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This text is about the Tung Chung Station Bus Terminus situated at the ground floor of Citygate Outlets, as well as the bus terminus which was named "Tung Chung Town Centre Bus Terminus" between 27 April 2019 and 23 January 2020 and merged to this terminus from 24 January 2020 onwards:
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The Tung Chung Station Bus Terminus (東涌站巴士總站, Citybus Location Code TUC, whereas KMB and LWB Location Code 東涌) [1] is located at G/F, Citygate Outlets, 20 Tat Tung Road, Tung Chung Town Centre, Area 14, Tung Chung, Islands District, New Territories, adjacent to MTR Tung Chung Station and Tung Chung Cable Car Terminal. It is a large indoor sawtooth bus terminus with a central parking area.
As the transport hub of Lantau Island, a number of bus routes to and from North and South Lantau originate and terminate at the Tung Chung Station Bus Terminus, making it convenient for the public to travel to and from the urban areas by MTR or North Lantau External Routes.
Starting from 23 July 2018, when the Routes S52 series and S56 Stop Announcement System announces this stop, the screen displays "
Tung Chung Station 
, Tung Chung Cable Car Terminal" (東涌站 、東涌纜車站).
History[]
Tung Chung New Town is one of the ten core projects of the Airport Core Programme, with the first public housing estate, Fu Tung Estate, and the first Home Ownership Scheme (HOS) flat, Yu Tung Court, occupied in 1997. During the initial development of the new town, bus routes terminated at the Tung Chung Town Centre Bus Terminus.
The opening of the Hong Kong International Airport on 22 June 1998 coincided with the opening of the Tung Chung MTR Station Bus Terminus (東涌地鐵站巴士總站) [2] at the base of Citygate Phase 1 [3]. The new stop is located just a stone's throw away from the Town Centre Terminus, both of which are public transport facilities ancillary to Tung Chung Station. Since then, routes to the Airport and Yat Tung Estate mainly use this stop, while routes to and from all parts of Lantau Island drop off and pick up passengers at the Tung Chung Town Centre Bus Terminus, which shares a common entrance/exit with Tat Tung Road.
When the bus terminus was first commissioned, both Citybus and LWB referred to it as "Tung Chung MTR Station Bus Terminus" (東涌地鐵站巴士總站). After the rail merger, Citybus and LWB changed the name of the bus terminus to "Tung Chung Station" (東涌站) and "Tung Chung Railway Station Bus Terminus" (東涌鐵路站巴士總站) respectively. In late August 2017, LWB removed the word "railway" from the name of the bus terminus and renamed it as "Tung Chung Station Bus Terminus", which is similar to the naming of the bus terminus by Citybus.
Mei Tung Street new entrance[]
Citybus' "Tung Chung Town Centre Terminus Temporary Arrangement" signage next to the platform of Route S1
- The main article of this section is Tung Chung Town Centre Bus Terminus#Rezoning of bus terminus into commercial use.
In 2012, the Government released the site of the Tung Chung Town Centre Terminus for commercial development and awarded it to a consortium of Citygate developers - Swire, Henderson, SHKP, New World and Hang Lung - through a competitive tender process to form an extension to Citygate's retail outlets. During the construction of the mall, the Tung Chung Town Centre Terminus had to be decommissioned and reprovisioned at an alternative location. As the Tung Chung Station Bus Terminus and the Tung Chung Town Centre Bus Terminus originally shared an entrance at Tat Tung Road, which will be incorporated into the site boundary, the developer will need to construct an alternative entrance at Mei Tung Street for the former in order for the construction of the mall to commence.
The developer commenced works in 2014 to convert the turnaround adjacent to Mei Tung Street into a new entrance for the station. The new entrance opened at 10:00 a.m. on 20 April 2015[4][5] and all buses entering and leaving the station were diverted to Mei Tung Street.
