Gloucester Road, Hong Kong
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Gloucester Road as viewed from a pedestrian footbridge
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| Chinese | 告士打道 | ||||||||||
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| Hanyu Pinyin | Gàoshìdǎ Dào |
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| Yale Romanization | gou3 si6 da2 dou6 |
Gloucester Road (/ˈɡlɒstər/) (Chinese: 告士打道) is a major road in Hong Kong. It is one of the only roads in Hong Kong with service roads. The road was named on June 14, 1929 after Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, to commemorate his visit to Hong Kong that year. The road is 2.2 kilometres in length and has a speed limit of 70 km/h.
Gloucester Road is in the north of Wan Chai and East Point on Hong Kong Island. It connects to Harcourt Road at its western end and it ends east along west side of Victoria Park. It forms part of Hong Kong's Route 4 and connects to the Island Eastern Corridor via Victoria Park Road before completion of Central Wan Chai Bypass. The road is connected to the Cross-Harbour Tunnel near the Canal Road Flyover.It runs almost parallel to Lockhart Road.
The road was built between 1922 and 1929 by reclamation as a two-lane road on the seafront. It then only connected the Royal Naval Arsenal Yard in Admiralty and Percival Street in Causeway Bay. It was extended to Cleveland Street after World War II. A canal west of Victoria Park Road is also reclaimed to form part of Gloucester Road.
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