Tuen Mun Road (屯門公路), which is part of Route 9, connects Lam Tei in Tuen Mun District with Chai Wan Kok in Tsuen Wan District. It comprises two major sections, the Expressway Section (Wong Chu Road to Tsuen Wan Road) and the Town Centre Section (Wong Chu Road to Lam Tei Interchange), which connects to a number of highways, including Yuen Long Highway, Tsuen Wan Road, and Castle Peak Road (Lingnan, Tai Lam, Sham Tseng and Tsuen Wan sections), and also connects to Tsing Tin Road, Pui To Road, Tuen Fat Road, Tuen Hi Road, Tuen Hing Road, Wong Chu Road, etc. In the Town Centre Section, there are also two branches of longitudinal streets, Tuen Fat Road (southbound) and Tuen Hi Road (northbound).
The 19.2-kilometre-long Tuen Mun Road was opened to traffic in 1983, and is now the longest and most multi-exit road of Route 9, with a total of eight two-way exits and three one-way exits. The section of Tuen Mun Road south of Wong Chu Road is the first statutory expressway in Hong Kong. The current speed limit for the section between Wong Chu Road and Sham Tseng Interchange is 80 kilometres per hour, while that between Sham Tseng Interchange and Tsuen Wan Road is 70 kilometres per hour.
In the 1990s, the traffic on Tuen Mun Road was exceptionally heavy and in the event of an incident, the traffic would be paralysed for at least two to three hours, causing inconvenience to the public. Therefore, the Administration commissioned a consultant to conduct a study and make recommendations, and finally decided to construct additional "climbing lanes" and bus-only lanes to increase the road capacity and arrange for buses with high carrying capacity to use the road on a priority basis.
History[]
In the 1970s, the Government started to develop Tuen Mun New Town and implemented the construction of Tuen Mun Road, a 17-kilometre long road linking Tuen Mun and Tsuen Wan. The construction of the it coincided with the socio-economic downturn at that time and had to be divided into two phases. The first phase of the project commenced in October 1974, with three lanes only, with the Tsuen Wan direction being a two-lane carriageway and the remaining lane being the Tuen Mun direction[1]. The construction was very difficult as most of the road sections were built on hillsides and many of them had to be connected by viaducts, such as So Kwun Tan, Tsing Lung Tau, Sham Tseng and Ting Kau Bridges, and grade-separated lanes were required in the narrow hillside areas. [2]
The first phase of Tuen Mun Road was opened on 5 May 1978 by the then Governor of Hong Kong, Sir Murray MacLehose. On 8 May, KMB_introduced Route 66 between Tai Hing and Lai Chi Kok (Bridge) as the first franchised bus route via Tuen Mun Road, followed by Route 68 between Yuen Long (East) and Jordan Road Ferry on 16 May. On 14 May, KMB's Deluxe Bus Route 250, which used to run along Castle Peak Road with only a few stops, was also diverted to run via Tuen Mun Road.
On 26 January 1979, Tuen Mun Road was gazetted[3] and Phase II was opened to traffic on 17 May 1983, representing the full opening of the three-lane dual two-way expressway.
Only the section of Tuen Mun Road south of Wong Chu Road is an expressway, while the section north of Wong Chu Road is an ordinary trunk road, with en-route bus stops at the San Hui section, and bus stops at the Tuen Mun Town Centre section at Tuen Hi Road and Tuen Fat Road, which are secondary roads on either side.
Climbing lane project[]
As Tuen Mun, Yuen Long and Tin Shui Wai were developing in the 1990s, the volume of traffic on Tuen Mun Road increased straightaway and reached saturation during the morning peak hours, with traffic queues often reaching several kilometres in length, resulting in passengers taking several hours to reach the urban areas and their journeys being greatly affected, and there were incessant complaints. [4]
In April 1993, a feasibility study on the provision of a climbing lane along the Kowloon bound sections of Tuen Mun Road at Sam Shing Hui, So Kwun Wat, Tai Lam and Ting Kau recommended the provision of an extra lane and a 3.3-metre wide shoulder at these four critical uphill sections of Tuen Mun Road in order to alleviate traffic congestion. The study concluded that resumption of private land and clearance of existing buildings should be avoided as far as possible in order to complete the climbing lane project as soon as possible. [5]
The Government finally decided to cut the northern slopes of the four sections to make way for the construction of the climbing lane. The Highways Department awarded the design and construction contract for the climbing route on 27 May 1994, with an original completion date of July 1996, of which the Sam Shing Hui and So Kwun Wat sections were completed in February 1996 ahead of schedule.
Bus lane[]
The serious congestion problem on Tuen Mun Road since the 1990s has greatly affected bus operations, and it has become a common occurrence for the majority of routes to lose their schedules and then cause delays to passengers. The Government even stated that before the completion of the Tuen Mun Road Widening Programme (the Climbing Hill Route project mentioned above) in late 1996 and Route 3 (Country Park Section) in 1998, there was no solution at all to alleviate the traffic congestion on Tuen Mun Road.
In order to relieve bus passengers from the congestion and to encourage more people to use buses, the Government implemented a three-week trial of bus-only lanes on Tuen Mun Road on 25 March 1995, with a 13-kilometre-long slow lane between So Kwun Wat and Tsuen Wan exits in the Kowloon direction operating as a bus-only lane from 06:30 am to 09:00 am on Mondays to Saturdays[6], which allowed only franchised buses and non-franchised buses, including school buses and coaches, to operate. All vehicles are prohibited from using Siu Lam Interchange and Sham Tseng Interchange for the Kowloon direction of Tuen Mun Road, except those permitted to use the bus-only lanes. [6]
KMB_has actively complemented the implementation of bus-only lanes by reorganising the existing special route 261P serving Sam Shing Estate, So Kwun Wat and Siu Lam during the morning peak hours into 262P, and adding a special route 234P serving Sham Tseng for the convenience of passengers along Castle Peak Road, as well as providing 30 additional trips for the 9 Tuen Mun-based routes and 3 Yuen Long-based routes to be operated by the new three-axle buses. KMB_has also reserved three additional tow trucks to cater for emergencies. [7]
As the evaluation of the bus-only lane trial scheme involved large-scale surveys and detailed analyses, the Government decided on 12 April 1995 to extend the trial period by three weeks, and the commencement of the bus-only lanes was postponed to 7:00 a.m. [8]. To reduce the impact on other road users, the Sham Tseng Interchange was re-opened on 12 June for private cars to access Tuen Mun Road on a trial basis[9], which meant that the bus-only lanes on Tuen Mun Road were shortened to terminate at Sham Tseng[10], with a total length of 8.5 km.
The Government originally estimated that the bus-only lanes would shorten bus journey time by about 15 minutes, thereby benefiting about 60,000 bus passengers per hour during peak hours. The results of the trial showed that bus journey time was saved by six minutes in the first two weeks of implementation, and only one to five minutes after five weeks. However, overall, the implementation of bus routes in Tuen Mun and Yuen Long has significantly improved the problem of lost trips. During the period when the two-hour bus routes were in force, about 680 franchised buses and 400 non-franchised buses were using the bus routes, with an estimated total number of more than 80,000 passengers benefiting from the bus routes[8]. In view of the positive results, the Administration decided to implement the bus-only lanes from 24 July 1995 on a long-term basis. [11]
Accidental rockfall at the construction site of a climbing lane in Tai Lam section[]
Just when the Climbing Lane project and the bus-only lanes were taking a two-pronged approach to improve the traffic situation on Tuen Mun Road, a boulder fell from the sky and became the beginning of a nightmare for hundreds of thousands of Tuen Mun residents.
In the evening of 18 August 1995, a boulder weighing about 10 to 15 tonnes fell from the exposed bedrock at the top of a 30-metre-high rocky slope at a climbing lane works site near Tai Lam on the Tsuen Wan-bound section of Tuen Mun Highway, striking a passing van and killing one driver and injuring one passenger [12]. Two weeks later, when Typhoon Kent hit Hong Kong on 30 August [13], the Highways Department inspected and declared that a total of five slopes on Tuen Mun Road were potentially hazardous and had to be repaired immediately.
For the sake of public safety, the Government decided to temporarily close all three lanes of Tuen Mun Road in the Tsuen Wan direction with effect from 31 August, and at the same time, Castle Peak Road in the Tsuen Wan direction was converted into a bus-only lane from Sam Shing Estate for buses and minibuses only, with the effective hours of 06:30-09:00 and 17:00-19:30[14]. KMB_also operates two temporary routes, namely 60P between Tuen Mun Central and Sheung Shui for passengers to interchange with the KCR East Rail to and from the urban area, and 39S between Tsuen Wan MTR Station and Tsuen Wan Ferry for residents to take the temporary ferry service between Tuen Mun and Tsuen Wan at a fare of $10 per adult for the ferry service.
