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The Lantau Link Visitors Centre and Viewing Platform is a Hong Kong museum located on the Tsing Yi Island.
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The Lantau Link Visitors Centre and Viewing Platform is a Hong Kong museum located on the Tsing Yi Island.
The Lantau Link Visitors Centre and Viewing Platform are located at northwestern Wok Tai Wan,Tsing Yi Island, [1] offering a direct view of the Tsing Ma Bridge,Kap Shui Mun Bridge,and Ting Kau Bridge. [2] It was constructed when the Tsing Ma Bridge began its development in 1992,intended to establish the bridge as a landmark and provide tourists with a vantage point. [3] The entire area covers approximately 19,000 square meters. [4] It was opened to the public in 1997,coinciding with the completion of the Tsing Ma Bridge. [3] [5] Initially funded by the Kwai Tsing District Council,it was taken over by the government in 2021 and is now jointly managed by the Home Affairs Department and the Leisure and Cultural Services Department. [5] It displays the information of the Lantau Link with models,photographs and panel texts as well as two computer quizzes provided for the visitors testing their knowledge of the Lantau Link. [6] From 2017 to 2020,the centre attracted approximately 80,000 to 130,000 visitors annually, [4] but this number dropped significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic,with only 53,280 visitors recorded in 2023. [5]
In 2014,a caféand a railway model shop,operated by a couple,opened at the visitor centre. [7]
In January 2021, Oriental Daily News reported that the government had provided insufficient funding to maintain the centre,leading to significant damage to various facilities,including the viewing platform's railings,which were only repaired by the government twice between 2008 and 2019. [1] In October,the centre was closed for renovations. [8] In August 2023,the Home Affairs Department began public consultations on revitalizing the centre and viewing platform,with a tentative completion deadline of 2026. [5]
The Lantau Link Visitors Centre can only be accessed by minibus route 308M. [5] [9]
Tsing Ma Bridge is a bridge in Hong Kong. It is the world's 17th-longest span suspension bridge,and was the second longest at the time of its completion. The bridge was named after the two islands it connects,namely Tsing Yi and Ma Wan. It has two decks and carries both road and rail traffic,which also makes it the largest suspension bridge of this type. The bridge has a main span of 1,377 metres (4,518 ft) and a height of 206 metres (676 ft). The span is the longest of all bridges in the world carrying rail traffic.
Tsing Yi,sometimes referred to as Tsing Yi Island,is an island in the New Territories of Hong Kong,to the northwest of Hong Kong Island and south of Tsuen Wan. With an area of 10.69 km2 (4.13 sq mi),the island has been extended drastically by reclamation along almost all its natural shore and the annexation of Nga Ying Chau (牙鷹洲) and Chau Tsai. Three major bays or harbours,Tsing Yi Lagoon,Mun Tsai Tong,and Tsing Yi Bay (青衣灣) in the northeast,have been completely reclaimed for new towns.
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The Tung Chung line is one of the ten lines of the MTR system in Hong Kong,linking the town of Tung Chung with central Hong Kong. It was built in the 1990s as part of the Airport Railway project,part of the construction of the new Chek Lap Kok Airport. The line currently travels through eight stations in 31 minutes along its route. The line is coloured orange on the MTR system map.
Ma Wan is an island of Hong Kong,located between Lantau Island and Tsing Yi Island,with an area of 0.97 square kilometres. Administratively,it is part of Tsuen Wan District.
The Lantau Link,formerly known as the Lantau Fixed Crossing,is a roadway in Hong Kong forming part of Route 8 linking Lantau Island to Tsing Yi,from which other roads lead to the urban areas of Kowloon and the rest of the New Territories. It is part of the Airport Core Programme centred on the new Hong Kong International Airport on Lantau. The link was officially opened on 27 April 1997,and it opened to traffic on 22 May the same year.
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Tsing Yi North Coastal Road,also abbreviated as TYNCR,is a dual carriageway in Tsing Yi,Hong Kong. The road starts at Tsing Tsuen Road,where it travels through the northern part of the island. It ends at Route 3 and Route 8 on the western side of the island at a left-in/left-out interchange,2.2 kilometres (1.4 mi) from its eastern terminus. The road was first planned in 1998 to relieve traffic coming from Lantau. It was constructed in 1999,and was opened on 2 February 2002.
The Airport Core Programme was a series of infrastructure projects centred on the new Hong Kong International Airport during the early 1990s. The programme was part of the Port and Airport Development Strategy,commonly known as the Rose Garden Project.
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Autotoll Limited provides electronic toll collection (ETC) service in Hong Kong.
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