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This text is about the "Tung Chung Town Centre Bus Terminus" before 20 April 2015:
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The Tung Chung Town Centre Bus Terminus (東涌市中心巴士總站) [1] was located at Tung Chung Town Lot No. 11, Area 3A, Tung Chung, Islands District, at the base of The New Extension of Citygate Outlets [2], Tat Tung Road, Tung Chung Town Centre, and shared the entrance to Tat Tung Road with the subsequent Tung Chung Station Bus Terminus.
History[]
The Tung Chung New Town is one of the ten core projects of the Airport Core Programme. The first public housing estate in the new town, Fu Tung Estate, was occupied in 1997, and the terminus opened on 22 May when the Lantau Link was commissioned. It is the first bus terminus in Tung Chung New Town and a public transport facility ancillary to Tung Chung Station, and served as the only external transport hub in the area prior to the commissioning of the Tung Chung Line of the Mass Transit Railway (MTR).
The terminus was located in the open air, and the adjacent indoor Tung Chung MTR Station Bus Terminus, which opened on 22 June 1998, is an extension of the terminus, with routes mainly to the Airport and Yat Tung Estate, and has been converted to Lantau routes for use by New Lantao Bus (NLB), with a common entrance/exit to Tat Tung Road.
Citybus Route S56 changed to use Tung Chung Station as its terminus with effect from 7 July 2008. Due to the lack of space at the indoor Tung Chung Station terminus at that time, and because one of the positioning of the route was to provide eExpress service from Airport Cheong Tat Road to Tung Chung Station, the stop was set up in an open-air terminus, which is similar to the drop-off point of Route S1 under normal circumstances.
NLB has assigned this stop the number 1157[3]. Since NLB updated its electric sign database, tested a new version of its station announcement system and used a new format of the route map in July 2014, the stop of Route 37 towards Caribbean Coast has also been renamed as "Tung Chung Town Centre" (東涌市中心), in line with other routes.
Rezoning of bus terminus into commercial use[]
Two land sales in 1998 and 2010[]
The terminus is located at Tung Chung Town Lot No. 11, Area 3A, Tung Chung. The Government rezoned the site for commercial use as early as 1998 and included it in the 1999-2000 Land Sale Programme in the Land Reserve List for Sale by Application. [4]
The Government proposed to demolish the Tung Chung Town Centre Bus Terminus and construct the Tung Chung Temporary Bus Terminus at its own cost, and the developer was required to design and construct a public transport interchange on the ground floor of the commercial development at a maximum cost of $66 million, with the Government reimbursing the actual amount paid by the developer. The developer was required to hand over the PTI to the Government upon completion of the commercial development. At that time, the Government expected that the project works would commence in December 1999 for completion in December 2002, but the whole project was eventually aborted.
In February 2010, the Government again included the bus terminus site, which had already been zoned as a commercial site, in the 2010-2011 Land Sale Programme in the Land Reserve List of Sites for Sale by Application, and it was scheduled to be put up for sale by the end of April 2010 [5].
Successful land sale in 2012[]
By 28 December 2012, the Lands Department put up the commercial site where the bus terminus was located for sale by open tender [6]. The Tung Chung Town Lot No. 11 has a site area of about 107,900 square feet, a plot ratio of about five, a building height restriction of 70 metres, and a permissible gross floor area of about 540,000 square feet, and is designated for non-industrial uses such as offices and hotels. The successful developer will be required to construct a public transport interchange of about 100,000 square feet for the project. At the same time, a north-south vehicular and pedestrian access to the site had to be retained, resulting in the split of the site into two parts, with the building height restriction for the part of the site near the road on the eastern side being lowered to 23.5 metres.
The Citygate consortium, comprising Swire, Henderson, SHKP, New World and Hang Lung, acquired the site at a cost of $2,328 million in March 2013, and in April the following year, approval was granted for the construction of a 15-storey commercial building; the developer subsequently announced that the project would become part of Citygate, providing approximately 100 retail outlets and around 200 hotel rooms, as well as a four-theatre cinema, with completion scheduled for the latter half of 2018 Completion is expected in the second half of 2018.
Citygate expansion[]
The Citygate expansion project comprises two adjoining lots, Tung Chung Town Lot No. 2 for the Citygate Outlets Expansion, which involves the demolition of and addition to the original food court and cinema above the Tung Chung Station Bus Terminus, and Tung Chung Town Lot No. 11 for the hotel and retail complex, which is adjacent to the Tung Chung Town Centre Terminus. The two projects would be carried out concurrently and the construction period will be about 28 months. [7]
According to the Conditions of Sale, as the site was originally a bus terminus, the developer was required to construct a temporary public transport interchange at the northern part of the site during the construction period, and the Government would reimburse the relevant works expenditure at a cost of $11.3 million afterwards [8].
Tung Chung Temporary Bus Terminus[]
In 2014, the Citygate consortium, which acquired the site, constructed a new entrance/exit at the Tung Chung Station Bus Terminus to connect to Mei Tung Street and converted the original Tung Chung Community Nursery into a Tung Chung Temporary Bus Terminus [9] for the New Lantao Bus (NLB) routes that had to be relocated due to the closure of this station.
