Kowloon GMB Route 72

The Kowloon Green Minibus Route 72 is operated by Win Access Investment Limited (捷俊國際有限公司) (Passenger Service Licence (PSL) No. 10723C) under Chiap Shing Motor. It runs between Grandview Garden and Festival Walk, via Diamond Hill (Fung Tak Road) and Chuk Yuen.

History[]

10 March 2000: The Transport Department invited public tenders for 6 groups of 8 new green minibus (GMB) routes, this route was one of them.
1 September 2000: Route 72 entered service, running between Grandview Garden and Festival Walk.
30 March 2022: Real-time Arrival Information System was introduced to this route. ^[1]

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[]

From Grandview Garden	From Festival Walk	Headways (mins)
Mondays to Fridays
06:15 - 07:15	06:30 - 07:30	12
07:15 - 09:31	07:30 - 09:30	8
09:31 - 17:07	09:30 - 17:30	12
17:07 - 20:03	17:30 - 19:54	8
20:03 - 23:27	19:54 - 23:42	12
Saturday
06:15 - 07:27	06:30 - 07:30	12
07:27 - 19:27	07:30 - 19:30	10
19:27 - 23:27	19:30 - 23:42	12
Sundays and Public Holidays
06:15 - 23:27	06:30 - 23:42	12

Fares[]

Journey/Boarding stops	Fares
Full fares	$7.5
Fare chart to Festival Walk
From Chuk Yuen Market	$5.5
From Cornwall Street	$3.1 (Cash Only)
Fare chart to Grandview Garden
From Tin Ma Court	$5.5

Fare Remarks
Same fare regardless of age. Elderly persons aged 65 or above using Elderly Octopus 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 Concessionary Fare. Passengers are required to tender exact fare in cash or by Octopus card upon boarding. No change will be given.

MTR interchange concessions[]

and MTR Interchange Concessions
1st leg	2nd leg	Discounted amount	Time limit
'	MTR	50￠	90 minutes
MTR	'	50￠	90 minutes
Notes: Passengers must use the same Octopus Card to pay the fare for both the minibus and MTR to enjoy the above-mentioned interchange concession. Passengers can enjoy the above transfer discount at any MTR station / minibus stop that connects to the second leg of the route. The MTR ride does not apply to Light Rail, Airport Express, Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong High-Speed Rail, MTR Bus and MTR Feeder Bus services. The MTR interchange concession only applies to paid rides. Unless otherwise specified, passengers using the Monthly Pass Enhanced Version or Disneyland Line Monthly Ticket (including those who have paid First Class Supplementary Fare) cannot enjoy this concession when taking the MTR at designated stations; however, if Enhanced Monthly Pass or Disneyland Resort Line Monthly Ticket holders take paid rides outside the designated stations, the concession still applies. If passengers have just used the same Octopus Card for the Airport Express "Free MTR Connection," they cannot simultaneously enjoy the MTR interchange concession. If both "MTR Fare Saver" and "MTR Interchange Concession" are applicable, passengers can only enjoy one of the higher discounts. Higher concession amounts are available for certain GMB routes at designated MTR stations. For more details, please refer to MTR Website. Edit

Minibus deployments[]

According to Transport Department's "Schedule of Services", this route require a total of 8 minibuses to provide service. The total passenger capacity in each direction during the peak hour is not less than 120.

This route has a total of 8 Toyota Coaster LPG minibuses, including 6 16-seater minibuses and 2 19-seater minibuses.

This route was once served by 12 3rd generation and 4th generation Toyota Coaster diesel minibuses, and as these minibuses were getting older (mainly in response to government funding to replace Euro 1 and Euro 2 diesel minibuses), they were retired in June 2018 and were replaced by quantity of second hand minibuses. In addition, two newest Toyota Coaster LPG minibuses replaced the older ones in December 2016 and December 2017.

