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Saturday, September 9, 1972
NEW CENTRAL BUS TERMINUS TO OPEN
The new Central bus terminus, the biggest ever built by the
Government, will come into operation from 6 a.m. on Monday (September 11).
The terminus occupies an area of 55,000 square feet on the
. Central reclamation between the vehicular ferry pier and the new Connaught
Centre building.
It replaces the existing terminus outside the vehicular ferry pier.
The Acting Commissioner for Transport, Mr. R. Butler, said
that altogether there will be about 140 departures an hour from the new terminus.
With the opening on Monday, all traffic leaving the vehicular ferries
will be directed to a new link road on the northern side of the new bus
station and to the west of Connaught Centre for exit onto Connaught Road Central.
Appropriate traffic signs will be posted.
The bus services departing from the new terminus will be:
Route 3A (Felix Villas)
Route 4 (Wah Fu Estate)
Route 4 Express (Wah Fu Estate)
Route 6 (Stanley Prison)
Route 6A (Repulse Bay)
Route 7 (Aberdeen)
Route 7B (Wong Chuk Hang Estate)
Route 12 (Robinson Road)
Route 12A(Macdonnell Road)
Route 15 (Upper Peak Tram Station), and supplementary journeys
on Route 101 via the Cross Harbour Tunnel to Kwun Tong.
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