The Kowloon Green Minibus Route 49M is operated by Koon Wing Motors Limited (冠榮車行有限公司) (Passenger Service Licence (PSL) No. 3289C) under Ma Ah Muk. It runs between Shun Tin Estate and Ping Shek, passing through Shun On Estate, Shun Lee Estate and Choi Wan Estate (New Clear Water Bay Road).
This route is a short-working service of Route 49, which has the exact same routing as Route 54M of the same series (but with a different Passenger Service Licence), and together they provide rail feeder services for Four Shun residents. Therefore, the two route numbers are often mixed, so there may be cases where minibuses are still dispatched outside the scheduled service hours.
In addition, this route is one of the mixed intra- and inter-district GMB routes, serving Kwun Tong District in the direction of Ping Shek, and Wong Tai Sin and Kwun Tong districts in the direction of Shun Tin. [Remark 1]
History[]
- TBC: Short-haul trips of Route 49 running between Shun Tin and MTR Choi Hung Station (Ping Shek) entered service as an auxillary service to another shortworking service 54M that was also operated by Ma Ah Muk.
- 21 January 2007: Route 49 and its special trips detoured via 1/F Podium of Ping Shek Public Transport Interchange, omitting Ngau Chi Wan Bus-Bus Interchange.[1]
- 21 December 2014: The Choi Hung Station shortworking trips were independently numbered as 49M.
- 18 March 2016: Octopus Interchange Concessions with MTR was introduced to this route. There was no interchange discount on this route at the beginning of the service and it was only added after some passengers found it and complained to the District Councillors.
- 19 January 2020: AlipayHK "Easy Go" payment was accepted.[2]
- 28 June 2022: Real-time Arrival Information was introduced to this route. [3]
Service hours and headways[]
| From Shun Tin | From Ping Shek | Headways (mins) |
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| Daily | ||
| 06:00 - 00:00 | 06:15 - 00:15 | 20 |
- This route provides Real-time Arrival Information on the Transport Department“HKeMobility” mobile app.
Fares[]
| Journey/Boarding stop | Fare |
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| Full fares | $4.7 |
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This route has no section fares. |
Octopus Interchange Concessions[]
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Minibus deployments[]
According to the Transport Department's Schedule of Services, this route and Route 49 require a total of 4 minibuses to provide service, 2 of which are 19-seat minibuses, and 2 of which must run on Route 49M.
Currently this route and Kowloon GMB Routes 48 and 49 use a total of 15 of TOYOTA Coaster minibuses, including 1 of 16-seater minibuses and 14 of 19-seater minibuses Any vehicle of Route 48 can support this riute when necessary.
| List of Koon Wing Motors minibuses | |||||
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| Plate no. | Type code [Remark 2] | Seat(s) | Destination sign config. | Route | Remarks |
| KV524 | 2018 7LL | 19-seater Vogelseat | Patent Enterprises EDS | 48 | Plate originally belonged to a Taxi |
| KY7900 | 2019 7LL | Transfull EDS | Plate originally belonged to a 2003 5LS on Sky Team Transportation's Kowloon Routes 76A/76B | ||
| 2004 5LS2 | 16-seater high back seat | Rollsign | Spare | Idled in Kowloon Bay (Enterprise Square) Shifted once to Brilliant Way's Kowloon Route 47 | |
| LV546 | 2005 5LS2 | 48 | |||
| spare | Idled in Kowloon Bay (Enterprise Square) | ||||
| MA777 | 2019 7LL | 19-seater Vogelseat | Transfull EDS | 49/49M | Entered service in December 2019 Plate originally belonged to a 5LS on Better Coin Industrial's New Territories Route 28K |
| 2005 5LS2 | 16-seater high back seat | Rollsign | Spare | Idled in Kowloon Bay (Enterprise Square) Former vehicle on Garrison's Hong Kong Island Routes 32/33 series Joined in May 2023 | |
| VS4414 | 2018 7LL | 19-seater Vogelseat | Patent Enterprises EDS | 48 | |
| VU7720 | |||||
| VV4736 | |||||
| VW5106 | |||||
| WB5368 | 2019 7LL | Transfull EDS | |||
| WB7588 | |||||
| WB8178 | |||||
| WU2931 | 2020 7LL | Entered service in June 2020 | |||
| XR2113 | 2021 7LL | Entered service in October 2021 | |||
| YR3090 | 2023 7DL | 19-seater original 3-point harness seat | 49/49M | Equipped with 2.8-litre engine and automatic transmission Entered service in May 2023 | |
| ZR6706 | 2024 7DL | 48 | Equipped with 2.8-litre engine and automatic transmission Entered service in October 2024 | ||
| List of former vehicles of Koon Wing Motors | ||||||
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| Plate no | Model | Type no | Number of Seats | Date of Retired/Withdrawal | Going | Replacing vehicles |
