Native name | 荔枝角道 (Yue Chinese) | ||
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Maintained by | Highways Department | ||
Length | 3.6 km (2.2 mi) | ||
Location | Kowloon, Hong Kong | ||
Coordinates | 22°19′53.15″N114°9′25.08″E / 22.3314306°N 114.1569667°E Coordinates: 22°19′53.15″N114°9′25.08″E / 22.3314306°N 114.1569667°E |
Lai Chi Kok Road | |||||||||||
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Chinese | 荔枝角道 | ||||||||||
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Lai Chi Kok Road is a road in western Kowloon,Hong Kong. It links Lai Chi Kok to Mong Kok,via Tai Kok Tsui,Sham Shui Po and Cheung Sha Wan. It starts from a junction with Nathan Road near Pioneer Centre in the south and ends near Mei Foo Sun Chuen. The road is bidirectional except the section at Lai Chi Kok,between the junction with Butterfly Valley Road and Mei Foo Sun Chuen,where it serves New Territories-bound traffic only. The Kowloon-bound traffic uses Cheung Sha Wan Road,separated by the flyover of Kwai Chung Road. The road once hosted shipyards,fish,meat and vegetable wholesale markets,which were moved closer to the coast after extensive reclamation.[ citation needed ]
Lai Chi Kok is classified by the Hong Kong government as a primary distributor road. [1] It is approximately 3.6 kilometres (2.2 mi) long and is maintained by the Highways Department.
Lai Chi Kok Road was created in the early 20th century after New Kowloon was acquired by the United Kingdom under the 1898 lease of the New Territories. The government was keen to develop New Kowloon,which was then a rural area,and Sham Shui Po was the first area where work was started. Indigenous residents of Sham Shui Po Village were moved out with monetary compensation or land exchange. According to one source,the rectangular road network there,within which Lai Chi Kok Road forms a principal thoroughfare,was planned in 1905. [2] Some of the first residential buildings in the redeveloped Sham Shui Po were completed in 1911 along Lai Chi Kok Road between Pei Ho and Kweilin streets. Land reclamation in the area began in 1912 and continued in stages for years. [3]
After a military base,Sham Shui Po Camp,was constructed on part of the reclaimed land,Lai Chi Kok Road terminated at the entrance to the base,just beyond Sham Shui Po Police Station. In 1959,the British Forces gave 9.69 hectares of the Sham Shui Po Camp to the Hong Kong government so that Lai Chi Kok Road could be extended to the new reclamation area in Cheung Sha Wan. [4] The base was thereafter bisected by Lai Chi Kok Road.
The area north-west of Tonkin Street was reclaimed from Victoria Harbour in the early 1960s. Lai Chi Kok Road was subsequently extended onto the new land,with the section between Tonkin Street and Kom Tsun Street opening on 1 September 1967. [5] This end of the road was then connected to Kwai Chung Road and Lai Chi Kok Bridge,which opened in 1968. Altogether,the scheme provided a critical new access route to the fast-growing Kwai Chung-Tsuen Wan new town (as well as parts of the western New Territories beyond),thereby relieving the congested and steep Castle Peak Road (which was until then the only route between Kowloon and Tsuen Wan). [6] [7]
The ground-level westbound road south of the Kwai Chung Road flyover,next to Mei Foo Sun Chuen and approximately 570 metres long,was left unnamed after it was constructed. In 1978,the Urban Council decided to name this road section "Lai Chi Kok Road",treating it as a westward extension of Lai Chi Kok Road. [8] [9] This brought Lai Chi Kok Road to its present western terminus at an access ramp to Kwai Chung Road.
The section of Lai Chi Kok Road adjacent to the Cheung Sha Wan industrial area (near Cheung Lai Street) was expanded and reconstructed in the mid-1980s to accommodate the terminus of a western extension to the West Kowloon Corridor,an elevated motorway. The extension to Lai Chi Kok Road opened to traffic on 28 November 1987. [10]
The section in Sham Shui Po was close to the camp of the British Army,where once a detention camp for prisoners of war during the Japanese occupation during World War II was. The Sham Shui Po Police Station at the junction of Yen Chow Street is another historical building.
The historical four-storey building Lui Seng Chun (Chinese :雷生春) is on 119 Lai Chi Kok Road. The building was restored by the Government of Hong Kong and hosts a Chinese medicine teahouse operated by the Hong Kong Baptist University.
