The New Territories Bus Route 94 is operated by Kowloon Motor Bus. It runs between Sai Kung and Wong Shek Pier, via Tai Mong Tsai, Pak Tam Chung and Pak Tam Au, which is currently the sole KMB route that does not pass through any traffic light-controlled junctions.
History[]
- 3 April 1978: Route 94 entered service.[1][2]
- April 1978: In response to the feedback from residents of Tai Mong Tsai that the morning and evening bus services were not as good as before after the replacement of Route 93 by Route 94, special trips between Sai Kung and Tai Mong Tsai were introduced, with three trips on weekdays and four trips on holidays.[3]
- 21 October 1986: Sai Kung terminus was relocated to the site of present-day Sai Kung Garden to the new terminus at the junction between Wai Man Road and Fuk Man Road.
- 19 October 1987: Tai Mong Tsai special services were reduced to operate only 2 trips on weekdays and 4 on holidays.
- 16 May 1994: Air-conditioned bus service was introduced which provided service only on weekdays.
- 16 September 1996: Service hours were extended with the last bus times from Sai Kung and Wong Shek Pier delayed to 21:00 and 21:35 respectively, and the Tai Mong Tsai special service was cancelled.
- 1 September 2000: A new stop was added at "Tai Mong Tsai San Tsuen" on Tai Mong Tsai Road for Sai Kung direction.
- 8 December 2000: Octopus card payment was accepted.
- 17 May 2003: Enhanced to full air-conditioned service.[4]
- 23 May 2004: In response to the traffic control measures in Sai Kung Town, the bus stop "Sai Kung Police Station" on Fuk Man Road would be omitted for Sai Kung on Saturdays, Sundays and Public Holidays between 4pm to 8pm.
- 28 August 2013: A new stop was added at "Muk Min Shan" on Tai Mong Tsai Road for both directions.
- 27 June 2015: Estimated Time of Arrival (ETA) enquiry service was introduced to this route.[5]
- 5 November 2018: The last bus from Sai Kung was delayed from 21:00 to 21:50, while that from Wong Shek Pier was delayed from 21:35 to 22:30.[6]
- 31 May 2019: The "Tai Mong Tsai" bus stop was relocated to Tai Mong Tsai Road and no longer entered Tai Mong Tsai Carpark, which was initially as a temporary measure only[7] and was later regularised on 15 January 2021.[8]
- 5 August 2019: The first bus times from Sai Kung and Wong Shek Pier on Mondays to Fridays were advanced to 05:45 and 06:25 respectively.[9]
- 17 July 2021: A new Octopus two-way section fare from Sai Kung to Mak Pin was introduced.[10]
- 9 August 2025: A new stop was added at "Chi Lit Path" on Tai Mong Tsai Road for Sai Kung direction.[11]
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 3/2024, see here for the referenced link
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- This route provides Estimated Time of Arrival enquiry Service.
Remarks[]
- The frequency of this route will be increased on weekends and holidays according to the passenger demand;
- Short-working special services towards Pak Tam Chung will be operated as appropriate whenever there are large-scale activities in Pak Tam Chung and Sai Kung East Country Park;
- In case of inclement weather, the service may be suspended or reduced at short notice; service may be stopped immediately without prior notice in case of further deterioration of weather.
Fares[]
| Fare chart (to Wong Shek Pier) | ||
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Boarding stop \ Alighting stop
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Sai Kung or after |
Tai Mong Tsai or after |
| Mak Pin or before |
$6.5 ＊ | |
| Wong Shek Pier or before |
$7.8 | $7.4 |
| Fare chart (to Sai Kung) | ||
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Boarding stop \ Alighting stop
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Wong Shek Pier or after |
Tai Mong Tsai or after |
| Sai Kung or before |
$7.8 | $5.1 |
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Bus-Bus Interchange Concessions[]
Passengers using the same Octopus card to interchange to the designated route after this route within a specific time, or transfer from the designated route to this route can enjoy an interchange concession. The details are as follows: (Half discount for children and senior citizens.) Template:KMB Route 94 Interchange Concession Scheme
LWB Airbus Routes and KMB Interchange Concession Scheme[]
| LWB Airport Routes, AsiaWorld-Expo Special Routes and KMB Interchange Concession Scheme | |||||
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| 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 | ||
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Note:
＊: 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). | |||||
Bus deployments[]
A total of 4 Enviro500 MMC 12m (ATENU) double-decker buses are assigned to this route as scheduled buses. Some buses may be dispatched away to routes 99 and 292P.