The closure of Tuen Mun Road has seriously paralysed Tuen Mun's external traffic. Traffic queues extend along the Circular Road through Yuen Long, North District and Tai Po to Tolo Highway near Ma Liu Shui. Many residents have to arrive at the urban area at 9 am to go to work, and they even have to leave their homes as early as 5 am to catch the first bus to the urban area to avoid the most congested period in the morning; and many residents have even switched to take the Tuen Mun Ferry Pier - Central express ferry service, resulting in as many as 6,000 people queuing up outside the Tuen Mun Ferry Pier at one time during the morning peak hours. Worse still, the serious congestion problem caused by the closure of Tuen Mun Road affected the supply of food in Tuen Mun and disrupted the daily life of the 500 000 residents in the district. However, the then Assistant Commissioner for Transport, Lui Shung-yee (呂崇義), made a slip of the tongue at a press conference on 1 September, describing the closure as "God's will", and was criticised by Tuen Mun residents. [15]
From 4 September, designated vehicles, including buses, were allowed to access the section of Tuen Mun Road between Pui To Road and Sham Tseng in the Tsuen Wan direction, and finally all three lanes of Tuen Mun Road in the Tsuen Wan direction were re-opened on 10 September.
Resumption of work on the Tai Lam section taking several twists and turns[]
After the rock falling accident, the contractor responsible for the Tai Lam section of the project insisted that all Kowloon-bound carriageways must be closed in order to carry out the rock drilling works safely. As the Government found this proposal unacceptable, the contractor suspended work and invited an internationally renowned rock engineering expert to examine the slope and conduct an in-depth review of the construction method. The expert concluded that it was legally and physically impossible to carry out the remaining works of the Tai Lam section in accordance with the terms of the contract. The contractor subsequently approached the Administration in February 1996 for mediation. For this purpose, the Administration also appointed its own geotechnical consultant to obtain the necessary expert advice. The mediator finally accepted the contractor's evidence that it was not possible to carry out the works in strict compliance with the terms of the contract, in particular those relating to lane closure and work safety. [16]
Seeing that the completion of the Tai Lam section of the hill-climbing route was not on schedule, the Administration explored ways to complete the remaining works of the Tai Lam section in October 1996. One of the options was to switch to a seaward direction in order to avoid the need to cut the rocky slopes [17]. The Government also conducted a study to investigate the need to continue with the works to meet the increasing traffic demand at the Tai Lam section, which had already formed a bottleneck due to the suspension of the works and had undermined the effectiveness of the TMR climbing route.
The Government finalised the decision to continue the Tai Lam section after the opening of the Tai Lam Tunnel in 1998, with a view to minimising obstruction to traffic using Tuen Mun Road[18]. In view of this, the following temporary traffic arrangements on TMR were proposed to tackle the problem of deteriorating traffic congestion:[19]
- KMB_provided Routes 39S and 60P in response to demand;
- KMB_deployed more three-axle buses to increase capacity and used higher quality air-conditioned buses to serve Tuen Mun and Yuen Long routes, and the Victory II has since been completely eliminated from Tuen Mun Road;
- In late 1996, the Transport Department (TD) introduced two new green minibus (GMB) routes to provide feeder ferry services
- Tuen Mun Ferry Pier - Lingnan University, i.e. the existing Route 46
- Tuen Mun Ferry Pier - Sheung Shui KCR Station, i.e. the existing Route 44 series.
- Frequency on Light Rail was enhanced and more coupled-set trains were deployed;
- The Tai Lam Weigh Station became fully operational in September 1995 to facilitate Police enforcement action against overloading of goods vehicles;
- An additional temporary steel vehicular bridgewas constructed at Au Tau Roundabout of the New Territories Circular Road commenced in February 1996 and was completed six months later (the temporary bridge has been in use since then).[20]
Fireworks display at Lantau Link[]
To celebrate the completion of the Airport Core Programme transport network, the New Airport Projects Co-ordination Office (NAPCO) held a Lantau Link commissioning ceremony on 27 April 1997, which featured a fireworks display sponsored by Sun Hung Kai Properties Ltd. starting at 8:00 p.m. and lasting for about 20 minutes.
Drawing on the experience of the 1996 New Year's Eve Fireworks Display held at the Gold Coast which led to traffic chaos[21], a number of temporary traffic control measures were implemented in phases on Tuen Mun Road and Castle Peak Road on the day of the Lantau Link fireworks display:
- The whole of Castle Peak Road between Hoi On Road and Sham Tsz Street outside Garden Company, and the section of Castle Peak Road from Ma Wan Car Park to Tai Lam Chung Weigh Station were designated as a pedestrian precinct from 5:00 pm onwards;
- The section of Castle Peak Road from Sham Tsz Street to Ma Wan Carpark was designated as a bus-bus passenger area;
- When road closure was in force on Castle Peak Road, all bus routes travelling via the section of Castle Peak Road between Sam Shing Estate and Hoi On Road would terminate at locations at the fringe of the road closure area (i.e. Hoi On Road, Sham Tseng Interchange or Tai Lam Chung Weigh Station);
- Starting from 4:00 p.m., one lane on each direction of the section of Tuen Mun Road between Tai Lam and Hoi On Road was designated as bus-only lanes to facilitate buses travelling to and from the three specific bus stops on Castle Peak Road to pick up passengers;
- According to past experience, most motorists would drive slowly or even stop their vehicles to view the fireworks, posing potential danger to other vehicles. Therefore, the section of Tuen Mun Road between Hoi On Road and Siu Lam Interchange in both directions were closed from 7:30 pm until the fireworks display ends at 8.20 pm;
- After the fireworks display, KMB and KCR Bus would arrange 440 buses to operate the following four routes:
- KMB_Route 34S - Bayview Garden to Tsuen Wan MTR Station;
- KMB_Route 52S - Sham Tseng to Tuen Mun Central via Tuen Mun Road;
- KMB_Route 53S - Sham Tseng to Tsuen Wan MTR Station;
- KCR Bus Route Bus K3 - Tai Lam Chung Weigh Station to Tuen Mun Town Centre via Tuen Mun Road;
- It was estimated that buses would only be able to pick up 50,000 fireworks spectators within two hours after the Show. To speed up the evacuation of the crowd, the Kowloon-bound carriageway of the section of Castle Peak Road from Hoi On Road to Tsuen Wan would be designated as a pedestrianised area so that fireworks spectators may choose to walk to the Tsuen Wan MTR Station. The distance between the Tsuen Wan MTR Station and the closed area of Castle Peak Road is 3 kilometres and 8.5 kilometres respectively, and the walking time is about two hours;
- The frequency of the MTR and Light Rail would be increased and the service hours would be extended until all fireworks spectators have been evacuated;
- The ferry service between Sham Tseng and Ma Wan would be maintained as normal as possible;
- The frequency of ferry services betweenTsuen Wan and Central would also be increased if necessary.
Full rconstruction[]
The Ting Kau Bridge and Tai Lam Tunnel were opened on 8 May 1998 and 25 May 1998 respectively, diverting the extremely heavy traffic from Tuen Mun Road. However, Tuen Mun Road is free of charge and the volume of vehicular traffic is still very high, resulting in serious wear and tear of the road surface, with most of the at-grade sections having reached the end of their serviceable life. The annual maintenance cost of Tuen Mun Road is about $43 per square metre, which is about 22% higher than that of the neighbouring Yuen Long Highway and San Tin Highway. With the deterioration of Tuen Mun Road, it is not economical to carry out further maintenance. Moreover, Tuen Mun Road was built according to the design standards of the 1970s and is not fully compliant with the millennium expressway standards [22], and the traffic flow arising from the commissioning of the Hong Kong-Shenzhen Western Corridor is bound to increase the loading on Tuen Mun Road. [23][24]
In fact, the Government completed a preliminary review on the comprehensive reconstruction and improvement of TMR as early as May 1999, with construction scheduled to commence in 2005 for completion in 2010 [25]. By 2003, the Government planned to spend $2.6 billion to commence the project[26]; at the meeting of the Legislative Council Panel on Transport on 23 April 2004, in response to Members' suggestion, the Government agreed to review the feasibility of widening Tuen Mun Road from dual three-lane to dual four-lane during the detailed design stage of the project[27]; however, the four-lane project had lengthened the construction period considerably and doubled the expenditure to $5.5 billion, coupled with the fact that the construction period of the Tuen Mun Road had been extended by a considerable amount. The Sham Tseng Viaduct section involved a large amount of land resumption, and the plan to widen the whole section of the 4-lane project was eventually shelved.
