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11,000 visitors took public bus route to Tung Chung from mega bridge, Hong Kong’s transport chief Frank Chan reveals as measures rolled out to ease travel chaos

  • Influx of visitors to Lantau Island town last Sunday sparked outcry from residents
  • Bus company will deploy more staff to help passengers and queues will be managed differently

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(From left) Lau Kong-wah, Frank Chan and Commerce Secretary Edward Yau Tang-wah announce the measures. Photo: Winson Wong
Kanis LeungandSum Lok-kei

Some 11,000 visitors took a bus route from the Hong Kong port of the newly opened mega bridge to Tung Chung on Lantau Island last Sunday, the transport chief revealed on Friday as new measures were rolled out to avoid travel chaos.

Secretary for Transport and Housing Frank Chan Fan said the visitors – more than 10 per cent of the 100,000 people who passed through on the 55km Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge last Sunday – took the public bus route B6 to Tung Chung. Many waited for hours to board a bus.

More than 3,000 of them were believed to have stayed in Tung Chung, rode the Ngong Ping 360 cable car, which has a terminal in the town, or visited other spots on the island including Tai O fishing village. The others took a train to elsewhere in the city, Chan added.

Mainland tourists wait for a bus in Tung Chung. Photo: SCMP
Mainland tourists wait for a bus in Tung Chung. Photo: SCMP

To reduce the disturbance to Tung Chung residents, Chan said queues would be managed differently from the previous weekend, as there would now be two buses for boarding at the same time.

“The queue will be arranged like in banks,” he said, meaning it would be in an “S” shape rather than a straight line.

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