is operated by Kowloon Motor Bus (KMB). It runs circular between Tsui Chuk Garden and Wong Tai Sin Station, via Pang Ching Court and Tin Ma Court, providing sole bus service connecting to MTR Wong Tai Sin Station for residents of Tsui Chuk Garden and other areas.

This route is one of the most frequent routes in Hong Kong, with a frequency of up to every 2 minutes during peak hours.

History

• 10 November 1988: Route 211 was introduced, running circular between Tsui Chuk Garden and Wong Tai Sin MTR Station.
• 29 October 1990: The section fare from Tsui Chuk Street to Tsui Chuk Garden was introduced.
• 31 March 1991: The section fare was advanced to take effective from Rainbow Primary School and half-fare concession for children was introduced.
• 10 December 2001: The special departure from Wong Tai Sin MTR Station to Tsui Chuk Garden was introduced.
• 16 November 2002: Interchange concessions with various New Territories routes were introduced.
• 21 May 2003: The first bus was advanced by 10 minutes to 05:50.[3]
• 1 July 2006: Interchange concessions with Routes 2F and 3C were introduced.
• 27 June 2015: Estimated Time of Arrival Enquiry System was introduced to this route.
• 22 November 2021: The first bus was advanced by 20 minutes to 05:30.

Historical route information

Details of the past service hours and headways, fares and other route information of this route are set out in the "Historical route information" sub-page of this article.

Service hours and headways

The latest update is on 6/2023, see here for the referenced link

From Tsui Chuk Garden
Service hours	Headways (mins)
Mondays to Fridays
05:30 - 05:54	8
05:54 - 06:00	6
06:00 - 07:00	4
07:00 - 07:51	3
07:51 - 08:14	2/3
08:14 - 08:59	3
08:59 - 09:59	5
09:59 - 11:53	6
11:53 - 12:31	6/7
12:31 - 13:31	4
13:31 - 14:55	3/4
14:55 - 15:40	3
15:40 - 16:36	3/4
16:36 - 17:00	4
17:00 - 17:12	3
17:12 - 17:14	2
17:14 - 18:59	3
18:59 - 19:34	5
19:34 - 20:52	6
20:52 - 21:56	4
21:56 - 21:59	3
21:59 - 22:59	4
22:59 - 23:24	5
23:24 - 23:48	8
23:48 - 23:58	10
23:58 - 01:10	12
Saturdays
05:30 - 05:54	8
05:54 - 06:00	6
06:00 - 06:20	5
06:20 - 07:00	4
07:00 - 07:51	3
07:51 - 08:14	2/3
08:14 - 08:59	3
08:59 - 09:59	5
09:59 - 11:53	6
11:53 - 12:31	6/7
12:31 - 13:31	4
13:31 - 14:55	3/4
14:55 - 15:40	3
15:40 - 16:36	3/4
16:36 - 17:00	4
17:00 - 17:12	3
17:12 - 17:14	2
17:14 - 18:59	3
18:59 - 19:34	5
19:34 - 20:52	6
20:52 - 21:56	4
21:56 - 21:59	3
21:59 - 22:59	4
22:59 - 23:24	5
23:24 - 23:48	6
23:48 - 23:58	10
23:58 - 01:10	12
Sundays and Public Holidays
05:30 - 06:10	10
06:10 - 07:10	5
07:10 - 07:42	4
07:42 - 08:03	3/4
08:03 - 08:42	3
08:42 - 09:28	3/4
09:28 - 10:48	4
10:48 - 11:08	5
11:08 - 12:00	4
12:00 - 18:07	3/4
18:07 - 21:20	4/5
21:20 - 21:32	3
21:32 - 21:48	4
21:48 - 22:00	3
22:00 - 23:00	4
23:00 - 23:48	6
23:48 - 23:58	10
23:58 - 01:10	12

Subject to passenger demand, the following special departures may be operated.

1. Trips between 06:30 - 09:30 on weekdays starting service from Block 4, Tsui Chuk Garden or Block 1, Tsui Chuk Garden .
2. Daily trips starting service from Wong Tai Sin Station.

This route provides Estimated Time of Arrival enquiry Service.

Fares

Journey/Boarding stop	Air-conditioned Fare
Full Fare	$4.6
Section fare (to Tsui Chuk Garden)
From Rainbow Primary School	$2.9

