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Yuen Long Highway

Coordinates: 22°26′05″N 114°01′29″E / 22.43485°N 114.024762°E / 22.43485; 114.024762
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Yuen Long Highway
Part of Route 9
Route information
Maintained by Highways Department
Length10.0 km (6.2 mi)
Existed1 July 1993–present
Major junctions
East endKam Tin (near Au Tau)
Major intersections6;
Route 3 at Au Tau
Route 10 at Lam Tei
West endTuen Mun (near Fu Tei)
Location
CountryChina
Special administrative regionHong Kong
Highway system
Yuen Long Highway in the direction of Tuen Mun

Yuen Long Highway (Chinese: 元朗公路; pinyin: Yuánlǎng Gōnglù; Cantonese Yale: yun4 long5 gung1 lou6) is a Hong Kong expressway connecting Au Tau in Yuen Long and Lam Tei in Tuen Mun of New Territories.

Part of Route 9, it bypasses Yuen Long Town and the rural areas of Lam Tei, Hung Shui Kiu and Ping Shan, providing a continuation of Tuen Mun Road to Yuen Long District.

History

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Yuen Long Highway was completed in phases. The section known as "Yuen Long to Tuen Mun Eastern Corridor" during planning stage, which links the Lam Tei and Tong Yan San Tsuen interchanges, was opened on 1 July 1993. This was followed by the "Yuen Long Southern Bypass" between Tong Yan San Tsuen and Pok Oi Hospital by way of the Shap Pat Heung Interchange, the construction of which started in 1992 and finished in December 1994.

The opening of the Tai Lam Tunnel in 1998 brought additional traffic flows to Yuen Long Highway, causing congestion around the Pok Oi Interchange. A dual two-lane vehicular bridge was therefore constructed above the interchange with a view to easing the traffic volume channelling through the roundabout. With the opening of Pok Oi Flyover on 5 February 1999, vehicles travelling between Yuen Long Highway and Tai Lam Tunnel or San Tin Highway no longer have to enter the roundabout at Pok Oi Interchange.[1]

In order to accommodate the expected traffic from Route 10 cross-border corridor to and from Shekou/Dongjiaotou in Shenzhen over Deep Bay, the road had been finished upgrading to a dual 3-lane carriageway from its original dual 2-lane carriageway in February 2006.

Interchanges

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Yuen Long Highway
Location km Interchange name Exit Destinations Notes
Au Tau 38.2 Au Tau Interchange San Tin Highway – Lok Ma Chau, Sheung Shui Northern terminus; Route 9 continues.
39.2 12 Route 3 ( Tsing Long Highway) – Tsuen Wan, Kowloon Northbound exit and southbound entrance
39.9 Pok Oi Interchange 13 Castle Peak Road - Yuen Long – Yuen Long Southbound exit and northbound entrance
Reverse direction traffic exit via Shap Pat Heung Interchange
Shap Pat Heung 41.0 Shap Pat Heung Interchange Shap Pat Heung Road / Tai Kei Leng Road – Yuen Long (South), Tai Tong
43.2 Tong Yan San Tsuen Interchange 14 Long Tin Road (Yuen Long West Link) – Yuen Long (West), Tin Shui Wai (East)
Hung Shui Kiu 44.6 Tin Shui Wai West Interchange 15 Hung Tin Road – Hung Shui Kiu, Tin Shui Wai (West), Wetland Park
Lam Tei 46.6 Lam Tei Interchange 16 Route 10 ( Kong Sham Western Highway) – Shenzhen Bay
Fu Tei 47.6 Lam Tei Interchange 17 Castle Peak Road - Lingnan – Fu Tei, University
Castle Peak Road - Lam Tei – Lam Tei
Tsing Lun Road – Tuen Mun (West)
Southbound exit and northbound entrance
48.1 Tuen Mun Road – Tuen Mun Town, Kowloon Southern terminus; Route 9 continues.
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
  •       Route transition

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Pok Oi Flyover to be opened to traffic on Friday" (Press release). Transport Department. 1999-02-03.
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Preceded by
San Tin Highway
Hong Kong Route 9

Yuen Long Highway
Succeeded by
Tuen Mun Road

22°26′05″N 114°01′29″E / 22.43485°N 114.024762°E / 22.43485; 114.024762