After years of discussion and planning, the Government gazetted the Tuen Mun Road Reconstruction and Improvement project on 4 May 2007 at a cost of $3.3 billion[28], which was divided into two main parts, namely the reconstruction and improvement of the section between Tsuen Wan and Sam Shing Hui, and the widening of the carriageway of the Tuen Mun section. [29]
Tsuen Wan to Sam Shing Hui section[]
In April 2008, the Finance Committee of the Legislative Council approved the funding for the reconstruction and improvement of the section of Tuen Mun Road between Tsuen Wan and Sam Shing Hui. The reconstruction is divided into three sections, with the "Eastern Section" between Tsuen Wan and Tsing Lung Tau as the first contract, which commenced in October 2008; while works for the "Tai Lam Section" between Tsing Lung Tau and the Siu Lam Interchange commenced in February 2009, and those for the "Sam Shing Hui Section" between Siu Lam Interchange to Sam Shing Hui was awarded in late June of the same year and construction works commenced:
- Reconstruction of an at-grade section of about 13.4 kilometres between Tsuen Wan and Sam Shing Hui and resurfacing of a section of about 2.1 kilometres on the flyover along the section;
- Widening of each traffic lane to 3.65 metres with additional shoulders of the same width in both directions;
- Improvements to the merging and diverging lanes at Sham Tseng Interchange and Siu Lam Interchange;
- Widening of the exit of Ting Kau Bridge towards westbound Tuen Mun Road to dual two-lane;
- Retrofitting of noise barriers at seven residential road sections along Tuen Mun Road, including Kam Fai Garden, Tuen Mun Court, Hong Kong Garden, Sea Crest Villa, Rhine Garden, Yau Kom Tau, and Belvedere Garden to The Panorama.
To tie in with the commencement of the reconstruction works of various sections of Tuen Mun Road, the speed limit on certain sections of the road has been temporarily tightened to enhance the safety of road users and construction workers in two phases. In the first phase, which commenced on 19 February 2012, the speed limit of the round-trip section of Tuen Mun Road between Sham Tseng and Sam Shing Hui was reduced from 80 km/h to 70 km/h [30]. The second phase of tightening the speed limit on the round-trip section of TMR between Tsuen Wan and Ting Kau from 70 km/h to 50 km/h was implemented on 29 April of the same year. [31]
In view of the progress of the works, the temporary tightening of the speed limit on Tuen Mun Road between Tsuen Wan and Ting Kau was lifted on 12 October 2014[32] while the temporary tightening of the speed limit on Tuen Mun Road between Sham Tseng and Sam Shing Hui was lifted on 31 December immediately afterwards.[33]
Town Centre section[]
Noise barriers have been installed on the southbound section of Tuen Mun Road near Rose Garden, and the shelter of the bus stop has been removed
To relieve the traffic pressure on the Town Centre Section of TMR, the section of Tuen Mun Road near Tsing Tin Interchange was also widened from two-lane to three-lane. The Government gazetted the works on 3 August 2007[34] and the works commenced in June 2008 and were completed in January 2010.
The Government eventually implemented the widening of the Town Centre Section, which was gazetted on 18 April 2008[35] and the following works commenced in December the following year:
- Widening of about 1.5 kilometres of the section between Rose Garden and Wong Chu Road from a dual two-lane carriageway to a three-lane carriageway;
- To improve the smooth flow of traffic from Tuen Hing Road to Tuen Mun Road Kowloon-bound by eliminating the need to weave in and out of the lane, a single-lane flyover of about 450 metres in length would be constructed, extending from Tuen Hing Road along Chi Lok Fa Yuen to merge with the Tuen Mun Road Kowloon-bound carriageway opposite to Kam Fai Garden; and a new lane would be added in Tuen Mun-bound traffic;
- For the Tuen Mun Town Plaza section, due to the impact of the piles at the Tuen Mun Town Plaza and the close proximity of Tuen Fat Road and Tuen Hi Road to Tuen Mun Road, the widening works had narrowed the central median and created one new traffic lane in each direction.
The Tuen Mun Road improvement programme commenced in mid-2008 and all works were completed in late 2014. [36]
Exit locations[]
| Intersections of Tuen Mun Road (in descending order from north to south) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Exit no. | Intersection name | Connecting road(s) | Remarks |
 Yuen Long Highway
| |||
| 17 | Lam Tei Interchange | Castle Peak Road - Lingnan | Accessible to Fu Tei (Siu Hong Court and Fu Tai Estate) |
| 18 | Tsing Tin Interchange | Tsing Tin Road | Accessible to Tai Hing and Leung Tin |
| 19 | Pui To Road | Southbound only to San Hui and Town Centre | |
| San Tak Street | Northbound only, accessible to San Hui | ||
| 20 | Tuen Fat Road | Southbound only, accessible to Town Centre | |
| Tuen Hi Road | Northbound only, accessible to Town Centre | ||
| 20A | Tuen Hing Road | Northbound only, accessible to Town Centre, On Yau, Chi Lok | |
| 21 | Wong Chu Road | Accessible to Tuen Mun South (Butterfly Beach, River Trade Terminal, Lung Kwu Tan, Tung Chung, Airport, Zhuhai, Macao) | |
| 22 | Siu Lam Interchange | Castle Peak Road - Siu Lam | During the implementation of the bus-only lanes, no southbound slow lanes other than buses are allowed to be used, and the remaining southbound traffic on Castle Peak Road will need to go to Sham Tseng Interchange before returning to Tuen Mun Road |
| 23 | Sham Tseng Interchange | Castle Peak Road - Sham Tseng | |
| 24 | Ting Kau Interchange |  Ting Kau Bridge |
Southbound, connects to North West Tsing Yi Interchange |
| Tsing Long Highway |
Northbound, connects to Tai Lam Tunnel | ||
| 24A |  Tsuen Wan Road |
Accessible to the urban area, connecting to the end point of Route 5 | |
| Castle Peak Road - Tsuen Wan (connects to Cheung Pei Shan Road)
| |||
Bus interchange stops[]
Tuen Mun Road near Siu Lam Interchange, the construction of the Tuen Mun Road Interchange had not yet commenced at the time of photographing in 2011
- The main article of this section is Tuen Mun Road Bus-Bus Interchange.
After the opening of the KCR West Rail in December 2003, the congestion on Tuen Mun Road has improved considerably. The Transport Department (TD) conducted a number of surveys before and after the opening of the KCR to review the retention or otherwise of bus-only lanes [37]; as a result, the operating hours of bus-only lanes have been shortened to between 7:30 a.m. and 9:00 a.m. since 2004.[38]
To facilitate Tuen Mun residents to enjoy a more comprehensive bus service network, the Government implemented the construction of bus-bus interchanges (BBIs) at Siu Lam Interchange of Tuen Mun Road towards Tsuen Wan and near Tai Lam Kok towards Tuen Mun in 2009, and the construction works commenced in July 2010 [39]. KMB_announced in early December 2012 that the Tsuen Wan-bound BBI would be opened on 26 December, with nine route stops and Interchange concessions in the first phase, while the Tuen Mun-bound BBI would be opened on 27 July 2013.[40]
En-route bus stops[]
| List of bus stops on Tuen Mun Road | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Direction | KMB_en-route stop name | Location introduction | Remarks | |||
| Yuen Long Highway; Lam Tei Interchange (connecting Castle Peak Road - Lam Tei, Castle Peak Road - Lingnan)
| ||||||
| Tsing Tin Road | ||||||
| Two-way | Hung Kiu | Near Tseng Choi Street | ||||
| San Tak Street | ||||||
| Yuk Hong Street | ||||||
| Two-way | San Hui Market | Between San Hui Market and Rose Garden |
To tie in with the Tuen Mun Road Improvement Project, the southbound stop was decommissioned from 16 January 2011 for about two years[41], and was finally resumed on 19 May 2014.[42] | |||
| Pui To Road | ||||||
| Southbound | Tuen Yan Street Tuen Mun | Outside Tuen Mun Town Plaza Block 8 | ||||
| Tuen Hi Road/Tuen Fat Road | ||||||
| Tuen Hing Road | ||||||
| Wong Chu Road | ||||||
| Castle Peak Road - Tai Lam | ||||||
| Southbound[Remark 1] | Tuen Mun Road Bus-Bus Interchange | Near Siu Lam Interchange | ||||
| Northbound | near Tai Lam Kok Interchange | |||||
Note: There is no bus stop on Tuen Mun Road east of Tai Lam, so it is omitted.
