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Ng Kang-chung

A 1.1km (1,203 yard) section of a long-awaited harbourfront boardwalk built beneath an elevated road on Hong Kong Island is set to open to the public by Lunar New Year late next month.
Part of a HK$6.5 billion (US$837.3 million) harbourfront enhancement programme, the project in North Point is a key component of the government’s efforts to develop a 13km pedestrian-friendly promenade connecting Kennedy Town in the west to Shau Kei Wan in the east.
In a Facebook post on Sunday, development minister Bernadette Linn Hon-ho hailed it as “the first seaside boardwalk built under an operating main road”.
The boardwalk, beneath the Island Eastern Corridor, was also praised by the Development Bureau for its “wise use of the space”.
“[It] will bring a new waterfront experience to the public and is of great significance to the harbourfront enhancement work,” the bureau’s post said, citing Linn.


Linn hoped the new boardwalk would become a landmark of the Victoria Harbour waterfront, the post added.
The whole boardwalk project, which started in 2021, is about 2.2km long and maintains a width of at least 10 metres throughout. It comprises a western and an eastern section.
The 700-metre western section, which runs from Oil Street to Tong Shui Road, will connect with the existing 400-metre North Point Promenade. The western section would open for trial operations from Monday, the bureau said in the post.
Community and professional groups as well as members of the public who took part in previous boardwalk-related liaison work will be invited to try it.
Based on their feedback, further improvement works would be conducted. The bureau said it expected the boardwalk to formally open to the public before Lunar New Year.

The 1.1km eastern section, running from Tin Chiu Street in North Point to Hoi Yu Street in Quarry Bay, is expected to open in phases in the second half of 2025, according to the post.
Linn recently visited the boardwalk with Harbourfront Commission chairman Ivan Ho Man-yiu and Director of Civil Engineering and Development Michael Fong Hok-shing, the post said.
Ho described the boardwalk project as a “last piece of the puzzle” that would complete the 13km promenade fully connecting the northern shore of Hong Kong Island, stretching from Shek Tong Tsui in Western district to Aldrich Bay in Shau Kei Wan.
In a publicity video posted online by the bureau, Ho said: “It has always been the mission of the commission to make the harbourfront an easily accessible and inclusive public space.”


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Bernadette Linn (left) hopes the boardwalk will become a new landmark of the Victoria Harbour waterfront. Photo: Handout

An artist’s impression of the North Point boardwalk. Photo: Handout

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1.1km boardwalk set to open in Hong Kong’s North Point by Lunar New Year

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Project built beneath Island Eastern Corridor is part of a HK$6.5 billion harbourfront enhancement programme