Cheung Tsing Highway Explained

Country:HKG
Type:Route
Route:3
Cheung Tsing Highway
Alternate Name:Part of Route 3
Map:Cheung Tsing Highway 2017.jpg
Length Km:1.2
Established:1997
Direction A:Southeast
Terminus A:Cheung Tsing Tunnel
Direction B:Northwest
Terminus B:North West Tsing Yi Interchange
Location1:Tsing Yi
Label1:Areas/neighbourhoods

Cheung Tsing Highway is a highway of Route 3 between Cheung Tsing Tunnel and on Tsing Yi Island, New Territories, Hong Kong. It was built as part of the Airport Core Programme together with the rest of Route 3 to provide a new highway link from North Western New Territories towards Hong Kong Island, and connects with Route 8 to provide access to the new Hong Kong International Airport.

It leads to Tsing Long Highway at North West Tsing Yi Interchange, and also connects to Lantau Link and there. Its eastern end leads into Cheung Tsing Tunnel which is connected to Tsing Kwai Highway by Cheung Tsing Bridge.

In the early morning of 30 November 2018, a coach ferrying workers to Hong Kong International Airport collided with a broken-down taxi on the highway, killing six people – the coach driver, the taxi driver and four of the coach passengers. The coach driver was suspected to have fallen asleep, and had previously been involved in two other early-morning coach accidents in 2018.[1] [2] On 5 December, a memorial service for four of the victims was held at the accident site on the portion of Cheung Tsing Highway in Tsing Yi; the section of road was closed for two hours.[3]

Interchanges

Cheung Tsing Highway
Eastbound exitsExit numberWestbound exits
continues as Tsing Kwai Highway
End Cheung Tsing Highway Start Cheung Tsing Highway
Cheung Tsing Tunnel
NORTH WEST TSING YI INTERCHANGE
Container Port Terminals, Sha Tin
Tsing Sha Highway
4Dno exit
NORTH WEST TSING YI INTERCHANGE
Tsing Yi South
Tsing Yi Road West
4Eno exit
see Tsing Long Highway5NORTH WEST TSING YI INTERCHANGE
Lantau
Lantau Link
no exit5ANORTH WEST TSING YI INTERCHANGE
Lantau Link administration building, View Point, Tsing Yi North, Tsuen Wan
Tsing Yi North Coastal Road
Start Cheung Tsing Highway

See also

Other highways in Kowloon and New Territories:

External links

22.3448°N 114.0944°W

Notes and References

  1. News: Lo . Clifford . Coach driver involved in Tsing Yi crash dies of his injuries in hospital, says government spokeswoman . 25 December 2018 . . South China Morning Post Publishers . 4 December 2018.
  2. News: Five dead, 31 injured in Hong Kong coach crash: police . 25 December 2018 . . . HT Media . 30 November 2018.
  3. News: Lo . Clifford . Driver of coach in fatal Tsing Yi crash had been involved in seven traffic violations in recent years . 25 December 2018 . . South China Morning Post Publishers . 5 December 2018.