After the opening of the new entrance/exit at Mei Tung Street, Citybus' signage next to the platforms of Route S1 refers to this station as "Tung Chung Town Centre Bus Terminus" (東涌市中心總站).
Extension part[]
The Citygate Outlets extension project was progressing well and was topped out in May 2018. It was initially planned that the temporary bus terminus would be relocated back to the original location of the Tung Chung Town Centre Bus Terminus [6]. According to the project plan, the layout of the covered bus terminus on the ground floor of the shopping centre is no different from that before 2015, with one side continuing to be used as a sawtooth bus terminus and the other remaining as a pit coach stop, and 24-hour pedestrian access will be provided. [7]
In a written reply to LegCo on 9 January 2019, the Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development, Mr Edward Yau, stated that the relevant departments of the Hong Kong Government were actively processing the acceptance procedures for the new public transport interchange on the ground floor of the Citygate Extension, i.e. the new public transport interchange converted from the original Tung Chung Town Centre Bus Terminus, so as to provide a number of additional bus pick-up and drop-off spaces for use by franchised buses [8]. TD considered that the existing bus terminus facilities in the vicinity of the Tung Chung Town Centre were inadequate to meet passenger demand and decided to retain the Tung Chung Temporary Bus Terminus for continued use by New Lantao Bus (NLB) routes, while Routes 1R and 23, which mainly serve tourists, as well as Routes 34 and 36, which have a relatively low patronage, would remain at the terminus. [9]
After years of construction, the Citygate Outlets extension opened in the first quarter of 2019 and the new bus terminus is scheduled to open on 27 April 2019, initially under the name of "Tung Chung Town Centre Bus Terminus"; Tung Chung West and Tung Chung North routes, and some South Lantau routes relocated to the Tung Chung Temporary Terminus during the works period were relocated to the terminus; NLB Route B6 towards Mun Tung Estate was also diverted to stop at the terminus, replacing the intermediate stop at Tung Chung Station [10]. All routes using this stop were diverted to use Tat Tung Road in and out of the terminus.
After more than eight months of full operation, the Transport Department gazetted the terminus as a bus terminus at Tung Chung Station on 24 January 2020, with NLB following immediately [11]. One year later, the non-franchised bus portion next to the drop-off point was scheduled to be commissioned on 5 April 2020 [12][13] to accommodate Routes NR05 and NR06 relocated from Fu Tung Street; and the drop-off point of staff shuttle buses commissioned by Kwoon Chung Bus between Tung Chung Station and Cathay Pacific Cargo Terminal was relocated to the non-franchised bus portion of the Tung Chung Station Bus Terminus.
Route Information[]
Franchised Buses (terminating)[]
| List of Franchised Bus Routes terminating at Tung Chung Station | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operator | Route No. | Origin | Destination | Service Type |
| NLB | 3M | Tung Chung Station Bus Terminus | Mui Wo Ferry Pier | Service daily ● |
| NLB | 11 | Tung Chung Station Bus Terminus | Tai O | Service daily ● |
| NLB | 11A | Tung Chung Station Bus Terminus | Shek Pik | Service Saturdays and holidays during daytime non-peak hours ● |
| NLB | 37S | Tung Chung Development Ferry Pier | Tung Chung Station Bus Terminus (One-way) |