Routes observed[]
Franchised buses/MTR Buses[]
| bus routes observing Tuen Mun Road | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operator | Route no. | Origin | Destination | Service type |
| The following routes pass through the whole of Tuen Mun Road[Remark 2][Remark 3] | ||||
| KMB | 68A | Long Ping Estate | Tsing Yi Station | Service daily, observes this stop in both directions ● |
| Tsing Yi Station | Long Ping Estate | |||
| The following routes pass through a section of Tuen Mun Road from Lam Tei Interchange/Yuen Long Highway to Tsuen Wan Road[Remark 2][Remark 3] | ||||
| Citybus | 50* | Tuen Mun (Ching Tin and Wo Tin) | Tsim Sha Tsui (Kowloon Station) | Outbound service Mondays to Fridays during morning, Saturdays and holidays during morning to afternoon non-peak hours ● |
| Tsim Sha Tsui (Kowloon Station) | Tuen Mun (Ching Tin and Wo Tin) | Inbound service Mondays to Fridays during afternoon peak hours to nighttime, Saturdays and holidays during afternoon to nighttime ● | ||
| KMB | 63X | Hung Shui Kiu (Hung Fuk Estate) | Jordan (West Kowloon Station) | Service daily, observes this stop in both directions ● |
| Jordan (West Kowloon Station) | Hung Shui Kiu (Hung Fuk Estate) | |||
| The following routes pass through a section of Tuen Mun Road from Lam Tei Interchange/Yuen Long Highway to Tsing Long Highway [Remark 2][Remark 3] | ||||
| Citybus | 55* | Tuen Mun (Ching Tin and Wo Tin) | Kwun Tong Ferry Pier | Outbound service Mondays to Fridays during morning peak hours, Saturdays and holidays during morning to afternoon non-peak hours ● |
| Kwun Tong Ferry Pier | Tuen Mun (Ching Tin and Wo Tin) | Inbound service Mondays to Fridays during afternoon peak hours, Saturdays and holidays during afternoon to nighttime ● | ||
| KMB | 258A# | Hung Shui Kiu (Hung Fuk Estate) | Lam Tin Station (One-way) |
Service Mondays to Fridays during morning peak hours, via Tin Ha Road and Hung Shui Kiu, one-way southbound ● |
| Citybus | 950* | Tuen Mun (Ching Tin and Wo Tin) | Exhibition Centre Station | Outbound service Mondays to Fridays during morning peak hours ● |
| Exhibition Centre Station | Tuen Mun (Ching Tin and Wo Tin) | Inbound service Mondays to Fridays during afternoon peak hours ● | ||
| Citybus | 955* | Tuen Mun (Ching Tin and Wo Tin) | Sai Wan Ho | Outbound service Mondays to Fridays during morning peak hours ● |
| Sai Wan Ho | Tuen Mun (Ching Tin and Wo Tin) | Inbound service Mondays to Fridays during afternoon peak hours ● | ||
| KMB | 960P | Hung Shui Kiu (Hung Yuen Road) | Causeway Bay (Victoria Park) | Outbound service Mondays to Saturdays during morning, holidays during after morning peak hours to noon ● |
| Causeway Bay | Hung Shui Kiu | Inbound service Mondays to Fridays during afternoon peak hours ● | ||
| KMB | 960X | Hung Shui Kiu (Hung Yuen Road) | Quarry Bay (King's Road) | Outbound Mondays to Fridays during morning peak hours, one-way southbound, detouring midway via Leung Tin ● |
| Citybus | N969 | Tin Shui Wai Town Centre | Causeway Bay (Moreton Terrace) | Service daily overnight, via Tuen Mun Town Centre, observes this stop in both directions ● |
| Causeway Bay (Moreton Terrace) | Tin Shui Wai Town Centre | |||
| The following routes pass through a section of Tuen Mun Road from Lam Tei Interchange/Yuen Long Highway to Wong Chu Road [Remark 2] | ||||
| LWB | A36* | Kam Sheung Road Station | Airport (Ground Transportation Centre) | Service daily, observes this stop in both directions ● |
| Airport (Ground Transportation Centre) | Kam Sheung Road Station | |||
| LWB | A37* | Long Ping Station | Airport (Ground Transportation Centre) | Outbound service daily ● |
| Airport (Ground Transportation Centre) | Long Ping Station | Inbound service daily after morning peak hours ● | ||
| LWB | E36* | Pat Heung Road | Airport (Ground Transportation Centre) | Service daily, observes this stop in both directions ● |
| Airport (Ground Transportation Centre) | Pat Heung Road | |||
| LWB | E36A | Tung Chung (Yat Tung) | Yuen Long (Tak Yip Street) | Service daily, one-way northbound ● |
| LWB | E37* | Tin Shui Wai Town Centre | Airport (Ground Transportation Centre) | Service daily, observes this stop in both directions ● |
| Airport (Ground Transportation Centre) | Tin Shui Wai Town Centre | |||
| LWB | E43* | Fanling (Wah Ming) | Tung Chung Development Pier | Outbound service Mondays to Fridays during morning peak hours ● |
| Tung Chung Development Pier | Fanling (Wah Ming) | Inbound service Mondays to Fridays during afternoon peak hours ● | ||
| LWB | NA36 | Cathay City | Kam Sheung Road Station | Outbound service daily overnight, via Tuen Mun Town Centre ● |
| Kam Sheung Road Station | Cathay City | Inbound service daily during early morning, via Tuen Mun Town Centre ● | ||
| LWB | NA37 | Cathay City | Tin Shui Wai Town Centre | Outbound service daily overnight ● |
| Tin Shui Wai Town Centre | Cathay City | Inbound service daily during early morning ● | ||
| The following routes pass through a section of Tuen Mun Road from Lam Tei Interchange/Yuen Long Highway to Pui To Road/Tuen Hi Road | ||||
| KMB | 261X | So Kwun Wat | Fanling (Cheung Wah) | Service daily during peak hours, observes this stop in both directions ● |
| Fanling (Cheung Wah) | So Kwun Wat | |||
| Citybus | B3 | Tuen Mun Ferry Pier | Shenzhen Bay Port | Service daily, observes this stop in both directions ● |
| Shenzhen Bay Port | Tuen Mun Ferry Pier | |||
| Citybus | B3M | Shenzhen Bay Port | ↺Tuen Mun Station | Service Saturdays and holidays during daytime after morning peak hours, observes this stop in both directions ● |
| ↺Tuen Mun Station | Shenzhen Bay Port | |||
| Citybus | B3X | Tuen Mun Town Centre | Shenzhen Bay Port | Service daily after morning peak hours, observes this stop in both directions ● |
| Shenzhen Bay Port | Tuen Mun Town Centre | |||
| KMB | B9 | Tuen Mun Station | Heung Yuen Wai Port (Liantang) | Outbound service Mondays to Fridays during daytime after morning peak hours, Saturdays and holidays whole-day ● |
| Heung Yuen Wai Port (Liantang) | Tuen Mun Station | Inbound service Mondays to Fridays after morning peak hours, Saturdays and holidays whole-day ● | ||
| LWB | E36A | Yuen Long (Tak Yip Street) | Tung Chung (Yat Tung) | Service daily, one-way southbound, also passes through a section from Tuen Hing Road to Wong Chu Road ● |
| LWB | E37C | Tin Shui Wai Town Centre | Aircraft Maintenance Area | Outbound service Mondays to Fridays during early morning, via Tuen Mun Central and On Yau ● |
| Aircraft Maintenance Area | Tin Shui Wai Town Centre | Inbound service Mondays to Fridays during afternoon peak hours to nighttime, via Tuen Mun Central and On Yau ● | ||
| MTR Bus | K54 | Wo Tin Estate | ↺Tuen Mun Town Centre | Service daily, via Siu Hong Station, observes this stop in both directions ● |
| ↺Tuen Mun Town Centre | Wo Tin Estate | |||
| LWB | N30 | Airport (Cheong Tat Road) | Yuen Long Station | Outbound service daily overnight, via Tin Shui Wai and Tuen Mun ● |
| Yuen Long Station | Airport (Cheong Tat Road) | Inbound service daily during early morning, via Tin Shui Wai and Tuen Mun ● | ||