| List of buses on Route 94 | ||
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| Fleet no. | Plate no. | Depot |
| ATENU72 | SE6836 | Kowloon Bay Depot (K) |
| ATENU178 | SJ6871 | |
| ATENU233 | SL6083 | |
| ATENU333 | TA7343 | |
The above list of scheduled buses are as of May 2025, 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.2525
Interlining operations[]
Since commencing service 26 years ago, routes 94 and 99 have shared a common fleet, implementing a interlining operation arrangement. Scheduled buses operate alternately on both routes, with one route returning to Sai Kung before immediately transferring to the other route to continue service.
When vehicles operating Route 99 return to Sai Kung from Nai Chung, the bus captain will steer the bus into the lay-by for this route, then switch to operating this route, departing at the 00-minute interval. Conversely, vehicles on this route departing from Wong Shek Pier at the 35-minute interval to return to Sai Kung will switch to operating Route 99, departing at the 15-minute interval. Should severe traffic congestion disrupt the original timetable of Route 99, the Sai Kung Depot Manager may, depending on circumstances, divert vehicles from Route 92 or the later Route 299 to operate on Route 99 to maintain the original schedule. Before Route 99 was converted to full air-conditioned service, air-conditioned buses occasionally operated on this route, charging only the fare applicable to non-air-conditioned buses.
In earlier years, buses operating on these two routes, like other KMB fleet members, used rollsigns to display route numbers and destinations in which bus captains simply adjusted the fabric signs from the cab. However, KMB later switched to plastic destination signs, implemented across all double-decker buses. As the sign box was positioned at the front of the upper deck, bus captains frequently had to go upstairs to change signs, which proved rather inconvenient. Consequently, drivers operating these routes later simply omitted installing plastic signs in the sign box, instead inserting them into the lower front windscreen (only blank plastic signs were inserted into the front and rear sign boxes). Subsequently, KMB made minor adjustments to its operational scheduling, assigning buses retaining rollsigns as scheduled buses for these two routes to resolve the issue (see below for details).
On 18 December 2004, Route 99 was extended from Nai Chung to Wu Kai Sha Station Station and the interlining operation model for the two routes was finally discontinued, with each route now having its own dedicated scheduled buses.
Bus deployment evolution history[]
| Bus deployment evolution history of KMB Route 94 |
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Routing[]
The distance of this route is approx. 14.8km, and the journey time is approximately 34mins. (The average speed is 26.1km/h.)