Service Saturdays and holidays during afternoon, no return trip ● |
| NLB | 39M | Tung Chung Station Bus Terminus | Mun Tung Estate (Circular) |
Service daily ● |
| NLB | 39M Special Trips |
Mun Tung Estate | Tung Chung Station Bus Terminus (One-way) |
Service daily during early morning, no return trip ● |
| Citybus | N23 | Tung Chung Station | Tsz Wan Shan (North) | Outbound service daily overnight ● |
| Tsz Wan Shan (North) | Tung Chung Station | Inbound service daily during early morning ● | ||
| Citybus | N26 | Tung Chung Station | Yau Tong | Outbound service daily overnight ● |
| Yau Tong | Tung Chung Station | Inbound service daily during early morning ● | ||
| Citybus | N29 | Tung Chung Station | Tseung Kwan O (Hong Sing Garden) | Outbound service daily overnight ● |
| Tseung Kwan O (Hong Sing Garden) | Tung Chung Station | Inbound service daily during early morning ● | ||
| NLB | N38 | Tung Chung Station Bus Terminus | Yat Tung Estate | Service daily overnight ● |
| LWB | N42 | Ma On Shan (Yiu On) | Tung Chung Station | Outbound service daily during early morning ● |
| Tung Chung Station | Ma On Shan (Yiu On) | Inbound service daily overnight ● | ||
| LWB | N42A | Fanling (Luen Wo Hui) | Tung Chung Station | Outbound service daily during early morning, via Tai Po ● |
| Tung Chung Station | Fanling (Luen Wo Hui) | Inbound service daily overnight, via Tai Po ● | ||
| Citybus, LWB | S1 | Tung Chung Station | Airport (Passenger Terminal Building) (Circular) |
Service daily ● |
| Citybus | S52 Special Trips |
Tung Chung Station | Aircraft Maintenance Area | Outbound service Mondays to Fridays during Morning Peak Hours ● |
| Aircraft Maintenance Area | Tung Chung Station | Inbound service Mondays to Fridays during Afternoon Peak Hours ● | ||
| Citybus | S56 | Tung Chung Station[Remark 1] | Airport (Terminal 1) (Circular) |
Service daily, infinite circular operation, via Tung Chung North ● |
| Citybus | S56 | Tung Chung Station | Yu Nga Shopping Centre (One-way) |
Service daily overnight, terminates at Tung Chung North ● |
Franchised Buses (intermediate stop)[]
| List of Franchised Bus Routes observing "Tung Chung Station Bus Terminus" stop | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operator | Route No. | Origin | Destination | Service Type |
| NLB | 37 | Yat Tung Estate | Ying Tung Estate | Inbound during PM peak hours on school days, via Chung Yat Street ● |
| NLB | 37A | Yu Nga Court (Circular point here) | Service Mondays to Fridays during Morning Peak Hours ● | |
| NLB | 37H | Ying Tung Estate | ↺Mun Tung Estate | Service daily, via North Lantau Hospital, observes this stop in both directions ● |
| ↺Mun Tung Estate | Ying Tung Estate | |||
| NLB | 37M | Ying Tung Estate (Circular point here) | Service daily ● | |
| NLB | 38 | Yat Tung Estate (Circular point here) | Service daily ● | |
| NLB | 38X | Yung Yat House Yat Tung Estate (Circular point here) | Service during AM peak hours on school days ● | |
| NLB | A35 | HZMB Hong Kong Port | Mui Wo Ferry Pier | Service daily during Morning Peak Hours and Afternoon Peak Hours hours to nighttime, via Tong Fuk ●[Remark 2] |
| NLB | A35 Special Trips |
Mui Wo Ferry Pier | HZMB Hong Kong Port (One-way) |
Service daily during early morning, via Tung Chung Station Bus Terminus ● |
| NLB | B6* | HZMB Hong Kong Port | Mun Tung Estate | Service daily ●[Remark 3] |
| NLB | N35 | HZMB Hong Kong Port | Mui Wo Ferry Pier | Inbound daily during late night and early morning, via Tong Fuk ●[Remark 4] |