Fare Remarks

Half-fare for children aged below 12 and senior citizens aged 65 or above; the remainder of the fare after half-fare will be counted as 10 cents. Elderly persons aged 65 or above using Senior Octopus Cards or Personalised Octopus cards, Hong Kong residents aged 60 to 64 using JoyYou Card, and eligible persons with disabilities using Personalised Octopus cards with "Persons with Disabilities Status" can enjoy a flat fare of $2.0 per journey under the $2 Concessionary Fare. If the concessionary fare for eligible persons with disabilities aged below 12 and senior citizens aged 65 or above is less than $2.0 after a 50% discount from the regular fare, the beneficiary is only required to pay the original concessionary fare; if the original full fare for Hong Kong residents aged 60 to 64 or eligible persons with disabilities is already less than $2.0, the beneficiary is also only required to pay the original full fare. Passengers are required to tender exact fare by cash or by Octopus card when boarding. No exact change will be given. Passengers can also pay their fares through a variety of electronic payment tools (e-payment system), including using contactless VISA, JCB Card, MasterCard, UnionPay, American Express, Discover Card, Diners Club International Credit Card, UnionPay Credit Card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Samsung Pay, AlipayHK "EasyGo" and UnionPay "QuickPass", BoC Pay "Ride Code" and WeChat Pay HK or WeChat "Ride Code". Passengers using this payment method are not eligible for the interchange concessions with non-KMB/LWB routes, nor are they eligible for the "Public Transport Fare Subsidy Scheme" and "Public Transport Fare Concession Scheme for the Elderly and Eligible Persons with Disabilities". This route has no section fares.

Bus-Bus Interchange Concessions

LWB A Routes and KMB Interchange Concessions

LWB Airport Routes, AsiaWorld-Expo Special Routes and KMB Interchange Concession Scheme
1st leg	Direction	2nd leg	Direction	Discount for 2nd leg	Time limit
X33, X36, X40, X43, X47	To Urban	KMB solely-operated routes	Unlimited	Positive difference between the fare payable for the 2nd leg minus the fare paid for the 1st leg Free if the difference is in negative number	150mins
A30, A31, A32, A33, A33X, A34, A36, A37, A38, A41, A41P, A42, A43, A43P *, A46, A47X					120mins
KMB Solely-operated routes	Any	A30, A31, A32, A33, A33X, A34, A36, A37, A38, A41, A41P, A42, A43, A43P *, A46, A47X	to Airport
Note: Passengers are required to use the same Octopus card/credit card or the same mobile payment tool account (KMB/LWB "e-payment system") to enjoy the interchange discount. Passengers can enjoy the above interchange discount at any bus stop where they can connect to a second route. KMB journeys are not applicable to tourist routes (i.e. R-tail routes), unconventional special routes, racecourse routes and MTR Feeder Bus routes. Passengers heading towards the urban area will not be able to enjoy the "Inter-route Interchange Discount" on the KMB route immediately after interchange after enjoying this interchange discount. Airport-bound passengers who enjoy the "KMB Inter-route Transfer Concession" between the first and second journeys may still enjoy the interchange discount on the third immediately following the LWB route A at $6.0 or the second KMB route minus the concession fare, whichever is lower; if the second KMB route is a free interchange (including free journeys with KMB Monthly Pass) or the first two journeys are both If the second KMB route is a free interchange (including free journeys with KMB Monthly Pass) or the first two journeys are both KMB routes with interchange concessions, the interchange concession will not be offered. Routes R8, S64 series, Long Win Bus Lantau Link BBI, Tuen Mun Chek Lap Kok Tunnel bus routes and all interchange schemes with other companies cannot be used consecutively with this interchange concession. 50% discount for children under 12 years old; for passengers benefiting from the Public Transport Fare Concession Scheme for the Elderly and Eligible Persons with Disabilities when interchanging from LWB A Routes to KMB, the KMB one-way fare is the lower of the discounted concessionary fare (or 50% discount in the case of elderly or eligible persons with disabilities under 12 years old) and $2.0, therefore some interchange combinations may not be available. When interchanging from KMB to LWB A Routes, passengers may get back the actual fare paid for the first journey (i.e. the lower of the original fare (50% discount for elderly or eligible persons with disabilities under 12 years old) and $2.0). ＊: For interchanging from KMB Route B1 (Tin Tsz direction) to LWB Route A43P ( Airport direction), the actual fare paid for the first journey will be refunded for the next journey, except that the interchange concession cannot be enjoyed for the first journey of Route B1, otherwise, only the normal (i.e. maximum $6.0) interchange concession will be offered; for interchange from LWB Route A43P (Luen Wo Hui direction) to KMB Route B1 (Lok Ma Chau direction), passengers will be offered a free interchange concession for the second journey, but no interchange discount will be offered for the first journey of route A43P and no other interchange concession will be offered for route B1 thereafter. This special concession is not applicable to other LWB A routes (including Routes A36, A37 and A43). Edit

Bus deployments

Due to the shallow space of the Tsui Chuk Garden Bus Terminus and the request of the local community members, vehicles longer than 10 metres are not allowed to enter, and this route can only be operated by single-decker buses of 10.6 metres or less which have been issued with a Prohibited Zone Permit.

This route, together with Route 211A, is served by a total of 9 Enviro200 10.4m Double-door version (AAU) single-decker buses. Occassionally, Scania K230UB 10.6m (ASB) and single-door version Enviro200 Dart 10.5m (AAS) may appear on this route as a special sight.

