North Lantau Highway

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North Lantau Highway Part of Route 8

Formed:	1997
West end:	Chek Lap Kok
East end:	near Ng Kwu Leng, Lantau
System:	Hong Kong Stragetic Route System

North Lantau Highway

North Lantau Highway (traditional Chinese: 北大嶼山公路; simplified Chinese: 北大屿山公路; pinyin: Běi Dàyǔshān Gōnglù; Cantonese Yale: bak1 daai6 yu4 saan1 gung1 lou6) is part of Route 8 of Hong Kong, linking the Airport and Lantau Island with the rest of the territory. It is an expressway with 3 lanes for each direction for its entire length with full width hard shoulders for emergencies and breakdowns.

North Lantau Highway is 12.5 kilometres (7.8 miles) in length, starting from Airport Road on Chek Lap Kok. The road then crosses onto Lantau Island and bypasses the Tung Chung New Town. The road then travels along the northern coast of Lantau Island, next to Airport Express and Tung Chung Line of the MTR. This section is built on new reclamation and through various cuttings. Finally, the road climbs over Ta Shui Wan and Tsing Chau Wan to meet the Lantau Link and its bridges.

There are 4 junctions along this road:

Yam O (Exit to Penny's Bay Highway, Yam O and Hong Kong Disneyland Resort);
Tai Ho Wan (Exit to MTR Siu Ho Wan Depot); and
Tung Chung East and Tung Chung North (Exits to Tung Chung)

North Lantau Highway has the highest speed limit in Hong Kong at 110 km/h (68mph).

1 Flooding
2 References
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Flooding

On 2008-06-07 North Lantau Highway was completely flooded at Caribbean Coast, Tung Chung at 6am, under rainfall as high as 145mm in an hour, forcing the highway to close completely, effectively shutting off road access to and from Hong Kong International Airport on Chek Lap Kok. With a water depth of three metres, and the flood extending 500 metres in length, some 20 vehicles were trapped on the scene by the floodwater. Another thousand vehicles were trapped in the resulting traffic jam, extending about 10km long back to the toll plaza of Lantau Link. Service was increased on the MTR Tung Chung Line and Airport Express to alleviate passenger flow.

The highway was partially reopened starting from 4pm that day.^[1]^[2]