| EK3289 | TOYOTA Coaster | 2004 5LS2 | 16 | March 2019 | Transferred to Sky Team Transportation's Kowloon Routes 76A/76B | |
| FN9954 | 1993 3rd Generation | April 2005 | Retired | LW6607 (2005 5LS2) | ||
| HE7335 | 1997 3rd generation | Unknown | ||||
| JR746 | 2000 4LS | January 2001 | ||||
| JS3684 | Vicmax Zen | |||||
| KW1462 | TOYOTA Coaster | 2003 5LS | March 2019 | |||
| LJ6057 | 2004 5LS | December 2019 | MA777 (2019 7LL) | |||
| LK8502 | May 2020 | XR2113 (2021 7LL) | ||||
| LM4412 | June 2020 | ME1929 (2005 5LS2) | ||||
| LM8613 | 2018 | |||||
| LS7541 | 2004 5LS2 | |||||
| LS8862 | ||||||
| LT8081 | June 2020 | Transferred to Brilliant Way's Kowloon Routes 37A/37M | WU2931 (2020 7LL) | |||
| LW6607 | 2005 5LS2 | Unknown | Retired | |||
| LZ3891 | October 2024 | Converted to Private Light Bus for training | ZR6706 (2024 7DL) | |||
| MA5935 | May 2019 | Transferred to Garrison's Hong Kong Island Routes 32/33 series | WD6298 (2019 7LL) | |||
| MA9269 | Unknown | Transferred to Better Coin Industrial's Kowloon Routes 54 series | ||||
| MB6209 | March 2019 | Transferred to Sky Team Transportation's Kowloon Routes 76A/76B | ||||
| MB8651 | Unknown | Transferred to Better Coin Industrial's Kowloon Routes 54 series | ||||
| MF2918 | 2006 5LS2 | March 2019 | Transferred to Sky Team Transportation's Kowloon Routes 76A/76B | |||
| MK1549 | ||||||
| WD6298 | 2019 7LL | 19 | May 2023 | Transferred to Garrison's Hong Kong Island Routes 32/33 series | YR3090 (2023 7DL) | |
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 1/2025202501
Routing[]
The distance of this route is approx. 2.5km, and the journey time is approximately 10mins. (The average speed is 15km/h.)
- The names listed in the table below under "Major Stop Locations" are the fixed pick-up/drop-off points for this route, and the part of the name with an underline refers to the name commonly used by passengers (including Cantonese transliterations of the commonly-used Chinese names)
- Passengers may be picked up and dropped off freely along the route outside the restricted area unless otherwise stated.
To Ping Shek[]
Via: Shun On Road, Lee On Road, New Clear Water Bay Road and Clear Water Bay Road
| Kowloon GMB Route 49M (Shun Tin → Ping Shek) | ||||
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| No. | Area | Road | Major stop locations | Remarks |
| 1 | Four Shun | Shun On Road |
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| 2 | Lee On Road |
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| 3 | Ngau Chi Wan | New Clear Water Bay Road |
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To Shun Tin[]
Via: Clear Water Bay Road, New Clear Water Bay Road, San Lee Street, Lee On Road, Shun On Road, Shun Lee Estate Road, Sau Mau Ping Road and Shun On Road
| Kowloon GMB Route 49M (Ping Shek → Shun Tin) | ||||
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| No. | Area | Road | Major stop locations | Remarks |
| 1 | Ngau Chi Wan |
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| 2 | New Clear Water Bay Road |
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| 3 | Four Shun | San Lee Street |
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| 4 | Lee On Road |
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| 5 | Shun On Road |
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| 6 | Sau Mau Ping Road |
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| 7 | Shun On Road |
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Gallery[]
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Remarks[]
- ↑ The section of Clear Water Bay Road and New Clear Water Bay Road that this route passes through forms the boundary between Wong Tai Sin District and Kwun Tong District and therefore the Choi Wan Estate stop for Shun Tin direction is administratively under the Wong Tai Sin District.
- ↑ 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).
Related articles[]
References[]
- ↑ Transport Department HKSARG, "坪石專線小巴站安排" (Arrangement of GMB stops at Ping Shek) [Traffic Notice], January 2007.
- ↑ Transport Department HKSARG, "Launch of a New Electronic Payment System on Kowloon Green Minibus (GMB) Route Nos. 48, 49 and 49M" [Traffic Advice], 9 January 2020.
- ↑ Transport Department HKSARG, "Real-time arrival information system for GMBs expanded to cover 453 routes" [News Bulletin], 28 June 2022.
- ↑ Transport Department HKSARG, "Fare adjustment of Kowloon Route nos. 48, 49 and 49M" [Traffic Advice], 8 October 2024.
- ↑ Transport Department HKSARG, "Fare adjustment of Kowloon Route nos. 48, 49 and 49M" [Traffic Advice], 28 July 2022.
- ↑ Transport Department HKSARG, "Fare adjustment of Kowloon Route nos. 48, 49 and 49M" [Traffic Advice], 14 March 2019.
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