| NLB | N37 | Ying Tung Estate (Circular point here) | Service daily overnight ● | |
| LWB | N64 | Airport (Ground Transportation Centre) | Tung Chung (Yat Tung Estate) (One-way) |
Service daily overnight ● |
| Citybus | S52 | Tung Chung (Yat Tung Estate) | Aircraft Maintenance Area | Service daily, observes this stop in both directions ● |
| Aircraft Maintenance Area | Tung Chung (Yat Tung Estate) | |||
| Citybus | S52 Special Trips |
Tung Chung (Yat Tung Estate) | Aircraft Maintenance Area (One-way) |
Service Mondays to Fridays during early morning, omit Cathay Pacific City and Cargo Area ● |
| Citybus | S52 Special Trips |
Tung Chung Crescent | Aircraft Maintenance Area (One-way) |
Service Mondays to Fridays during Morning Peak Hours, omit Cathay Pacific City and Cargo Area ● |
| Citybus | S52A | Yu Nga Court | Aircraft Maintenance Area | Outbound service daily during Morning Peak Hours ● |
| Aircraft Maintenance Area | Yu Nga Court | Inbound service daily during Afternoon Peak Hours ● | ||
| Citybus | S52P | Tung Chung (Yat Tung Estate) | Chun Ping Road (Asia Airfreight Terminal) (Circular) |
Service Mondays to Saturdays during Morning Peak Hours ● |
| LWB | S64 | Tung Chung (Yat Tung Estate) | ↺Airport (Passenger Terminal Building) | Service daily after Morning Peak Hours, observes this stop in both directions ● |
| ↺Airport (Passenger Terminal Building) | Tung Chung (Yat Tung Estate) | |||
| LWB | S64C | Tung Chung (Yat Tung Estate) | ↺Airport Cargo Area | Service daily during Morning Peak Hours, observes this stop in both directions ● |
| ↺Airport Cargo Area | Tung Chung (Yat Tung Estate) | |||
| LWB | S64C | HACTL | Tung Chung (Yat Tung Estate) (One-way) |
Service Mondays to Saturdays during afternoon ● |
| Note: * Section fare begins at this stop. | ||||
Resident Buses[]
| List of Resident Bus Routes terminating at Tung Chung Station | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operator | Route No. | Origin | Destination | Service Type |
| Template:NR05 doesn't exist! | ||||
| Template:NR06 doesn't exist! | ||||
| DBTSL | DB01A | Tung Chung Station Bus Terminus | DB North Plaza | Service daily after Morning Peak Hours ● |
| DBTSL | DB01P | Tung Chung Station Bus Terminus | DB Plaza Bus Terminus (One-way) |
Service Mondays to Fridays during Morning Peak Hours, via DB North Plaza ● |
| DBTSL | DB01R | Tung Chung Station Bus Terminus | DB Plaza Bus Terminus | Service daily ● |
| DBTSL | DB02R | Hong Kong International Airport (New Coach Station) | DB Plaza Bus Terminus | Service daily overnight, boarding only ● |
Routes previously using this stop[]
The termini of the following routes are based on the date of relocation. For the current termini, please refer to the relevant route articles.
| List of Bus Routes once terminating at Tung Chung Station | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operator | Route No. | Destination at that time | Terminus changed to | Date no longer using this terminus |
| NLB | 37 | Tung Chung Pier | Yat Tung Estate | 15 March 2001 |
| NLB | 37 Special trip |
Yat Tung Estate | Special trip discontinued | 22 January 2007 |
| NLB | 37A | Caribbean Coast | Route discontinued | 4 April 2004 |
| NLB | 38P | Yu Tung Road (outside Yung Yat House) | Route discontinued | 9 January 2012 |
| NLB | 38X | Chung Yan Road (outside Yat Tung Estate Car Park No.1)→ | Fu Tung (Tat Tung Road) | 1 September 2011 |
| Citybus | E21 | Tai Kok Tsui | Chek Lap Kok Ferry Pier | 28 March 1999 |
| LWB | E31 | Tsuen Wan (Discovery Park) | Tung Chung (Yat Tung) | 1 April 2001 |