| KMB | N260 | Tuen Mun Pier Head | Mei Foo | Service daily overnight, observes this stop in both directions, also passes through a section from Wong Chu Road to Castle Peak Road - Tsuen Wan ● |
| Mei Foo | Tuen Mun Pier Head | |||
| The following routes pass through a section of Tuen Mun Road from Yuen Long Highway to Tsing Tin Road | ||||
| KMB | 261S | Tuen Mun (Po Tin Estate) | Sheung Shui (Tin Ping) (One-way) |
Service Mondays to Fridays during morning peak hours, one-way northbound ● |
| The following routes pass through a section of Tuen Mun Road from Tsing Tin Road to Castle Peak Road - Tsuen Wan [Remark 2][Remark 3] | ||||
| KMB | 58M | Tuen Mun (Leung King Estate) | Kwai Fong Station | Service daily, observes this stop in both directions ● |
| Kwai Fong Station | Tuen Mun (Leung King Estate) | |||
| KMB | 58P* | Kwai Fong Station | Tin King Estate (Tin Yue House) (One-way) |
Service Mondays to Saturdays during afternoon peak hours, Non-stopTuen Mun Town Centre and San Hui, one-way northbound ● |
| The following routes pass through a section of Tuen Mun Road from Tsing Tin Road to Tsuen Wan Road[Remark 2][Remark 3] | ||||
| KMB | 58X# | Tuen Mun (Leung King Estate) | Mong Kok East Station | Service daily, observes this stop in both directions ● |
| Mong Kok East Station | Tuen Mun (Leung King Estate) | |||
| KMB | 58X# Special Trips |
Tuen Mun (Kin Sang Estate) | Mong Kok East Station (One-way) |
Service Mondays to Fridays during morning peak hours, one-way southbound ● |
| The following routes pass through a section of Tuen Mun Road from Tsing Tin Road to Tsing Long Highway[Remark 2][Remark 3] | ||||
| KMB | 258S*# | Tuen Mun (Shan King Estate) | Lam Tin Station (One-way) |
Service Mondays to Saturdays during morning peak hours, one-way southbound ● |
| KMB | 260X | Tuen Mun (Po Tin Estate) | Hung Hom Station | Service daily, observes this stop in both directions ● |
| Hung Hom Station | Tuen Mun (Po Tin Estate) | |||
| KMB | 960 | Tuen Mun (Kin Sang Estate) | Exhibition Centre Station | Service daily, observes this stop in both directions ● |
| Exhibition Centre Station | Tuen Mun (Kin Sang Estate) | |||
| KMB | 960A | Central | Hung Shui Kiu (Hung Fuk Estate) (One-way) |
Service Mondays to Fridays during afternoon peak hours, one-way northbound ● |
| KMB | 960C | Tuen Mun (Fu Tai Estate) | Causeway Bay (Victoria Park) | Outbound service Mondays to Fridays during morning peak hours, via Leung Tin ● |
| Causeway Bay | Fu Tai Estate | Inbound service Mondays to Fridays during afternoon peak hours, via Leung Tin ● | ||
| KMB | 960X | Quarry Bay (King's Road) | Hung Shui Kiu | Inbound Mondays to Fridays during afternoon peak hours, one-way northbound ● |
| KMB | N960 | Exhibition Centre Station | Tuen Mun (Kin Sang Estate) | Outbound service daily overnight ● |
| Tuen Mun (Kin Sang Estate) | Exhibition Centre Station | Inbound service daily during early morning ● | ||
| KMB | P960 | Siu Hong Station (North) | Exhibition Centre Station | Outbound service Mondays to Fridays during morning ● |
| Exhibition Centre Station | Siu Hong Station (North) | Inbound service Mondays to Fridays during afternoon to nighttime ● | ||
| The following routes pass through a section of Tuen Mun Road from Tuen Hing Road to Castle Peak Road - Tsuen Wan[Remark 3] | ||||
| KMB | 67A | Tuen Mun (Po Tin Estate) | Kwai Fong (Kwai Tsui Estate) | Service daily, observes this stop in both directions ● |
| Kwai Fong (Kwai Tsui Estate) | Tuen Mun (Po Tin Estate) | |||
| KMB | 67M | Tuen Mun (Siu Hong Court) | Kwai Fong Station | Service daily, observes this stop in both directions ● |
| Kwai Fong Station | Tuen Mun (Siu Hong Court) | |||
| KMB | 260C# | Tuen Mun (Sam Shing) | Kwai Fong Station | Outbound service Mondays to Fridays during morning peak hours ● |
| Kwai Fong Station | Tuen Mun (Sam Shing) | Inbound service Mondays to Fridays during afternoon peak hours ● | ||
| KMB | 868# | Tuen Mun Central | Shatin Racecourse | Outbound service during admission at Sha Tin Racecourse on holidays ● |
| Shatin Racecourse | Tuen Mun Central | Inbound service during dismissal at Sha Tin Racecourse ● | ||
| The following routes pass through a section of Tuen Mun Road from Tuen Hing Road to Tsuen Wan Road[Remark 3] | ||||
| KMB | 67X | Tuen Mun (Siu Hong Court) | Mong Kok East Station | Service daily, observes this stop in both directions ● |
| Mong Kok East Station | Tuen Mun (Siu Hong Court) | |||
| The following routes pass through a section of Tuen Mun Road from Tuen Hing Road to Tsing Long Highway[Remark 3] | ||||
| KMB | 258P# | Hung Shui Kiu (Hung Fuk Estate) | Lam Tin Station | Outbound service Mondays to Saturdays during morning ● |
| Lam Tin Station | Hung Tin Road (Hung Fuk Estate) | Inbound service Mondays to Saturdays during afternoon to nighttime ● | ||
| KMB | 267X# | Tuen Mun (Siu Hong Court) | Lam Tin Station | Outbound service Mondays to Fridays during morning peak hours ● |
| Lam Tin Station | Tuen Mun (Siu Hong Court) | Inbound service Mondays to Fridays during afternoon peak hours ● | ||
| KMB | 960S | Tuen Mun (Fu Tai Estate) | Causeway Bay (Victoria Park) | Outbound service Mondays to Saturdays during morning peak hours, via Prime View Garden ● |
| Causeway Bay | Tuen Mun (Fu Tai Estate) | Inbound service Mondays to Fridays during afternoon peak hours, via Prime View Garden ● | ||
| KMB | 961P | Tuen Mun (Leung King Estate) | Causeway Bay (Victoria Park) (One-way) |
Service Mondays to Fridays during morning peak hours, via Tuen Mun Central, one-way southbound ● |
| Citybus | 962C# | Tuen Mun (Lung Mun Oasis) | Tai Koo (Kornhill Plaza) | Outbound service Mondays to Fridays during morning peak hours ● |
| Quarry Bay (Sunway Gardens) | Tuen Mun (Lung Mun Oasis) | Inbound service Mondays to Fridays during afternoon peak hours ● | ||
| Citybus | 962X | Tuen Mun (Lung Mun Oasis) | Causeway Bay (Moreton Terrace) | Service Mondays to Saturdays after morning peak hours, holidays whole-day, observes this stop in both directions ● |
| Causeway Bay (Moreton Terrace) | Tuen Mun (Lung Mun Oasis) | |||
| The following routes pass through a section of Tuen Mun Road from Tuen Hing Road to Wong Chu Road | ||||
| LWB | A33 | Tuen Mun Road BBI | Airport (Ground Transportation Centre) | Service daily, via Tuen Mun Pier Head, observes this stop in both directions ● |
| Airport (Ground Transportation Centre) | Tuen Mun Road BBI | |||
| LWB | E36A | Yuen Long (Tak Yip Street) | Tung Chung (Yat Tung) | Service daily, one-way southbound, also passes through a section from Yuen Long Highway to Pui To Road ● |
| The following routes pass through a section of Tuen Mun Road from Wong Chu Road to Castle Peak Road - Tsuen Wan[Remark 3] | ||||
| KMB | 57M | Tuen Mun (Shan King Estate) | Lai King (North) | Service daily, observes this stop in both directions ● |
| Lai King (North) | Tuen Mun (Shan King Estate) | |||
| KMB | 59A# | Tuen Mun Pier Head | Kwai Fong (Kwai Tsui Estate) | Outbound service Mondays to Fridays daytime ● |
| Kwai Fong (Kwai Tsui Estate) | Tuen Mun Pier Head | Inbound service Mondays to Fridays during daytime after morning peak hours ● | ||
| KMB | 59M | Tuen Mun Pier Head | Tsuen Wan Station | Service daily, observes this stop in both directions ● |
| Tsuen Wan Station | Tuen Mun Pier Head | |||
