Hiram's Highway
Hiram's Highway (traditional Chinese: 西貢公路; simplified Chinese: 西贡公路; Pinyin: Xīgòng Gōnglù; Cantonese Yale: sai1 gung3 gung1 lou6) is a road that connects the town of Sai Kung to the Clear Water Bay Road at Ta Ku Ling. It connects the Po Tung Road in the north.
A new straightened road, the New Hiram's Highway, near Nam Wai was opened recently to provide an alternative route, bypassing a steep, bendy section of the original road.
Unlike other roads in Hong Kong with the word "Highway" as part of their names, the Hiram's Highway is not a motorway/an expressway.
It earned its name from its reconstuction of a Japanese track in the immediate post Second World War years by the Royal Marines. The officer in charge, K Potts, was nicknamed Hiram ('Hiram K Potts') because of his alleged passion for an American brand of tinned sausages. Hence 'Hiram's Highway'.
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