Kowloon is an urban area in Hong Kong comprising the Kowloon Peninsula and New Kowloon. With a population of 2,019,533 and a population density of 43,033/km2 (111,450/sq mi) in 2006,it is the most populous area in Hong Kong,compared with Hong Kong Island and the rest of the New Territories. The peninsula's area is about 47 km2 (18 sq mi).
The Tsuen Wan line is one of the eleven lines of the metro network in Hong Kong's MTR. It is indicated in red on the MTR map.
Mei Foo is a Hong Kong MTR station located in Mei Foo Sun Chuen,Lai Chi Kok,New Kowloon. It is the only interchange station between the Tsuen Wan line and the Tuen Ma line,situated between Lai Chi Kok and Lai King stations on the Tsuen Wan line and Nam Cheong and Tsuen Wan West stations on the Tuen Ma line. Mei Foo station's colour is blue.
Mei Foo Sun Chuen or simply Mei Foo is a large private housing estate in Lai Chi Kok,Kowloon,Hong Kong. Mei Foo Sun Chuen was the first large scale private housing estate in Hong Kong and at the time of completion,the 99-tower complex was considered the largest private housing development in the world,accommodating some 70,000 –80,000 people in 13,500 apartments. It is considered to be one of the world's largest privately financed residential condominium projects.
Castle Peak Road is the longest road in Hong Kong. Completed in 1920,it runs in the approximate shape of an arc of a semi-circle. It runs West from Tai Po Road in Sham Shui Po,New Kowloon,to Tuen Mun,then north to Yuen Long then east to Sheung Shui,in the very north of the New Territories. It is divided into 22 sections. It serves south,west and north New Territories,being one of the most distant roads in early Hong Kong.
Sham Shui Po District is one of 18 districts of Hong Kong. It is the poorest district in Hong Kong,with a predominantly working-class population of 405,869 in 2016 and the lowest median household income of all districts. Sham Shui Po has long been home to poorer new immigrants from mainland China. It also saw the birth of public housing in Hong Kong,as the government sought to resettle those displaced by a devastating fire in its slums. Sham Shui Po also hosted a Vietnamese refugee camp during the influx of migration in the aftermath of the Vietnam War.
Cheung Sha Wan is an area between Lai Chi Kok and Sham Shui Po in New Kowloon,Hong Kong. It is mainly residential to the north and south,with an industrial area in between. Administratively it is part of Sham Shui Po District which also includes Lai Chi Kok.
Lai Chi Kok is a neighbourhood in Kowloon,Hong Kong,east of Kwai Chung and west of Cheung Sha Wan. Mei Foo Sun Chuen is the largest housing estate in the area and also the largest in Hong Kong with 99 blocks. Administratively,it belongs to Sham Shui Po District.
West Kowloon Corridor is part of Route 5 in Hong Kong. Bypassing existing surface roads in West Kowloon,it connects Lai Chi Kok Road in Cheung Sha Wan with the Gascoigne Road Flyover near Yau Ma Tei.
Lai Chi Kok Bridge is a Hong Kong bridge that carries the Kwai Chung Road,part of Route 5,linking Kowloon to Kwai Chung,New Territories.
Kwai Chung Road is a throughway in Kwai Chung of the New Territories in Hong Kong. It is one of the busiest roads in Hong Kong. The Transport Department has classified it as a trunk road.
Jordan Road Ferry Pier or Ferry Point (1924–1998) is a demolished pier originally located at Jordan Road,Jordan,Hong Kong.
Sham Shui Po Ferry Pier was a ferry pier in Sham Shui Po,Kowloon,Hong Kong that operated from 1924 to 1992. It was one of the important ferry piers in West Kowloon and had a bus terminus nearby.
Wah Lai Estate is a public housing estate in Lai Chi Kok,Kowloon,Hong Kong. It consists of a total of two residential blocks completed in 2001.
Cheung Sha Wan Road is a main thoroughfare in Kowloon,Hong Kong going in a south-north direction from Mong Kok in the south to Lai Chi Kok in the north.
Preceded by West Kowloon Corridor | Hong Kong Route 5 Lai Chi Kok Road | Succeeded by Kwai Chung Road |