| KMB | 60M | Tuen Mun Station | Tsuen Wan Station | Service daily, observes this stop in both directions ● |
| Tsuen Wan Station | Tuen Mun Station | |||
| KMB | 66M | Tuen Mun (Tai Hing Estate) | Tsuen Wan (Nina Tower) | Service daily, observes this stop in both directions ● |
| Tsuen Wan (Nina Tower) | Tuen Mun (Tai Hing Estate) | |||
| KMB | 259E | Tuen Mun (Lung Mun Oasis) | Tsuen Wan Station (One-way) |
Service Mondays to Fridays during morning peak hours, one-way southbound ● |
| KMB | 263 | Tuen Mun Station | Sha Tin Station | Service daily, observes this stop in both directions ● |
| Sha Tin Station | Tuen Mun Station | |||
| KMB | 263A | Tuen Mun Station | Hong Kong Science Park | Outbound service Mondays to Fridays during morning peak hours ● |
| Hong Kong Science Park | Tuen Mun Station | Inbound service Mondays to Fridays during afternoon peak hours ● | ||
| KMB | 263B | Tuen Mun Station | Fo Tan (Shan Mei Street) | Outbound service Mondays to Fridays during morning peak hours ● |
| Fo Tan (Shan Mei Street) | Tuen Mun Station | Inbound service Mondays to Fridays during afternoon peak hours ● | ||
| KMB | 263C | The Education University of Hong Kong | Tuen Mun Station | Service Mondays to Fridays during peak hours, observes this stop in both directions ● |
| Tuen Mun Station | The Education University of Hong Kong | |||
| KMB | N260 | Tuen Mun Pier Head | Mei Foo | Service daily overnight, observes this stop in both directions, also passes through a section from Lam Tei Interchange to Pui To Road/Tuen Hi Road ● |
| Mei Foo | Tuen Mun Pier Head | |||
| The following routes pass through a section of Tuen Mun Road from Wong Chu Road to Tsuen Wan Road[Remark 3] | ||||
| KMB | 59X | Tuen Mun Pier Head | Mong Kok East Station | Service daily, observes this stop in both directions ● |
| Mong Kok East Station | Tuen Mun Pier Head | |||
| KMB | 60X | Tuen Mun Central | Jordan (West Kowloon Station) | Service daily, observes this stop in both directions ● |
| Jordan (West Kowloon Station) | Tuen Mun Central | |||
| KMB | 66X | Tuen Mun (Tai Hing Estate) | Olympic Station | Service daily, observes this stop in both directions ● |
| Olympic Station | Tuen Mun (Tai Hing Estate) | |||
| KMB | 259B# | Tuen Mun Pier Head | Tsim Sha Tsui (One-way) |
Service Mondays to Fridays during morning peak hours, one-way southbound ● |
| KMB | 259C# | Sun Tuen Mun Centre | Tsim Sha Tsui (One-way) |
Service Mondays to Fridays during morning peak hours, one-way southbound ● |
| KMB | 260B# | Tuen Mun Central | Tsim Sha Tsui (One-way) |
Service Mondays to Fridays during morning peak hours, one-way southbound ● |
| The following routes pass through a section of Tuen Mun Road from Wong Chu Road to Tsing Long Highway [Remark 3] | ||||
| KMB | 61X | Tuen Mun Central | Kowloon City Ferry | Service daily, observes this stop in both directions ● |
| Kowloon City Ferry | Tuen Mun Central | |||
| KMB | 62P# | Tuen Mun Central | Lei Yue Mun Estate (One-way) |
Service Mondays to Saturdays during morning peak hours, one-way southbound ● |
| KMB | 62X | Siu Hong Station (South) | Lei Yue Mun Estate | Outbound service Mondays to Saturdays after morning peak hours, holidays whole-day ● |
| Lei Yue Mun Estate | Siu Hong Station (South) | Inbound service daily ● | ||
| KMB | 258D | Tuen Mun (Po Tin Estate) | Lam Tin Station | Service daily, observes this stop in both directions ● |
| Lam Tin Station | Tuen Mun (Po Tin Estate) | |||
| KMB | 258X | Tuen Mun (Po Tin Estate) | Kwun Tong Ferry | Outbound service Mondays to Fridays during morning peak hours ● |
| Kwun Tong Ferry | Tuen Mun (Po Tin Estate) | Inbound service Mondays to Fridays during afternoon peak hours ● | ||
| KMB | 259D | Tuen Mun (Lung Mun Oasis) | Lei Yue Mun Estate | Service daily, observes this stop in both directions ● |
| Lei Yue Mun Estate | Tuen Mun (Lung Mun Oasis) | |||
| KMB | 259S | Tuen Mun (Lung Mun Oasis) | Kwun Tong Ferry | Outbound Mondays to Fridays during morning peak hours, via Tuen Mun Town Centre, one-way southbound ● |
| KMB | 259X | Tuen Mun (Lung Mun Oasis) | Kwun Tong Ferry | Outbound service Mondays to Fridays during morning peak hours ● |
| Kwun Tong Ferry | Tuen Mun (Lung Mun Oasis) | Inbound service Mondays to Fridays during afternoon peak hours ● | ||
| KMB | 960B | Tuen Mun (Kin Sang Estate) | Quarry Bay (King's Road) | Outbound service Mondays to Fridays during morning peak hours ● |
| Quarry Bay (King's Road) | Tuen Mun (Kin Sang Estate) | Inbound service Mondays to Fridays during afternoon peak hours ● | ||
| KMB | 961 | Tuen Mun (Shan King Estate) | Wan Chai (HKCEC) | Service daily, observes this stop in both directions ● |
| Wan Chai (HKCEC) | Tuen Mun (Shan King Estate) | |||
| KMB | 961S | Tuen Mun (Leung King Estate) | Causeway Bay (Victoria Park) (One-way) |
Service Mondays to Fridays during morning peak hours, via Tsing Wun Road, one-way southbound ● |
| Citybus | 962A# | Tuen Mun (Yuet Wu Villa) | Admiralty (One-way) |
Service Mondays to Saturdays during morning peak hours, one-way southbound ● |
| Citybus | 962G | Causeway Bay (Moreton Terrace) | Tuen Mun (Yuet Wu Villa) (One-way) |
Service Mondays to Fridays during afternoon peak hours, direct to San Shek Wan after Wan Chai, one-way northbound ● |
| Citybus | 962P | Tuen Mun (Lung Mun Oasis) | Causeway Bay (Moreton Terrace) (One-way) |
Service Mondays to Saturdays during morning peak hours, one-way southbound ● |
| Citybus | X962 | Admiralty (West) | Tuen Mun (Lung Mun Oasis) (One-way) |
Service Mondays to Fridays during afternoon peak hours, one-way northbound ● |
| The following routes pass through a section of Tuen Mun Road from Siu Lam Interchange to Castle Peak Road - Tsuen Wan | ||||
| KMB | 61M | Tuen Mun (Hoi Wing Road) | Lai King (North) | Service daily, observes this stop in both directions ● |
| Lai King (North) | Tuen Mun (Hoi Wing Road) | |||
| The following routes pass through a section of Tuen Mun Road from Siu Lam Interchange to Tsuen Wan Road | ||||
| KMB | 61P | So Kwun Wat | Tsuen Wan Station | Outbound service Mondays to Fridays during morning peak hours ● |
| Tsuen Wan Station | So Kwun Wat | Inbound service Mondays to Fridays during afternoon peak hours ● | ||
| Template:KMB_252B doesn't exist! | ||||
| The following routes pass through a section of Tuen Mun Road from Siu Lam Interchange to Tsing Long Highway | ||||
| KMB | 252X | Handsome Court | Lam Tin Station | Outbound service Mondays to Fridays during morning peak hours ● |
| Lam Tin Station | Tuen Mun (Chi Lok Fa Yuen) | Inbound service Mondays to Fridays during afternoon peak hours ● | ||
| Citybus | 952P | Tuen Mun (Chi Lok Fa Yuen) | Causeway Bay (Moreton Terrace) (One-way) |
Service Mondays to Saturdays during morning peak hours, via Gold Coast, one-way southbound ● |
| Citybus | 962 | Tuen Mun (Lung Mun Oasis) | Causeway Bay (Moreton Terrace) | Outbound service Mondays to Saturdays during early morning, via Gold Coast ● |
| Causeway Bay (Moreton Terrace) | Tuen Mun (Lung Mun Oasis) | Inbound service Saturdays during peak hours, holidays during morning peak hours, via Gold Coast ● | ||
| Citybus | N962 | Tuen Mun (Lung Mun Oasis) | Causeway Bay (Moreton Terrace) | Service daily overnight, via Gold Coast, observes this stop in both directions ● |
