Tai Po Road is the second longest road in Hong Kong (after Castle Peak Road ). It spans from Sham Shui Po in Kowloon to Tai Po in the New Territories of Hong Kong . Initially, the road was named Frontier Road .
11-569: 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
22-652: Is a hill in the northern part of the Kowloon peninsula in Hong Kong . It is the 71st-highest hill of Hong Kong and is 457m tall. Beacon Hill is located within the Lion Rock Country Park . The tower and its relevant equipment on the top of Beacon Hill is not open to the public and is a secured facility controlled and maintained by the Hong Kong Civil Aviation Department . The hill's name dates back to
33-719: Is also commonly called "main road" ( 大馬路 ). This section was bypassed by the Yuen Long Highway in 1992. It then turns north at Au Tau , just west of Kam Tin . This section is paralleled by San Tin Highway , constructed between 1991 and 1993. It then passes through Mai Po , San Tin , Lok Ma Chau (near the Chinese border), Pak Shek Au and Kwu Tung before terminating at Fan Kam Road in Sheung Shui . Tai Po Road The road begins at Nathan Road near Sham Shui Po, runs through
44-657: Is one-way eastbound between Kom Tsun Street & its terminus at Tai Po Road. After leaving New Kowloon, it goes uphill past Kau Wa Keng and Tai Ching Cheung along a four-lane expressway to Kwai Chung and downhill into Tsuen Wan. The stretch within Tsuen Wan is also commonly called "main road" ( 大馬路 ), especially among the older generations. Next, it goes along the south shore of the Western New Territories, via Yau Kom Tau , Ting Kau , Sham Tseng , Tsing Lung Tau , Tai Lam , Siu Lam and So Kwun Wat and then reaches
55-516: The Great Clearance between 1661 and 1669, which required the complete evacuation of the coastal areas of Kowloon in Hong Kong in order to fight against and then subsequently defeat the anti-Qing movement that was first started and largely led by surviving Ming Dynasty loyalists carrying on the struggle against the new Manchu-formed Qing Dynasty. Qing military garrisons were created and stationed throughout most of Kowloon's coastal areas to enforce
66-627: The Tuen Mun New Town , which was also known as Castle Peak (after which the road was named). Much of this stretch was bypassed by Tuen Mun Road between 1977 and 1983. This section is popular with cyclists as it links Tuen Mun and Tsuen Wan. It continues north-east as a six-laned road, paralleling the Light Rail through Lam Tei , Hung Shui Kiu , Ping Shan and goes through another new town, Yuen Long New Town . The section within Yuen Long, again,
77-593: The 1980s, the road connected Fanling and Sheung Shui . On 10 February 2018, at approximately 18:13 HKT, a Kowloon Motor Bus (KMB) double-decker bus flipped onto its side on Tai Po Road. The crash killed 19 people and injured 65. The incident was Hong Kong's second deadliest road traffic accident, behind a 2003 incident on Tuen Mun Road that killed 21. 22°23′20″N 114°11′37″E / 22.38893°N 114.19353°E / 22.38893; 114.19353 Beacon Hill (Hong Kong) Beacon Hill ( Chinese : 筆架山 ; Jyutping : bat1 gaa3 saan1 )
88-545: The facilitation of trade and police control as reasons for the road's construction. It was built and gradually widened in sections. The road starts east at Tai Po Road in Sham Shui Po and passes through Cheung Sha Wan and Lai Chi Kok in New Kowloon. On both sides of the road are old residential blocks, with some dated back to pre- World War II . Towards Lai Chi Kok, it is surrounded by industrial buildings instead. The road
99-412: The most distant roads in early Hong Kong. The road was named after Castle Peak , a peak in the western New Territories. The area to the east of the peak was hence named Castle Peak. Later at the dawn of the development of new town, the area was renamed to its old name, Tuen Mun. The road was originally known in Chinese as Tsing Shan To ( 青山道 ) for its entire length. The Chinese name of the section of
110-648: The road in the New Territories was later changed to Tsing Shan Kung Lo ( 青山公路 ) Lit. "Castle Peak public road" or "Castle Peak Highway". In everyday conversation, however, the term Tsing Shan To survives for the stretches within Tsuen Wan and Yuen Long. The road was constructed soon after the British leased the New Territories in 1898. Speaking in the Legislative Council in 1909, Governor Frederick Lugard cited
121-577: The valley between Golden Hill and Beacon Hill , and connects to Sha Tin . It then continues northward along Sha Tin Hoi and Tai Po Hoi . Built in 1902, Tai Po Road is one of the earliest major roads in the New Territories. Until the completion of the Lion Rock Tunnel in 1967, Tai Po Road was the main road connecting the New Territories with Kowloon. Before the construction of the Fanling Highway in
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