| LWB | N30 | Yuen Long Station → | Airport (Cheong Tat Road) | 20 June 2021 |
| LWB | N30P | Hung Kiu | Route discontinued | 20 June 2021 |
| LWB | N30S | Yuen Long Station | Route discontinued | 20 June 2021 |
| Citybus, LWB | S1A | AsiaWorld-Expo | Route discontinued | 8 December 2006 |
| Citybus | S51 | Airport Passenger Terminal Building ↺ | Route discontinued | 20 June 1999 |
| Citybus | S52 | Aircraft Maintenance Area | Tung Chung (Yat Tung) | 23 April 2001 |
| Citybus | S52P | Chun Ping Road (Asia Airfreight Terminal) | Tung Chung (Yat Tung) | 23 April 2001 |
| LWB | S61 | Airport Passenger Terminal Building ↺ | Route discontinued | 20 June 1999 |
| LWB | S62 | Airport Cargo Area ↺ | Route discontinued | 20 June 1999 |
| LWB | S63 | Airport Catering Area ↺ | Route discontinued | 7 April 2002 |
| LWB | S64 | Chek Lap Kok Ferry Pier ↺ | Tung Chung (Yat Tung) | 1 April 2001 |
| LWB | T39 | Tuen Mun (Yuet Wu Villa) | Route discontinued | 16 September 2008 |
| LWB | S64P | Tung Chung (Ying Hei Road) | Tung Chung (Yat Tung) | 18 June 2016 |
Stop Layout[]
The Tung Chung Station Bus Terminus is located on the ground floor of Citygate, and is a large-scale indoor bus terminal with a sawtooth-shaped design, with ten pick-up/drop-off bays at the edges and a parking area in the centre during its initial days of opening.
In the past, the Tung Chung Station Bus Terminus and the adjacent Tung Chung Town Centre Bus Terminus shared the same vehicular entrance and exit at Tat Tung Road. Upon commencement of the redevelopment of the Tung Chung Town Centre Bus Terminus, the original entrance was included in the site boundary and closed, and a separate entrance was provided at Mei Tung Street. In addition to the footpath next to the vehicular entrance at Mei Tung Street, pedestrians can also use the pedestrian walkway next to the stop of Route S1 for travelling between the MTR Tung Chung Station and the entrance of the Citygate Outlets.
Upon re-commissioning of the Tung Chung Town Centre Terminus, ten pick-up/drop-off spaces were provided, while the number of pick-up/drop-off spaces at the Tung Chung Station Bus Terminus were reduced by three to the remaining seven due to the closure of the Mei Tung Street entrance/exit. [14]
| Stop layout (from the stop nearest to the exit) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
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| No. | Direction | Route | Stop Pole No. |
| Section at the Citygate Outlets Main Wing | |||
| 1 | North | N23, N26, S56 | 1860D |
| 2 | S52A (to Tung Chung North), X1 LWB alighting stop |
1860C TA70-T-1000-2 | |
| 3 | South | N42、S64 (to Airport), S64C (to Airport Cargo Area) | TA70-T-1150-2 |
| 4 | N64, S64/S64C (to Yat Tung Estate) | TA70-T-1100-2 | |
| 5 | N42A, S1 | TA70-T-1050-2 1860A | |
| 6 | East | N29, S52/S52A (to AMA), S52P | 1860B |
| 7 | S52 (to Yat Tung Estate) 37H (to Mun Tung Estate), 38X 38, N38 |
1860F 105 | |
| Section at the Citygate Outlets Extension | |||
| 1 | North | 3M, A35, N35 | N/A |
| 2 | 11 | ||
| 3 | West | 11A, 11R | |
| 4 | South | 37, 37A, 37H, N37 (to Ying Tung Estate) | |
| 5 | 37M | ||
| 6 | 39M, B6 | ||
| 7 | East | Citybus alighting stop | 1860E |
| 8 | NLB alighting stop | N/A | |
| 9 | Vacant | ||
| 10 | Vacant | ||
| Stop layout at Citygate Outlets Main Wing before 20 April 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Extension part[]
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Remarks[]
- ↑ Last two trips daily terminate at "Yu Nga Shopping Centre" stop on Yi Tung Road after returning to Tung Chung Station.