| Causeway Bay (Moreton Terrace) | Tuen Mun (Lung Mun Oasis) | |||
| The following routes pass through a section of Tuen Mun Road from Sham Tseng Interchange to Castle Peak Road - Tsuen Wan | ||||
| KMB | 234A | Sham Tseng (Sea Crest Villa) | Tsuen Wan West Station | Service daily, via Tuen Mun Road, observes this stop in both directions ● |
| Tsuen Wan West Station | Sham Tseng (Sea Crest Villa) | |||
| The following routes pass through a section of Tuen Mun Road from Sham Tseng Interchange to Tsuen Wan Road | ||||
| KMB | 52X | Tuen Mun Central | Mong Kok (Park Avenue) | Service daily, observes this stop in both directions ● |
| Mong Kok (Park Avenue) | Tuen Mun Central | |||
| KMB | 261B | Tuen Mun (Sam Shing Estate) | Kowloon Station (One-way) |
Service Mondays to Saturdays during morning peak hours, via Sham Tseng, one-way southbound ● |
| The following routes pass through a section of Tuen Mun Road from Sham Tseng Interchange to Tsing Long Highway | ||||
| Citybus | 952 | Tuen Mun (Chi Lok Fa Yuen) | Causeway Bay (Moreton Terrace) [Remark 4] | Outbound service daily ● |
| Causeway Bay (Moreton Terrace) | Tuen Mun (Chi Lok Fa Yuen) | Inbound service Mondays to Saturdays after morning peak hours, holidays whole-day ● | ||
| Citybus | 952C | So Kwun Wat | Tai Koo (Kornhill Plaza) | Outbound service Mondays to Fridays during morning peak hours ● |
| Quarry Bay (Sunway Gardens) | So Kwun Wat | Inbound service Mondays to Fridays during afternoon peak hours ● | ||
| LWB | A38 | Tsuen Wan (Allway Gardens) | Airport (Ground Transportation Centre) | Service daily, observes this stop in both directions ● |
| Airport (Ground Transportation Centre) | Tsuen Wan (Allway Gardens) | |||
| Citybus | N952 | Causeway Bay (Moreton Terrace) | Tuen Mun (Chi Lok Fa Yuen) | Outbound service daily overnight ● |
| Tuen Mun (Chi Lok Fa Yuen) | Causeway Bay (Moreton Terrace) | Inbound service daily during early morning ● | ||
| The following routes pass through a section of Tuen Mun Road from Tsing Long Highway to Castle Peak Road - Tsuen Wan | ||||
| KMB | 68M | Yuen Long (West) | Tsuen Wan Station | Service daily, observes this stop in both directions ● |
| Tsuen Wan Station | Yuen Long (West) | |||
| KMB | 69M | Tin Shui Wai Town Centre | Kwai Fong Station | Service daily, observes this stop in both directions ● |
| Kwai Fong Station | Tin Shui Wai Town Centre | |||
| KMB | 69P | Tin Shui Wai Station | Kwai Fong Station (One-way) |
Service Mondays to Fridays during morning peak hours, one-way southbound ● |
| KMB | 251M | Sheung Tsuen | Tsuen Wan Station (One-way) |
Service Mondays to Fridays during morning peak hours, one-way southbound ● |
| KMB | 265M | Tin Heng Estate | Kwai Chung (Lai Yiu Estate) | Service daily, observes this stop in both directions ● |
| Kwai Chung (Lai Yiu Estate) | Tin Heng Estate | |||
| Template:KMB_269A doesn't exist! | ||||
| Template:KMB_269D doesn't exist! | ||||
| Template:KMB_269M doesn't exist! | ||||
| Template:KMB_269P doesn't exist! | ||||
| Template:KMB_N269 doesn't exist! | ||||
| The following routes pass through a section of Tuen Mun Road from Tsing Long Highway to Tsuen Wan Road | ||||
| Template:KMB_68X doesn't exist! | ||||
| Template:KMB_69X doesn't exist! | ||||
| Template:KMB_265B doesn't exist! | ||||
| Template:KMB_268M doesn't exist! | ||||
| Template:KMB_268X doesn't exist! | ||||
| Template:KMB_269X doesn't exist! | ||||
| Template:KMB_279B doesn't exist! | ||||
| Template:CHT N368 doesn't exist! | ||||
Green minibuses (GMBs)[]
| Green minibus (GMB) routes observing on Tuen Mun Road | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operator | Route no. | Origin | Destination | Service type |
| The following routes pass through a section of Tuen Mun Road from Lam Tei Interchange/Yuen Long Highway to Tsuen Wan Road[Remark 2] | ||||
| Template:NTGMB 606S doesn't exist! | ||||
| The following routes pass through a section of Tuen Mun Road from Lam Tei Interchange/Yuen Long Highway to Pui To Road | ||||
| Template:NTGMB 44 doesn't exist! | ||||
| Template:NTGMB 44B1 doesn't exist! | ||||
| The following routes pass through a section of Tuen Mun Road from San Tak Street to Tuen Hi Road | ||||
| Template:NTGMB 46X doesn't exist! | ||||
| The following routes pass through a section of Tuen Mun Road from Tuen Hing Road to Tsuen Wan Road | ||||
| Template:NTGMB 47S doesn't exist! | ||||
| Template:NTGMB 48S doesn't exist! | ||||
| Template:NTGMB 610S doesn't exist! | ||||
| The following routes pass through a section of Tuen Mun Road from Wong Chu Road to Castle Peak Road - Tsuen Wan | ||||
| Template:NTGMB 49S doesn't exist! | ||||
| The following routes pass through a section of Tuen Mun Road from Wong Chu Road to Tsuen Wan Road | ||||
| Template:NTGMB 47S doesn't exist! | ||||
| The following routes pass through a section of Tuen Mun Road from Siu Lam Interchange to Tsing Long Highway | ||||
| Template:NTGMB 140M doesn't exist! | ||||
| The following routes pass through a section of Tuen Mun Road from Sham Tseng Interchange to Tsing Long Highway | ||||
| Template:NTGMB 308A doesn't exist! | ||||
| Template:NTGMB 308M doesn't exist! | ||||
Accidents[]
Tuen Mun Road is winding and steep, and a number of serious traffic accidents and incidents have occurred over the years:
- 23 August 1981: An ambulance collided with a KMB_Route 66M Leyland Victory II bus bound for Tai Hing Estate after crashing through the central crash barrier in Sham Tseng, and exploded and burnt fiercely. Except for one ambulanceman who was rescued by a female foreign tourist, the other three ambulancemen and the patient died at the scene, and 29 people on the bus were injured, and a stone monument was erected next to the Sham Tseng Interchange. A buddhist stone monument inscripting "Mantra Amitabha" (喃嘸阿彌陀佛) was erected next to the Sham Tseng Interchange, whereas the bus was subsequently decommissioned.
- 14 November 1982: Three traffic accidents occurred in one day, resulting in 4 deaths and over 100 injuries. One of which was in the evening that a fully loaded KMB_Route 60M Leyland Victory II bus bound for Tuen Mun crashed into a hillside to the right near Ka Loon Tsuen. The bus rolled over twice on the ground, then rolled onto its left side and skidded for several tens of metres before coming to a halt in front of a slope, resulting in one death and 109 injuries. The bus was later decommissioned.
- 10 July 2003: At about 6:30 a.m., a KMB_Route 265M bus carrying 40 passengers was travelling from Lai Yiu to Tin Heng Estate; when it reached the slip road of Tuen Mun Road near the Tai Lam Tunnel, a container truck travelling along the central lane suddenly cut across the road and lost control, hitting the bus travelling in the slow lane. The whole bus was crashed close to the side of the bridge and swept away a section of railings, and then plunged 35 metres into the hillside beside Ting Kau Estate, killing 21 people and injuring 20 others, making it the highest number of casualties in a land transport accident to date. The bus was subsequently decommissioned. For details of the incident, please refer to the article 2003 KMB_Route 265M Bus Falling Accident.
