Central (Exchange Square) Bus Terminus

Central (Exchange Square) 中環（交易廣場）
General information
Location	Ground floor, Exchange Square, 8 Connaught Place Central Central and Western
Connections	Feeder transport: MTR      Tung Chung line and      Airport Express at Hong Kong station Major structures/sights nearby: Exchange Square, Hong Kong station and Jardine House
History
Opened	1 February 1985; 39 years ago (1985-02-01)

The Central (Exchange Square) Bus Terminus (Chinese: 中環（交易廣場）巴士總站) is a major bus terminus located in Central, Central and Western District, Hong Kong. Situated on the ground floor of the Exchange Square commercial complex, the terminus is regarded as the central hub of bus routes in the Central District.

With a total of 14 berths for franchised buses, Central (Exchange Square) is now the largest bus station in Hong Kong which still functions as a bus terminus, in terms of the number of boarding platforms.

Location and structure

Central (Exchange Square) Bus Terminus is situated on the ground floor of the Exchange Square complex, which consists of 3 office blocks. The bus terminus is located beneath Two Exchange Square and Three Exchange Square.

The terminus consists of 14 boarding/alighting platforms for franchised bus routes. In addition to the franchised bus terminus, a smaller station with a public light bus terminus, a public loading/unloading area as well as a taxi stand is located under One Exchange Square.

For the franchised bus terminus, buses enter via the three entrances located at Harbour View Street, and leave the terminus through the two exits at Connaught Road Central; for the minibus and taxi stand, both the entrance and the exit are located on Harbour View Street.

Routes serving the terminus

As of August 2012, 18 franchised bus routes terminate at Exchange Square, most of them being local routes serving the Southern District (including the area around Aberdeen Harbour as well as Stanley) as well as cross-harbour routes to points in the New Territories.

Feeder transport

• MTR      Tung Chung line and      Airport Express Hong Kong station

See also

• Exchange Square (Hong Kong)

References

• Public Transport Atlas 6th edition, published by Universal Publications
• The Development of Hong Kong Island Bus Routes in the 20th Century by Stanley Yung, published by BSI Hobbies

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Central (Exchange Square) Bus Terminus.

• Terminus Information on Citybus/NWFB Website Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine

This page was last edited on 17 March 2024, at 18:25