Tai Po Road

Tai Po Road
大埔公路
Route information
Length	21.9 km (13.6 mi) 1.6 km (0.99 mi) Tai Wo section 1.1 km (0.68 mi) Yuen Chau Tsai section 3.6 km (2.2 mi) Tai Po Kau section 2.8 km (1.7 mi) Ma Liu Shui section 4.0 km (2.5 mi) Sha Tin section 1.2 km (0.75 mi) Tai Wai section 3.3 km (2.1 mi) Sha Tin Heights section 1.2 km (0.75 mi) Piper's Hill section 3.1 km (1.9 mi) Section in Kowloon
Existed	1902–present
Major junctions
South end	Cheung Sha Wan Road at Mong Kok
Major intersections	Castle Peak Road at Sham Shui Po Route 7 at Lai Chi Kok Route 8 at Tai Wai Route 9 from Sha Tin to Ma Liu Shui Route 1 at Fo Tan Route 9 at Island House
North end	Kwong Fuk Road/Nam Wan Road at Tai Po South
Location
Country	China
Special administrative region	Hong Kong
Highway system
Transport in Hong Kong Routes Roads and Streets

Tai Po Road (Chinese: 大埔公路; pinyin: Dà bù gōnglù) is the second longest road in Hong Kong (after Castle Peak Road). It spans from Sham Shui Po in Kowloon to Tai Po in the New Territories of Hong Kong. Initially, the road was named Frontier Road.

Location

The road begins at Nathan Road near Sham Shui Po, runs through the valley between Golden Hill and Beacon Hill, and connects to Sha Tin. It then continues northward along Sha Tin Hoi and Tai Po Hoi.

History

Built in 1902, Tai Po Road is one of the earliest major roads in the New Territories. Until the completion of the Lion Rock Tunnel in 1967, Tai Po Road was the main road connecting the New Territories with Kowloon.^[1] Before the construction of the Fanling Highway in the 1980s, the road connected Fanling and Sheung Shui.

On 10 February 2018, at approximately 18:13 HKT, a Kowloon Motor Bus (KMB) double-decker bus flipped onto its side on Tai Po Road. The crash killed 19 people and injured 65.

The incident was Hong Kong's second deadliest road traffic accident, behind a 2003 incident on Tuen Mun Road that killed 21.^[2]

Gallery

• 
  Tai Po Road Piper's Hill Section in June 2008
• 
  Tai Po Road Sha Tin Section in March 2014

See also

• 2018 Hong Kong bus accident
• List of streets and roads in Hong Kong
• Castle Peak Road
• Mang Gui Kiu
• North Kowloon Magistracy, located at No. 292 Tai Po Road

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tai Po Road.

• Google Maps of Tai Po Road:
  • All sections except Tai Wo (大窩段)
  • Tai Wo section (大窩段)

Preceded by Shing Mun Tunnel Road

Hong Kong Route 9 Tai Po Road — Sha Tin

Succeeded by Tolo Highway

22°23′20″N 114°11′37″E / 22.38893°N 114.19353°E / 22.38893; 114.19353

This page was last edited on 11 April 2024, at 06:35