Eastern Harbour Crossing
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| Part of Route 2 | |
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| Maintained by Highways Department | |
| Length: | 3.3 km (2.1 mi) |
| Existed: | 1989 – present |
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| West end: | Quarry Bay |
2 in total; Route 4 at Quarry Bay
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| East end: | Lam Tin (near Cha Kwo Ling) |
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| Major cities: | Kwun Tong, Quarry Bay |
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Entrance to Eastern Harbour Crossing at Cha Kwo Ling
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| Traditional Chinese | 東區海底隧道 | ||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 东区海底隧道 | ||||||||||
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Dōngqū Hǎidǐ Suìdào |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Yale Romanization | Dūngkēui Hóidái Seuihdouh |
The Eastern Harbour Crossing, abbreviated as "EHC" (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 East.
The Hong Kong Government negotiated with several consortia to adopt the Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) model in planning new tunnels in different parts of the city.
In 1986, the government gave New Hong Kong Tunnel the right to run the Tunnel on a 30-year franchisee with lease expiring in August 2016. The tunnel features two components, a road part and a rail part:
The powerful Chinese investment group CITIC Pacific is interested in both parts, controlling the road part (71% stake) and has a 50% stake in the rail part. CITIC also controls 50% of the Western Harbour Tunnel Company.
The Cross Harbour Tunnel is located right below a 14 year old residential complex — Yau Lai Estate.
Tolls are collected manually or electronically in both directions at the toll plaza on the Kwun Tong side.
According to the operator, in 2013, a total number of 26.3 million vehicles used the Eastern Harbour Crossing. The average daily throughput was 72.1 thousands.
There are many cross-harbour bus routes that travel through the Eastern Harbour Crossing, operated by Kowloon Motor Bus, New World First Bus and Citybus.
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