- ↑ The stop for opposite direction is at Shun Tung Road near Tung Chung Fire Station, except the departure at 05:30 daily from Mui Wo.
- ↑ The stop for opposite direction is at Tung Chung Tat Tung Road Bus Terminus。
- ↑ The stop for opposite direction is at Shun Tung Road near Tung Chung Fire Station.
Related Articles[]
- Tung Chung Tat Tung Road Bus Terminus
- Tung Chung Town Centre Bus Terminus
- Tung Chung Station (Exit D)
- Tung Chung Station (Hing Tung Street) Bus Terminus
- Tung Chung Cable Car Terminal
- Citygate
Notes and References[]
- ↑ G. N. 7736: Road Traffic (Traffic Control) Regulations (Cap 374) --Tung Chung Station Bus Terminus, HKSAR Government Gazette Vol. 11 Issue No. 48, 30 November 2007.
- ↑ G.N. 2936, The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Gazette Vol. 02 No. 25, 19 June 1998
- ↑ HKSARG, "配合地鐵新支綫啟用的交通運輸安排" (Traffic and transport arrangements to tie in with the commissioning of the new MTR Extension) [Press Release], 19 June 1998.
- ↑ Transport Department HKSARG, "Closure of Tung Chung Town Centre Bus Terminus and its nearby Coach Terminus and Opening of Tung Chung Temporary Bus Terminus" [Announcement].
- ↑ G. N. 2860: Road Traffic (Traffic Control) Regulations (Cap 374) --Tung Chung Station Bus Terminus, HKSAR Government Gazette Vol. 19 Issue No. 16, 17 April 2015.
- ↑ "有關東薈城擴建進度的提問：Newfoundworld Limited 的書面回覆" (Question on the progress of Citygate Extension: Written reply from Newfoundworld Limited), Islands District Council Paper IDC 117/2016, October 2016
- ↑ "規劃申請：關乎申請編號 A/I-TCTC/54 的擬議用途/發展的概括發展規範" (Planning Application: General Development Code for the proposed use/development relating to application number A/I-TCTC/54), Town Planning Board, 8 July 2016
- ↑ "邱騰華指研遷移東涌B6號巴士站減對居民影響" (Edward Yau says research on relocating Route B6 bus stop at Tung Chung to reduce effects to residents), Sing Tao Daily, 9 January 2019.
- ↑ "有關東薈城新巴士總站的提問" (Questions about the new bus terminus at Citygate), Islands District Council Traffic and Transport Committee Paper T&TC 28/2019.(Annex)
- ↑ Transport Department HKSARG, "Opening of Tung Chung Town Centre Bus Terminus" [Traffic Notice], 25 April 2019.
- ↑ G. N. 556: Road Traffic (Traffic Control) Regulations (Cap 374) --Closed Area at Tung Chung Station Bus Terminus, HKSAR Government Gazette Vol. 24 Issue No. 04, 24 January 2020.
- ↑ G. N. 1656: Road Traffic (Traffic Control) Regulations (Cap 374) --Closed Area at Tung Chung Station Bus Terminus, HKSAR Government Gazette Vol. 24 Issue No. 14, 3 April 2020.
- ↑ Transport Department HKSARG, "Commncement of Operation of the Pick-up and Set-down Points of Non-franchised Bus in Tung Chung Station Bus Terminus" [Traffic Advice], 7 April 2020.
- ↑ "於東涌市中心各巴士總站的巴士服務安排" (Bus Service Arrangements at Bus Termini in Tung Chung Town Centre), Islands District Council Traffic and Transport Committee Paper T&TC 32/2019, February 2019
External Links[]
- Citybus website: Photo of the bus stop 1860 (Note: The site view may not be updated)
Tung Chung Station Public Transport Interchange, Tung Chung Station PTI, Tung Chung Railway Station Bus Terminus, Tung Chung Railway Station, Tung Chung MTR Station Bus Terminus and Tung Chung MTR Station
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