List of Kowloon Route 72 minibuses
Plate no.	Type code ^{[Remark 1]}	Seat(s)	Destination sign config.	Remarks
ES4206	2009 6LS	16-seater high adopt seat	Rollsign	Formerly a vehicle on Main River Transportation's Kowloon Route 73 Plate originally belonged to a Mitsubishi Rosa (2002 BE639E) Joined in April 2018
GF2773	2005 5LS2			Formerly a vehicle on King On Transportation's New Territories Route 312 Joined in February 2018
GK6438				Formerly a vehicle on Main River Transportation's Kowloon Route 73 Plate originally belonged to a Mitsubishi Rosa (1995 BE439E) on a part of Red Minibus Tsz Mong Route^{[Remark 2]} Joined in June 2018
JE1303				Formerly a vehicle on King On Transportation's New Territories Route 312 Plate originally belonged to a Mitsubishi Rosa (1999 BE439E) on Merry Dragon's New Territories Route 12
KS6082	2009 6LS			Formerly a vehicle on Main River Transportation's Kowloon Route 73 Plate Originally belonged to a Mitsubishi Rosa (2002 BE639E) of that series Joined in February 2018
PP5940	2010 6LS			Formerly a vehicle on Main River Transportation Kowloon Route 73 Joined in June 2018
UM3175	2016 6LL	19-seater Vegaset		Entered service in December 2016 The first 19-seater minibus in this series
VD6029	2017 7LL	19-seater Vegaset	Patient Enterprises EDS	Entered service in December 2017

List of Former minibus of Kowloon Route 72
Plate no	Type no	Retired/withdrawal date	Whereabouts	Substituted vehicle(s)
EP1352	2004 5LS	January 2021	Retired
HH3273	1997 3rd generation	June 2018	Retired	KT3275 (2002 5LS)
HM7009	1997 3rd generation	Unknown	Transferred to Central Venture's Kowloon Route 12S
JC8136	1999 4th generation	June 2018	Retired
JH5931
JH7084
JL9515	2000 4th generation
JM1936
JM2414
JS6041				PP5940 (2010 6LS)
JX5598	2001 4th generation
KF2295	2001 4th generation
KK6349	2002 4th generation			GK6438 (2005 5LS2)
KT3275	2002 5LS	2022	Unknown
LK7488	2004 5LS	2022	Unknown

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

Routing[]

The distance of this route is approx. 5.9km, and the journey time is approximately 21mins. (The average speed is 16.9km/h.)

To Festival Walk[]

Via: Grandview Garden access, Hammer Hill Road, Fung Tak Road, Shatin Pass Road, Wong Tai Sin Road, Nga Chuk Street, Chuk Yuen Road, Junction Road, Waterloo Road, Cornwall Street and Tat Chee Avenue

Kowloon GMB Route 72 (Grandview Garden → Festival Walk)
No.	Area	Road	Major stop locations	Remarks
1	Hammer Hill		Grandview Garden Minibus Terminus (Outside Block 4)
2	Diamond Hill	Hammer Hill Road	Hammer Hill Road Playground
3	Diamond Hill	Fung Tak Road	Chi Lin Nunnery Plaza Hollywood (Marks and Spencer Department store/Galaxia) Lung Poon Court (Fung Tak Estate)	Hail-and-ride section
3	Fung Wong San Tsuen	Fung Tak Road	Fung Tak Park	Hail-and-ride section
4	Wong Tai Sin	Wong Tai Sin Road	Sik Sik Yuen Wong Tai Sin Temple
5	Chuk Yuen	Nga Chuk Street	Chuk Yuen South Estate Chui Yuen House
6	Chuk Yuen	Chuk Yuen Road	Chuk Yuen Market Baptist Rainbow Primary School (Pang Ching Court) Tin Wang Court Tin Ma Court	Section fare begins here
6	Wang Tau Hom	Chuk Yuen Road	Ka Keung Court
7	Kowloon Tong	Junction Road	Hong Kong Baptist University Shaw College (Baptist University) Franki Centre (Former site of Riverside Restaurant/Hong Kong Baptist Hospital)
8	Kowloon Tong	Cornwall Street	Kent Road Mount Beacon (Student Residence, City University of Hong Kong)	Cash section fare begins here
9	Yau Yat Chuen	Tat Chee Road	Hong Kong City University Tak Chee Yuen
10	Yau Yat Chuen		Festival Walk Public Transport Terminus (City University of Hong Kong/CityU)

