Tseung Kwan O station explained

Style:MTR
Tseung Kwan O
Native Name:將軍澳
Native Name Lang:zh-Hant
Mlanguage:
S:将军澳
L:General's Bay
P:Jiāngjūn'ào
Y:Jēunggwān'ou
J:Zoeng1gwan1ou3
Ci:pronounced as /tsœ́ːŋ kʷɐ́n ʔōu/
Address:Tseung Kwan O
Borough:Sai Kung District, Hong Kong
Coordinates:22.3074°N 114.26°W
Structure:Underground
Platform:2 (1 island platform)
Tracks:2
Architect:Aedas
Code:TKO
Owned:MTR Corporation
Operator:MTR Corporation
Map Type:Hong Kong MTR
Map Alt:Hong Kong MTR system map
Map State:expanded

Tseung Kwan O (; :) is a station on the MTR located at the town centre of the Tseung Kwan O New Town in the New Territories of Hong Kong. The previous station is and the line splits after this station to and . The entrances to the station are on Tong Chun Street, Popcorn Mall and Tong Yin Street. A public transport interchange is located outside the station. The architecture firm Aedas designed the station.[1]

History

Leighton-China State joint venture won the contract for the station.

Tsueng Kwan O station opened to the public on 18 August 2002, together with the spur line to Tsueng Kwan O Depot, right next to LOHAS Park station, but the station did not open until 26 July 2009.

Station layout

GConcourseExits, transport interchange
Customer service, MTRshops
Vending machines, automatic teller machines
L1
Platform
Platform 1 towards
Tseung Kwan O line towards (Terminus)
Island platform, doors will open on the right
Platform 2← Tseung Kwan O line towards

Entrances/exits

Hotels

Sun Hung Kai Properties developed a 359-room Crowne Plaza hotel, a 176-room Vega Suites hotel and a 300-room Holiday Inn Express hotel at Tseung Kwan O station as part of a comprehensive hotel and shopping complex.[2]

Shopping centre

The station is attached to an MTR-owned shopping centre called PopCorn that opened in 2012. It comprises over 40,000 square metres and houses about 150 retailers and a cinema.[3]

PopCorn is an anchor connecting the nearby malls of PopCorn 2, Park Central, and Tseung Kwan O Plaza. A public transport interchange is situated next to PopCorn and serves public light buses routes 103M, 110 and 112S, and Citybus routes 792M, 793, 796S, 796X, 797M, 798 and N796.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Designers transfer Hong Kong know-how to Dubai's new metro. South China Morning Post. 2 December 2009. 26 June 2014.
  2. http://www.shkphotels.com/en/futuredevelopment/overview.shtml Future Development
  3. News: Kao. Ernest. Mother and 2 children injured as ceiling collapses at MTR shopping mall in Tseung Kwan O. South China Morning Post. 24 August 2015.