![]() Entrance to Eastern Harbour Crossing at Cha Kwo Ling in July 2008 | |
Overview | |
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Location | Beneath Victoria Harbour, between Quarry Bay and Lam Tin (near Cha Kwo Ling) |
Coordinates | 22°17′58.15″N 114°13′51.97″E / 22.2994861°N 114.2311028°E |
Status | Active |
System | Part of Route 2 ![]() |
Start | Quarry Bay |
End | Lam Tin (near Cha Kwo Ling) |
Operation | |
Opened | 21 September 1989[1] |
Owner | Hong Kong Government (Road Tunnel) MTR Corporation (Superficies and Track Tunnel) |
Operator | Pacific Infrastructure Limited[2] |
Traffic | Vehicular and Rail |
Character | immersed tube |
Vehicles per day | 71471 (2022) |
Technical | |
Line length | 2.29 kilometres (1.42 mi) |
No. of tracks | 2 tracks (1 per direction) in train tunnel |
No. of lanes | 4 lanes (2 lanes per direction) in road tunnel with 6 lanes (3 lanes per direction) on exit |
Track gauge | 1,432 mm (4 ft 8+3⁄8 in) |
Operating speed | 70 kilometres per hour (43 mph) (within road tunnel) 50 kilometres per hour (31 mph) (exit and entrance to road tunnel) |
Eastern Harbour Crossing | |
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Part of Route 2 | |
Major junctions | |
West end | Quarry Bay |
2 in total;![]() | |
East end | Lam Tin (near Cha Kwo Ling) |
Location | |
Country | China |
Special administrative region | Hong Kong |
Major cities | Kwun Tong, Quarry Bay |
Highway system | |
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Traditional Chinese | 東區海底隧道 | ||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 东区海底隧道 | ||||||||||||
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The Eastern Harbour Crossing (Chinese: 東區海底隧道), abbreviated as "EHC" (Chinese: 東隧), is a combined road-rail tunnel that crosses beneath Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong. Opened on 21 September 1989, it is the second harbour-crossing tunnel built and the longest amongst the three. It connects Quarry Bay on Hong Kong Island and Cha Kwo Ling in Kowloon East.
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