To Wong Shek Pier[]
Via: Wai Man Road, Fuk Man Road, Po Tung Road, Tai Mong Tsai Road, Pak Tam Chung Bus Terminus, Tai Mong Tsai Road and Pak Tam Road
| Kowloon Motor Bus Route 94 (Sai Kung → Wong Shek Pier) | ||||
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| No. | Area | Road | Bus stop name | Remarks |
| 1 | Sai Kung Town Centre | Sai Kung Bus Terminus | Section fare begins here | |
| 2 | Tai Mong Tsai Road | Sha Kok Mei | ||
| 3 | Muk Min Shan | |||
| 4 | Tai Mong Tsai | Tai Wan | ||
| 5 | Mak Pin | Two-way section fare ends here | ||
| 6 | Tai Mong Tsai Road Wong Chuk Wan | |||
| 7 | Tso Wo Hang | |||
| 8 | Fung Sau Road | |||
| 9 | Ah Kung Wan | |||
| 10 | Tai Mong Tsai | Section fare begins here | ||
| 11 | Tai Mong Tsai San Tsuen | |||
| 12 | Sai Kung Outdoor Training Camp | |||
| 13 | Pak Tam Chung | Tsam Chuk Wan | ||
| 14 | Wong Keng Tei | |||
| 15 | Pak Tam Chung | For MacLehose Trail Stage 1, please alight at this stop | ||
| 16 | Tai Mong Tsai Road | Sheung Yiu | ||
| 17 | Pak Tam Road | Tsak Yue Wu | ||
| 18 | Lady MacLehose Holiday Village | |||
| 19 | Pak Tam Au | Pak Tam Au Management Office | ||
| 20 | Pak Tam Au | |||
| 21 | Uk Tau | |||
| 22 | Ko Tong | |||
| 23 | Wong Shek | Tai Tan | ||
| 24 | Tai Tan Barbecue Site | |||
| 25 | Wong Shek Pier | Alighting only | ||
| 26 | Wong Shek Pier Bus Terminus | |||
To Sai Kung[]
Via: Pak Tam Road, Tai Mong Tsai Road, Pak Tam Chung Bus Terminus, Tai Mong Tsai Road, Po Tung Road and Fuk Man Road
| Kowloon Motor Bus Route 94 (Wong Shek Pier → Sai Kung) | ||||
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| No. | Area | Road | Bus stop name | Remarks |
| 1 | Wong Shek | Pak Tam Road | Wong Shek Pier Bus Terminus | |
| 2 | Ko Tong Ha Yeung | |||
| 3 | Pak Tam Au | Ko Tong | ||
| 4 | To Kwa Pin | |||
| 5 | Pak Tam Au | |||
| 6 | Pak Tam Au Management Office | |||
| 7 | Pak Tam Chung | Lady MacLehose Holiday Village | ||
| 8 | Tsak Yue Wu | |||
| 9 | Tai Mong Tsai Road | Sheung Yiu | ||
| 10 | Pak Tam Chung | |||
| 11 | Tai Mong Tsai Road | Wong Keng Tei | ||
| 12 | Tsam Chuk Wan | |||
| 13 | Tai Mong Tsai | Chi Lit Path | ||
| 14 | Sai Kung Outdoor Training Camp | |||
| 15 | Tai Mong Tsai San Tsuen | |||
| 16 | Tai Mong Tsai | Section fare begins here | ||
| 17 | Ah Kung Wan | |||
| 18 | Fung Sau Road | |||
| 19 | Tso Wo Hang | |||
| 20 | Tai Mong Tsai Road Wong Chuk Wan | |||
| 21 | Mak Pin | |||
| 22 | Tai Wan | |||
| 23 | Sai Kung Town Centre | Muk Min Shan | ||
| 24 | Sha Kok Mei | |||
| 25 | Fuk Man Road | Sai Kung Police Station | ||
| 26 | Sai Kung Bus Terminus | |||
Ridership[]
According to District Council documents, the ridership of this route is as follows:
- 2018: The average occupancy rate during the morning peak hours on weekdays was less than 50%[12] and the occupancy rate during the busiest hour on weekdays was about 76%.[13]
- 2019: According to an inspection at Tai Mong Tsai Road near Mak Pin, the occupancy rate of the five buses heading for Sai Kung between 06:30 and 09:30 was 6-27%.[14] However, some District Councillors pointed out that the problem of lost trips on this route was serious and the data could not reflect the reality.[15]
- 2020: The average occupancy rate of the buses upon leaving Sai Kung Bus Terminus were:
Controversies[]
Sai Kung residents hung a banner in the district as a protest against the headway adjustment of this route
After KMB adjusted the frequency of this route to 40-minute headways on weekdays on 5 November 2018, it has been accused of causing inconvenience to passengers and failing to cope with "kaito" ferry services to and from Ko Lau Wan and Tap Mun. Members of the Sai Kung and Tai Po District Councils requested that the frequency be reverted to 30-minute, and there were even banners in the Sai Kung North area[18][19] in relation to this request. KMB responded that it would adjust its timetable within July 2019, mainly by changing the morning peak hour frequency to a time closer to the departure time before the timetable revision in November 2018, and also proposed to increase the frequency to Sai Kung during weekday evenings[20].It was originally scheduled to be implemented on 29 July and KMB even uploaded a notice on the official website[21], but the notice was later withdrawn. In the end, it was delayed by one week and came into effect on 5 August.[9]
