Hong Kong’s largest public transport interchange, with city’s first air-conditioned bus depots, to open at Kwun Tong on April 2
- Two-storey facility will have a bus terminal serving eight routes on the upper floor and a minibus terminal serving 21 routes on the lower platform
- Air-conditioned indoor waiting area will be linked to shopping centre, and artificial intelligence will help ensure safety at bus gates
Hong Kong’s largest public transport interchange, boasting the city’s first air-conditioned bus depots, is set to open on April 2 in one of the city’s biggest redevelopment areas.
Spanning 161,000 sq ft, the new public transport interchange at Kwun Tong’s Yue Man Square will be the largest such facility in the city, according to a blog post by Wai Chi-sing, managing director of the Urban Renewal Authority (URA), on Sunday.
It is part of the multibillion-dollar Kwun Tong Town Centre Project, one of the biggest plans undertaken by the URA, which has been going on since March 2007. Occupying an area of more than 500,000 sq ft, the town centre project will affect more than 1,600 property sites and over 5,000 residents.
The public transport interchange will have two floors, with a new bus terminal serving eight routes on the upper floor, while a minibus terminal serving 21 routes will be located on the ground floor.
“The opening of the interchange will mark a new milestone in the renewal of Kwun Tong’s old district,” he wrote.
“I hope this project can provide safer, more comfortable and high-quality urban life and public services to hundreds of thousands of passengers, drivers and residents every day.”
