 Western Harbour Crossing tunnel entrance and exit at West Kowloon side. | |
| Overview | |
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| Coordinates | 22°18′5″N 114°9′24″E / 22.30139°N 114.15667°E |
| Status | Active |
| Route | Part of Route 3  |
| Start | West Kowloon |
| End | Sai Ying Pun |
| Operation | |
| Constructed | August 1993 to April 1997 |
| Opened | 30 April 1997 |
| Owner | Hong Kong Government |
| Operator | Pacific Infrastructure Limited |
| Traffic | Vehicular |
| Character | immersed tube |
| Toll | Yes |
| Vehicles per day | ~180,000 |
| Technical | |
| Length | 1,975 metres (6,480 ft) |
| No. of lanes | 6 lanes (3 lanes per direction) in road tunnel with 4 lanes per direction on exit |
| Operating speed | 80 kilometres per hour (50 mph) |
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| Traditional Chinese | 西區海底隧道 | ||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 西区海底隧道 | ||||||||||||
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The Western Harbour Crossing (WHC) is a dual three-lane immersed tube tunnel in Hong Kong. It is the third road tunnel to cross Victoria Harbour, linking reclaimed land in Yau Ma Tei in West Kowloon with Sai Ying Pun on Hong Kong Island. It was constructed by the Western Harbour Tunnel Company Limited (WHTCL), which also operated the tunnel from 1993 to 2023 under a build-operate-transfer (BOT) on a 30-year franchise contract with the Hong Kong government.
The tunnel is the first three-lane road tunnel in Asia to be constructed using submerged pipe.[1]: 7–11 It was built as part of the Airport Core Programme, which included other infrastructure projects to support the Hong Kong International Airport at Chek Lap Kok. The tunnel carries on the Route 3 designation from the West Kowloon Highway and connects to Route 4 on Hong Kong Island.
- ^ OMEGA Centre of Excellence work on Mega Urban Transport Projects (25 July 2011). Project Profile: Hong Kong West Harbour Crossing (PDF) (Report). UCL Bartlett School of Planning. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 September 2014.