Related events/incidents[]
Free ride days[]
- 19 March 2006: KMB collaborated with the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) to offer free rides on the "Walk for Nature 2006" route between 07:00 and 19:00 on the day of the Walk for Nature 2006 event, provided that participants put their boarding passes issued by WWF into the money box on the bus.[22]
Fire accidents[]
- 13 March 2011: At approximately 11:00 am, a Dennis Trident (ATS72/KC8460) bound for Sai Kung broke down on Tai Mong Tsai Road. When the driver restarted the engine, smoke suddenly emerged from the front of the vehicle before catching fire. No injuries were sustained.[23]
Traffic accidents[]
- 6 July 2014: At approximately 1:00 pm, a Volvo Super Olympian (ASV19/JY7839) travelling towards Wong Shek Pier collided with a seven-seater vehicle on the opposite carriageway near Tai Mong Tsai Road and Tai Wan, leaving six individuals injured.[24]
Passenger and bus captain incidents[]
- 15 December 2018: At approximately 5:00 pm, a fully occupied bus travelling towards Sai Kung was forcibly intercepted on Tai Mong Tsai Road by two passengers waiting at the bus stop who were dissatisfied with the bus skipping their stop.[25][26]
- 6 April 2019: In the evening, passengers filled the upper deck passageway and stairwell of a bus bound for Wong Shek Pier. The driver failed to address the overcrowding and continued the journey. The incident was filmed by passengers and uploaded to a social media group.[27]
- 4 October 2022: At approximately 3:00 pm, a bus approached Tai Mong Tsai Road near the Sai Kung Outdoor Training Camp when a 27-year-old male passenger boarded carrying an electric unicycle commonly known as a "hoverboard". The device reportedly malfunctioned and suddenly activated on its own, causing the wheel to scrape against the bus floor and emit thick smoke. Passengers alerted the police and evacuated through the emergency exit door. No injuries were reported.[28]
Window dressing[]
- 12 April 2020: Some netizens found that a bus on this route arrived at Sai Kung Bus Terminus and left for a period of time before the signage displayed the destination information of Route 96R, which was in the form of a "phantom bus" that re-entered Sai Kung Bus Terminus to carry passengers to Wong Shek Pier, deliberately avoiding that route's main service area of Diamond Hill and Choi Hung, taking the opportunity to earn a higher amount of money at a lower operational cost, which was being criticised for being a suspected window dressing.[29]
Gallery[]
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Remarks[]
Related articles[]
- KMB Route 93 (Cancelled)
- KMB Route 95R (Cancelled)
- KMB Route 96R
- KMB Route R94
- New Territories GMB Route 7
- New Territories GMB Route 9
References[]
- ↑ "西貢半島增巴士線" (New bus route to be introduced in Sai Kung Peninsula), Wah Kiu Yat Po, 2 April 1978.
- ↑ "九龍汽車（一九三三）有限公司通告" (Notice from Kowloon Motor Bus Company (1933) Limited), Wah Kiu Yat Po, 3 April 1978.
- ↑ 問九巴94在1978-1996年大網仔-西貢短途班次, hkitalk.net
- ↑ The Kowloon Motor Bus Company (1933) Limited, "KMB provides full Air-conditioned Service on Routes 94 and 99" [News Release], 14 May 2003.
- ↑ The Kowloon Motor Bus Company (1933) Limited, "146 Additional Routes Provided with “Estimated Time of Arrival” – More than half of KMB & LWB routes" [News Release], 26 June 2015.
- ↑ The Kowloon Motor Bus Company (1933) Limited, "94 Extension service period and Frequency Adjustment" [Passenger Notice], November 2018.