List of buses on Routes 211/211A
Fleet no.	Plate	Depot
AAU4	PV4758	Kowloon Bay Depot (K)
AAU5	PV5625
AAU9	PW6471
AAU12	PX3045
AAU15	PX8640
AAU27	PZ7537
AAU28	PZ9554
AAU29	RA4045
AAU30	RA4107

The above list of scheduled buses are as of April 2021, forwarded from hk2007.buscess website (Chinese only). The above buses might not be listed according to running orders.
The related content is for reference only and will be updated according to fleet changes (check update list). To check scheduled bus changes, refer to detailed information on hk2007.buscess website.2421

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Bus deployment evolution history

Bus deployment evolution history of KMB Route 211

At the beginning of the operation of Route 211, single-deck air-conditioned buses were used on all routes, with Toyota Coaster (AT) as the main vehicle. In the 1990s, Template:Klfn and Duple Metsec-bodied Dennis Darts (AA) were deployed. As the Mitsubishi MK (AM) air-conditioned buses had to retire due to old age and there was a shortage of short-bodied single-deck air-conditioned buses in the KMB fleet, KMB purchased 10 Dennis Dart 10.7-metre air-conditioned single-decker buses with Plaxton Pointer body from New World First Bus (NWFB) in 2003 (AA61-AA70, former NWFB fleet no. 20XX) to serve Route 211. At that time, all the nine scheduled buses for this route were second-hand Dennis Darts from the same batch, of which only AA62 (later replaced by AA63) was not in service on this route. On 16 January 2013, KMB sent the successor of the Dennis darts, Enviro200 Dart (AAU15/PX8640), to test the road surface of Tsui Chuk Garden, but the test was a failure. On 22 April of the same year, the same bus was deployed to replace the three Dennis Darts on Route 211 together with two other buses of the same model, and since March 2016, the entire route has been operated by the same model.

Routing

The distance of this route is approx. 5.1km, and the journey time is approximately 24mins. (The average speed is 12.8km/h.)

Via: Tsui Chuk Street, Wing Chuk Street, Chuk Yuen Road, Ma Chai Hang Road, Lung Cheung Road, Po Kong Village Road, Fung Tak Road, Shatin Pass Road, Wong Tai Sin Road, Ma Chai Hang Road, Chuk Yuen Road, Wing Chuk Street and Tsui Chuk Street

Kowloon Motor Bus Route 211 (Tsui Chuk Garden ↺ Wong Tai Sin Station)
No.	Area	Road	Bus stop name	Remarks
1	Chuk Yuen		Tsui Chuk Garden
2		Tsui Chuk Street	Block 4 Tsui Chuk Garden
3			Block 1 Tsui Chuk Garden
4			Pang Ching Court
5		Chuk Yuen Road	Rainbow Primary School
6		Ma Chai Hang Road	Ma Chai Hang Recreation Ground
7	Wong Tai Sin	Lung Cheung Road	Wong Tai Sin BBI - Wong Tai Sin Temple (B1)	Circular route return point Buses may stop here for a while and will resume journey after change of bus captains
8	Chuk Yuen	Fung Tak Road	Fung Tak Park
9			Wong Tai Sin Fire Station
10		Wong Tai Sin Road	Wong Tai Sin Temple
11			Lung Cheung Government Secondary School
12		Ma Chai Hang Road	Tin Wang Court
13		Chuk Yuen Road	Rainbow Primary School	Section fare begins here
14		Tsui Chuk Street	Pang Ching Court
15			Tsui Chuk Shopping Centre
16			Block 5 Tsui Chuk Garden
17			Tsui Chuk Garden

Ridership

According to District Council documents, the ridership of this route is as follows:

• 2017: The occupancy rate during the morning peak hours is 80%.
• 2024: The occupancy rate in the busiest half hour on weekdays ranges from 71% to 88%, while the occupancy rate during the busiest half hour on Sundays ranges from 57% to 67%.

Related incidents

Fire accidents

• 8 July 2016: around 4 p.m., the rear of an Enviro200 Dart (AAU4/PV4758) towards Tsui Chuk Garden suddenly caught fire while arriving at Pang Ching Court. The rear of the bus was blackened after the incident, but no one was injured.

Internet incidents

This route is one of the heated topics among bus fans, some in the bus fans discussion board of "discuss.com.hk" forum even had different opinions on this route, with some of them even contain hegemonic ideas. Many netizens who support this route are hence called "King of Tsui Chuk" (翠竹大帝).

Gallery

Purchased second-hand Dennis Dart (AA) buses from NWFB was once the main vehicle of Route 211

A bus on Route 211 was entering Wong Tai Sin Road

Scania K230UB (ASB) also often operates on Route 211

More pictures, photos and related information about this article are available in the following Gallery Page:

KMB Route 211 (Edit)

Related articles

• KMB Route 211A
• Residents' Bus Route KR21

External links

• KMB Official Route Information: 211 (Timetable approved by Transport Department)