The Eastern Harbour Crossing (Chinese: 東區海底隧道), abreviated as "EHC" (Chinese abbreviation: 東隧) is a tunnel in Hong Kong. It is a combined road and MTR rail link under Victoria Harbour between Quarry Bay in Hong Kong Island and Cha Kwo Ling in Kowloon. Logo of the MTR corporation Causeway Bay station on the Island Line. ... Victoria Harbour Part of the harbour being engulfed by reclamation off the shore of Central. ... Nam Fung Sun Chuen, a private housing estate in Quarry Bay Quarry Bay (鰂魚涌; literally Crucian Carp Stream or River) is an area beneath Mount Parker in Eastern District on Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. ... The night view of the Island side as seen from the Kowloon side - the opposite side of the Victoria Harbour Hong Kong Island (Traditional Chinese: 香港島; Simplified Chinese: 香港岛; Cantonese Jyutping: hoeng1 gong2 dou2; Mandarin Pinyin: XiānggÇŽngdÇŽo) is the island where the colonial settlement of the Hong Kong territory... Cha Kwo Ling (茶果嶺) is a hill in New Kowloon, Hong Kong, and the area around it. ... Location within China In modern day Hong Kong, Kowloon (九龍; Cantonese IPA:; Jyutping: gau2 lung4; Mandarin Pinyin: JiÇ”lóng; lit. ...

The road part of the tunnel is branded by the operator, New Hong Kong Tunnel Company Limited, as Eastern Harbour Tunnel, although the government refers to the tunnel itself as Eastern Harbour Crossing and the legislation governing the tunnel is known as Eastern Harbour Crossing Ordinance.

The rail part connects Quarry Bay and Yau Tong stations of the MTR Tseung Kwan O Line. The road part connects Island Eastern Corridor and Kwun Tong Bypass. Quarry Bay (Chinese: 鰂魚涌; Cantonese IPA: , Yale: jāk yùh chūng, Jyutping: zak1 jyu4 cung1; Mandarin Pinyin: ) is an underground station on the MTR Island Line on Hong Kong Island and Tseung Kwan O Line between Hong Kong Island and Tseung Kwan O New Town in the New Territories... Yau Tong Station is an interchange between Kwun Tong and Tseung Kwan O Lines on the MTR. Yau Tong (Chinese: 油塘, Jyutping: jau4 tong4, Pinyin: Yóutáng, lit. ... Logo of the MTR corporation Causeway Bay station on the Island Line. ... This is the complete route map of the Tseung Kwan O Line. ... Island Eastern Corridor (Chinese: 東區走廊) is an expressway along the north shore of Hong Kong Island in the Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong. ... Kwun Tong Bypass (觀塘繞道) is a bypass flyover for alleviating traffic congestion in Kwun Tong Road, Kwun Tong, Hong Kong. ...

In June 2005, the toll for using Eastern Harbour Crossing was raised from HK$15 to HK$25 for private vehicles and much more for other classes of vehicles. This has aroused dissatisfaction of the general public and shifted more traffic to the already congested Cross-Harbour Tunnel. The Government has looked at solutions to this and has included: raising the toll on the Cross-Harbour Tunnel, extending the franchise on the Eastern Harbour Crossing to allowing the owners more time to make a return on investment, merging the three tunnels into one management company or buying back the tunnel. Toll plaza of Cross Harbour Tunnel Entrance of Cross Harbour Tunnel at Hung Hom, Kowloon The area around the entrance of the Cross Harbour Tunnel at the Island side in the 1970s, when the tunnel was being contructed. ...

Traffic

According to the operator, in 2003, a total number of 26,018,772 vehicles used the Eastern Harbour Tunnel. The average daily throughput was 71,284.

There are many harbour-crossing bus routes that go via the Eastern Harbour Crossing. They are operated by KMB, New World First Bus and Citybus. Most of these bus routes have three-digit route number beginning with a "6". An exception is bus route number "T6", of which "T" stands for "Tourist bus route." This article needs cleanup. ... New World First Bus Services Limited (First Bus, or NWFB) was established in 1998, taking over China Motor Buss franchise on 1 September 1998 to provide bus services on Hong Kong Island together with Citybus. ... Citybus may refer to: Citybus, a bus operator in the city of Belfast, Northern Ireland. ...

Detailed Bus Routes

• New World First Bus:302, 601, 601P, 641, 680, 680A, 680P, 680X, 682, 682P, 692, 692P, 694, 802, 811
• Citybus:307, 606, 606P, 619, 619P, 621, 671, 681, 681P, 690, 690P, 698R
• Kowloon Motor Bus: 307, 373
• OverNights:N307, N601, N619, N671, N680, N681, N691

New World First Bus Services Limited (First Bus, or NWFB) was established in 1998, taking over China Motor Buss franchise on 1 September 1998 to provide bus services on Hong Kong Island together with Citybus. ... Citybus may refer to: Citybus, a bus operator in the city of Belfast, Northern Ireland. ... The Kowloon Motor Bus Company (1933) Limited (KMB) is the largest of the three franchised bus operators in the urban area of Hong Kong, and one of the largest privately-owned public bus operators in the world. ...

See also

• Tunnels and bridges in Hong Kong

There are many road tunnels and bridges in Hong Kong. ...

External link

• Official site