- ↑ The Kowloon Motor Bus Company (1933) Limited, "94, 96R Bus Stop Temporary Relocation" [Passenger Notice], May 2019.
- ↑ The Kowloon Motor Bus Company (1933) Limited, "94, 96R Bus Stop Permanent Relocation" [Passenger Notice], January 2021.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 The Kowloon Motor Bus Company (1933) Limited, "94 Advanced Morning Departure and Timetable Adjustment" [Passenger Notice], August 2019.
- ↑ The Kowloon Motor Bus Company (1933) Limited, "KMB Implements the Short-journey Section Fare Scheme in Tseung Kwan O on 17 July Comprising of 16 routes and 27 Octopus Card Validators" [News Release], 20 June 2021.
- ↑ The Kowloon Motor Bus Company (1933) Limited, "33R, 74R, 94, 96R, 289R Addition of Bus Stop" [Passenger Notice], August 2025.
- ↑ The Kowloon Motor Bus Company (1933) Limited, "The Kowloon Motor Bus Co. (1933) Limited’s response to SKDC(TTC) Paper No.8/19 "Request for adjusting the frequency of bus route no. 94"" (Chinese only), SKDC(TTC) Paper No. 48/2019, 21 January 2019.
- ↑ Transport Department HKSARG, "Transport Department’s response to SKDC(TTC) Paper No.8/19", January 2019.
- ↑ "Progress on the follow up of bus services by the Transport Department in response to the 5th meeting of the Traffic and Transport Committee in 2019", SKDC(TTC) Paper No. 4/20.
- ↑ "Sai Kung District Council Traffic and Transport Committee Minutes of the Second Meeting in 2020", May 2020.
- ↑ Transport Department HKSARG, "Written reply from the Transport Department: Enquiry about the details of the departures of bus route nos. 92 and 94" (Chinese only), Working Group on Bus and Minibus Routes in Sai Kung District Paper No. 4/2020, October 2020.
- ↑ Transport Department HKSARG, "Written reply from the Transport Department: Enquiry about the details of the departures of bus route nos. 92 and 94" (Chinese only), Working Group on Bus and Minibus Routes in Sai Kung District Paper No. 5/21, 21 December 2020.
- ↑ "要求94號線的班次維持每30分鐘一班", 26 November 2018.
- ↑ "Request for adjusting the frequency of bus route no. 94" (Chinese only), SKDC(TTC) Paper No. 8/19, 9 January 2019.
- ↑ "Progress on the follow up of bus services by the Transport Department in response to the 3rd meeting of the Traffic & Transport Committee in 2019" (Chinese only), July 2019
- ↑ The Kowloon Motor Bus Company (1933) Limited, "94 Timetable Adjustment" [Passenger Notice], July 2019.
- ↑ The Kowloon Motor Bus Company (1933) Limited, "九巴贊助「步走大自然2006」為參加者提供免費巴士服務" (Chinese only) [News Release].
- ↑ "九巴險燒通頂", Sun Post, 14 March 2011.
- ↑ "七人車撼九巴釀六傷" (6 injured after 7-seater vehicle collided with KMB bus), Oriental Daily News, 7 July 2014.
- ↑ "不滿客滿飛站 兩漢囂張衝馬路攔九巴", Oriental Daily News, 15 December 2018.
- ↑ "爆相爆片：巴士滿座飛站 肥哥嬲豬 肉臂擋車", Apple Daily, 17 December 2018.
- ↑ "【Kelly Online】西貢巴士上層及梯間企滿人 司機照開車惹熱議", Headline Daily, 7 April 2019.
- ↑ "西貢九巴白煙瀰漫 全車人狼狽走避 乘客攜風火輪「燒胎」肇禍", HK01, 4 October 2022.
- ↑ 西貢往黃石94加班車變成96R鬼車 (Route 94 additional bus from Sai Kung to Wong Shek becomes phantom bus of Rt 96R), hkitalk.net
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