The Tung Chung Town Centre Bus Terminus, the adjoining Coach Terminus and the entrance/exit to Tat Tung Road were closed at 1:30 a.m. on 20 April 2015, and were then transformed into the site of the Citygate Extension project. The Tung Chung Temporary Bus Terminus at Tat Tung Road was opened at 2:00 a.m. on the same day, while the new entrance/exit at Mei Tung Street of the Tung Chung Station Bus Terminus was opened to the public from 10:00 a.m.[10][11]. The coach pick-up/drop-off bays at the original coach stops were reprovisioned at Tat Tung Road near the Tung Chung Temporary Terminus and the parking bay at the public toilet on Tat Tung Road, while the bus metered parking spaces were reprovisioned at the Tung Chung Development Pier, at Tat Tung Road next to the pedestrian crossing at the back of the Citygate bus stop, and at Yu Tung Road eastbound near Chung Mun Road. [12]
Route Information[]
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 Town Centre | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operator | Route No. | Destination at that time | Terminus changed to | Date no longer using this terminus |
| NLB | 11R | ↺Tong Fuk/Pui O | Route discontinued | 2007年9月2日 |
| NLB | 13 | Mui Wo | Renumbered as Route 3M | 1 June 2001 |
| NLB | 23 | Ngong Ping | Tung Chung Temporary Bus Terminus[9] | 20 April 2015 |
| NLB | 34 | Shek Mun Kap | Tung Chung Temporary Bus Terminus[9] | 20 April 2015 |
| NLB | 36 | Siu Ho Wan Vehicle Detention Pound | Tung Chung Temporary Bus Terminus[9] | 20 April 2015 |
| NLB | 36P | Penny's Bay | Route discontinued | 2005年8月21日 |
| Citybus | E21 | Tai Kok Tsui | Tung Chung MTR Station | 22 June 1998 |
| DBTSL | DB01R | Discovery Bay Pier | Tung Chung Temporary Bus Terminus[13] | 20 April 2015 |
| DBTSL | DB02R[14] | Discovery Bay Pier | Tung Chung Temporary Bus Terminus | 20 April 2015 |
| LWB | E31 | Tsuen Wan Ferry Pier | Tung Chung MTR Station | 22 June 1998 |
| NLB | N13 | Mui Wo | Route discontinued | 1 November 1998 |
| Citybus | S1 | ↺Chek Lap Kok | Route discontinued | 22 June 1998 |
| Citybus | S56 | Airport (Passenger Terminal Building) | Relocated to the indoor part | 20 April 2015 |
| Citybus, LWB | T1 | ←Airport Passenger Terminal Building Cheong Tat Road | Route discontinued | 7 June 1997 |
Gallery[]
Related Articles[]
- Citygate
- Tung Chung Station
- Tung Chung Station Bus Terminus
- Tung Chung Station (Hing Tung Street) Bus Terminus
- Tung Chung Tat Tung Road Bus Terminus
- Tung Chung Cable Car Terminal (Tat Tung Road)
Notes and References[]
- ↑ G.N. 2367, Hong Kong Government Gazette, Vol. 139, No. 20, 16 May 1997
- ↑ The New Extension of Citygate Outlets to open in August 2019, Swire Properties Press Centre, 22 July 2019
- ↑ The stop number is located in the timetable box near the regulator's room.
- ↑ Public transport interchange in Area 3A, Tung Chung, Paper for the Public Works Subcommittee of the Finance Committee of the Legislative Council, 26 May 1999 (Chinese).
- ↑ Lands Department Website: Land Sale Programme List of Sites for Sale by Application (Application Form) February 2010 to March 2011, 25 Feburary 2010.
- ↑ Government to sell two sites by public tender, Government Press Release, 28 December 2012
- ↑ 創新科技 締建築新猷 (Innovative Technology for a New Architecture), Hip Hing Voice (《協興·雋語》) vol. 81, October - December 2018.
- ↑ 東涌商業地可試勾估6.6億 (Tung Chung Commercial Land Trial Trigger Estimated at $660m), Ta Kung Pao, 6 April 2012
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 The bus company continued to call it "Tung Chung Town Centre" after the relocation.
- ↑ Transport Department Traffic Notice: Closure of Tung Chung Town Centre Bus Terminus and its nearby Coach Terminus and Opening of Tung Chung Temporary Bus Terminus, 16 April 2015.
- ↑ G.N. 2859: (Road Traffic (Traffic Control) Regulations (Cap. 374) - Tung Chung Temporary Bus Terminus) and G.N. 2860: (Road Traffic (Traffic Control) Regulations (Cap. 374) - Tung Chung Station Bus Terminus), Gazette of the Government of the HKSAR, Volume 19, Issue 16, 17 April 2015
- ↑ 東涌市地段第11號施工期間臨時交通安排－旅遊巴車位重置 (Temporary Traffic Arrangements during Construction of Tung Chung Town Lot No. 11 - Reprovisioning of Coach Parking Spaces), Non-Franchised Bus Bulletin vol 39, Transport Department, September 2014
- ↑ Additionally detoured via Tung Chung Station near Exit D
- ↑ Observe only for daily departures between 01:30-05:30 from Airport (Terminal 2)
External Links[]
- Centamap: Nearby street view of the bus terminus
- Tobacco and Liquor Control Office, Department of Health: Designated No Smoking Areas - Tung Chung Town Centre Bus Terminus
Tat Tung Road Public Transport Terminus
Template:List of Disused Islands District Bus Termini