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| Overview | |||||||||||||
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| Official name | Kai Tak Tunnel | ||||||||||||
| Other name(s) | Airport Tunnel | ||||||||||||
| Location | Kowloon, Hong Kong | ||||||||||||
| Status | Active | ||||||||||||
| Route | Part of Route 5  | ||||||||||||
| Start | Ma Tau Kok | ||||||||||||
| End | Kowloon Bay | ||||||||||||
| Operation | |||||||||||||
| Opened | 29 June 1982 | ||||||||||||
| Operator | Great Lucky Company Limited | ||||||||||||
| Traffic | Vehicular | ||||||||||||
| Character | Limited-access | ||||||||||||
| Toll | No | ||||||||||||
| Technical | |||||||||||||
| No. of lanes | 4 lanes (2 lanes per direction) | ||||||||||||
| Operating speed | 70 kilometres per hour (43 mph) | ||||||||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 啟德隧道 | ||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 启德隧道 | ||||||||||||
| Jyutping | Kai2 dak1 seoi6 dou6 | ||||||||||||
| Cantonese Yale | Kái dāk seuih douh | ||||||||||||
| Hanyu Pinyin | Qǐdé Suìdào | ||||||||||||
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| Airport Tunnel | |||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 機場隧道 | ||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 机场隧道 | ||||||||||||
| Jyutping | Gei1 coeng4 seoi6 dou6 | ||||||||||||
| Cantonese Yale | Gēi chèuhng seuih douh | ||||||||||||
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Kai Tak Tunnel, formerly known as the Airport Tunnel, is a tunnel in New Kowloon, Hong Kong, which connects the Kowloon Bay and Ma Tau Kok areas by going beneath the former Hong Kong International Airport (Kai Tak Airport). It is part of Route 5.
The tunnel provides a quick link between the two ends of the tunnel, as before the construction of the tunnel vehicles had to detour through Kowloon City to reach the other end.[1][2] Kai Tak Tunnel is currently managed by Greater Lucky (H.K.) Company Limited.