To Grandview Garden[]

Via: Tat Chee Avenue, Cornwall Street, Waterloo Road, Junction Road, Chuk Yuen Road, Nga Chuk Street, Wong Tai Sin Road, Shatin Pass Road, Fung Tak Road, Hammar Hill Road and Grandview Garden Access

Kowloon GMB Route 72 (Festival Walk → Grandview Garden}
No.	Area	Road	Major stop locations	Remarks
1	Yau Yat Tsuen		Festival Walk Public Transport Terminus (City University of Hong Kong/CityU)
2	Kowloon Tong	Cornwall Street	Mount Beacon Kent Road Cornwall Terrace (Ede Road)	Hail-and-ride section
3	Kowloon Tong	Junction Road	Hong Kong Baptist Hospital (Baptist Hospital) Franki Centre(Riverside Restaurant old address)
4	Wang Tau Hom	Chuk Yuen Road	Fu Mei Street (Ka Keung Court)
4	Chuk Yuen	Chuk Yuen Road	Tin Wang Court (Tin Ma Court) Pang Ching Court (Tsui Chuk Garden) Chuk Yuen Plaza	Section fare begins here Hail-and-ride section
5	Chuk Yuen	Nga Chuk Street	Chuk Yuen South Estate Chui Yuen House
6	Wong Tai Sin	Wong Tai Sin Road	Sik Sik Yuen Wong Tai Sin Temple
7	Fung Wong San Tsuen	Fung Tak Road	Wong Tai Sin Fire Station Mei Tak House (Hang Seng Bank Tsz Wan Shan Branch)	Hail-and-ride section
7	Diamond Hill	Fung Tak Road	Fung Tak Shopping Centre (Lung Poon Court) Plaza Hollywood (Marks and Spencer) Chi Lin Nunnery	Hail-and-ride section
8	Hammer Hill	Hammer Hill Road	Chun Tok School (Hammer Hill Playground)
9	Hammer Hill		Grandview Garden Minibus Terminus (Outside Block 4)

Ridership[]

This route formerly was a main shuttle route to the KCR East Rail (now East Rail Line) for King Fu District, Diamond Hill and Chuk Yuen. Since the completion of footbridge linking between Fung Tak Road and Diamond Hill Station as well as Chuk Yuen Estate and Wong Tai Sin Station, many residents switched to railway by walking to MTR Kwun Tong Line stations and no longer relied on minibus connections, causing a decrease in ridership.

According to the data of Transport Department, the daily passenger volume of this route is as follows:

Earlier 2019: 4,900 passengers. ^[2]

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).
↑ That Mitsubishi Rosa was originally a vehicle on Win Top Services' Kowloon Routes 20/20M, and Changed to serve on Red Minibus Chew Luen' under routes, after that changed to serve on Red Minibus Tsz Mong Route, until until it was retired in May 2005. Then the plate number is applied on a 2005 5LS2 on Main River Transportation's Kowloon Route 73, then changed to serve on Win Access Investment in June 2018.

References[]

↑ Transport Department HKSARG, "Real-time arrival information system for Green Minibuses extended to cover 391 routes" [News Bulletin], 30 March 2022.
↑ Replies to initial written questions raised by Finance Committee Members in examining the Estimates of Expenditure 2019-20 Reply No. THB(T)147

External links[]

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16SEATS.net - Kowloon Green Minibus Route 72

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[2] 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).

[3] That Mitsubishi Rosa was originally a vehicle on Win Top Services' Kowloon Routes 20/20M, and Changed to serve on Red Minibus Chew Luen' under routes, after that changed to serve on Red Minibus Tsz Mong Route, until until it was retired in May 2005. Then the plate number is applied on a 2005 5LS2 on Main River Transportation's Kowloon Route 73, then changed to serve on Win Access Investment in June 2018.

[1] Transport Department HKSARG, "Real-time arrival information system for Green Minibuses extended to cover 391 routes" [News Bulletin], 30 March 2022.

[4] Replies to initial written questions raised by Finance Committee Members in examining the Estimates of Expenditure 2019-20 Reply No. THB(T)147

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