- 30 November 2013: A screw was exposed on a bridge expansion joint at the Tuen Mun Road section near Yau Kom Tau in the Tuen Mun direction, resulting in tyre damage to more than 50 heavy vehicles, including 36 KMB_buses (most of the buses involved were mainly Volvo Super Olympians, Dennis Tridents and Enviro500 MMCs) and one Citybus non-franchised Leyland Olympian (180/FC3474), which were driven through the site at around 7.30am to 10.00am. The incident caused serious disruption to westbound traffic on Tuen Mun Road; according to KMB, the series of tyre bursts resulted in 40 bus trips not being able to operate, affecting 25,000 passengers and requiring the replacement of 58 tyres for the 36 buses[43]. Upon receipt of the report, Highways Department (HyD) immediately closed the slow lane and the Central Link for emergency repairs, and also inspected other expansion joints on Ting Kau Viaduct and Yau Kom Tau Viaduct on the same day, and did not find any similar problems. According to the records of the HyD, cases similar to this one in which a number of vehicle tyres were damaged due to exposed screws are very rare and seldom happened in the past. HyD will learn from the experience of this incident and pay more attention to the condition of expansion joints on bridge decks when supervising contractors' maintenance and inspection of highway facilities in future. [44]
Gallery[]
Remarks[]
- ↑ Although this section of TMR is an east-west expressway, KMB's publicised information on BBI schemes shows southbound stops in the direction of Kowloon; and on the Highways Department's layout plan of Tuen Mun Road BBIs (note that the upper left of the plan shows north), the front of the buses are also oriented towards the south-south-east (Route 61M is in the opposite direction).
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Except routes denoted with *, all the relevant routes between Pui To Road and Tuen Hing Road are diverted via Tuen Fat Road for urban direction and Tuen Hi Road for New Territories direction.
- ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 Except routes denoted with #, all the relevant routes all stop at Tuen Mun Road Bus-Bus Interchange.
- ↑ Only services towards Admiralty (West) are provided during Monday to Friday morning peak hours.
Related Articles[]
- Castle Peak Road
- Wong Chu Road
- Tsing Tin Road
- Yuen Long Highway
- Ting Kau Bridge
- Tsuen Wan Road
- Route 3 (Strategic Route)
References[]
- ↑ 屯門公路, c.1982 (Tuen Mun Road c. 1982), posted to "屯門舊照片Tuen Mun Old Photos" Facebook page.
- ↑ 《工程人生: 香港基建五十年》(A Life in Engineering: 50 Years of Infrastructure in Hong Kong) Chapter 7
- ↑ Gazette No. 262, Hong Kong Government Gazette, vol. 121, No. 4, 26 January 1979
- ↑ 鏗鏘集- 此路不通(節錄) (4/10/1992) (The Common Sense - No through road (excerpt)), YouTube
- ↑ Improvement to Tuen Mun Road and associated temporary traffic measures at Sam Shing Hui and So Kwun Wat, Transport Panel, Legislative Council, 30 November 1995
- ↑ Proposed bus-only lanes on Tuen Mun Road, Panel on Transport, Legislative Council, March 1995
- ↑ Bus-only lane on Tuen Mun Road, Panel on Transport, Legislative Council, 9 March 1995
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Bus-only lane on Tuen Mun Road, Legislative Council Panel on Transport, 11 May 1995
- ↑ Bus-only lane on Tuen Mun Road, Legislative Council Panel on Transport, 13 July 1995
- ↑ Revision of Tuen Mun Road Bus-Only Lane Scheme, Hong Kong Government Press Release, 8 June 1995
- ↑ Long-term implementation of bus-only lanes on Tuen Mun Road, Hong Kong Government Information Bulletin, 17 July 1995
- ↑ Report of the Panel on Transport and Panel on Planning, Lands and Works, Legislative Council, 21 November 1995
- ↑ "颱風肯特(1995)襲港回顧" (Typhoon Kent (1995) Review), Hong Kong Severe Weather Centre Database
- ↑ YouTube: 亞洲電視本港台十一點新聞 (ATV 11pm News), 1 September 1995.
- ↑ YouTube: 無缐1995年9月1日屯門公路封閉大塞車 (TVB News 1 Sep 1995 - Congestion due to Tuen Mun Road closure), 10 September 1995
- ↑ Tuen Mun Road widening work mediation case, Panel on Transport, Legislative Council, 23 October 1996
- ↑ Tentative Schedule for Completion of Remaining Works at the Tai Lam Section, Panel on Transport, Legislative Council, December 1996
- ↑ Tuen Mun Road widening work mediation case and latest developments of the project, Panel on Transport, Legislative Council, 9 May 1997
- ↑ Transport and traffic problems on Tuen Mun Road, Legislative Council Task Force, November 1995
- ↑ Part 4: Improvement to Tuen Mun Road, Report No. 43 of the Director of Audit - Chapter 10 Road Improvement Works, October 2004
- ↑ 煙火匯演大封路屯門居民噩夢 (Nightmare for Tuen Mun residents as fireworks display closes down roads), Oriental Daily News, 18 September 2009
- ↑ Reconstruction and Improvement of Tuen Mun Road and Widening of Tuen Mun Road at Tsing Tin Interchange, Legislative Council Panel on Transport, 28 January 2008.
- ↑ Legislative Council Panel on Transport: Traffic Impact on Tuen Mun Road upon the Commissioning of Hong Kong – Shenzhen Western Corridor and Deep Bay Link, 29 January 2004.
- ↑ Bills Committee on Shenzhen Bay Port Hong Kong Port Area Bill - Background brief prepared by the Legislative Council Secretariat - Traffic and transport arrangements upon the commissioning of the Hong Kong-Shenzhen Western Corridor and its impact on traffic in Northwest New Territories, LC Paper No. CB(2)1452/06-07(01)
- ↑ 屯門公路的重建和改善工程, Legislative Council Panel on Transport, April 2001.
- ↑ 重建工程七年後始完成 (Reconstruction to be completed only after 7 years), Apple Daily, 11 July 2003.
- ↑ Legislative Council Panel on Transport: Reconstruction and Improvement of Tuen Mun Road, 18 March 2005
- ↑ 重建耗33億 擴路面 防噪音 屯門公路廣布偵速儀, Apple Daily, 5 May 2007
- ↑ LCQ2: Commissioning of Tuen Mun-Chek Lap Kok Link and Tuen Mun Western Bypass and Tuen Mun Road Improvement Project, 23 November 2011.
- ↑ HKSARG, "Tuen Mun Road speed limit to be temporarily reduced from February 19", [Press release], 10 February 2012.
- ↑ HKSARG, "Speed limit along Tuen Mun Road (Tsuen Wan and Ting Kau section) to be temporarily reduced from April 29", [Press release], 20 April 2012.
- ↑ "屯門公路荃灣至汀九段車速限制回復70公里" (Speed limit on Tuen Mun Road between Tsuen Wan and Ting Kau resumes to 70km/h), Oriental Daily News, 10 October 2014.
- ↑ "屯門公路深井至三聖墟段周三恢復限速80公里" (Speed limit on Tuen Mun Road between Sham Tseng and Sam Shing Hui resumes to 80km/h), Oriental Daily News, 29 December 2014.
- ↑ Widening of Tuen Mun Road at Tsing Tin Interchange gazetted, Government Press Release, 3 August 2007
- ↑ 屯門公路擴闊工程刊憲 (Widening of Tuen Mun Road gazetted), news.gov.hk, 18 April 2008
- ↑ Highways Department Website: Reconstruction and Improvement of Tuen Mun Road
- ↑ Transport Dept to review bus-only lane on Tuen Mun Road, Transport Department Press Release, 16 November 2003
- ↑ Report on the Work of the Transport Department 2004
- ↑ 2012-2013年度屯門區巴士路線發展計劃（附件12：屯門公路巴士轉車站的規劃原則） (Tuen Mun District Bus Route Development Programme 2012-2013 (Annex 12: Planning Principles for Bus Interchange on Tuen Mun Road))
- ↑ Tuen Mun Road Bus Interchange, KMB_Official Website information, 2014-03-29; The upper part of the information on the addition of Iinterchange routes has been updated to 29 March 2014 with the addition of Route 63X; the list of Interchange concessions has been fully updated to the latest version.
- ↑ Transport Department - Traffic Notice - Suspension of Bus Stop on Tuen Mun Road southbound opposite to San Hui Market with effect from 16 January 2011, 15 January 2011.
- ↑ Resumption of San Hui Market bus stop, KMB_Passenger Notice2014-05-14
- ↑ 一粒螺絲 累50車爆胎 路政署急召人鋸走 (A single screw caused 50 vehicles to have flat tyres, Highways Department urgently called for workers to saw it away), Apple Daily, 1 December 2015.
- ↑ LCQ11: Relationship between the road works and traffic accidents on Tuen Mun Road, 12 February 2014.
External Links[]
- Lingnan University - Gallery of Tuen Mun Heritage
- Dragages HK website: Route 3 Country Park Section (including photos of a section of Tuen Mun Road between Sham Tseng and Ting Kau Bridge)
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