Route 7

Route 7
Ching Cheung Road, Lung Cheung Road, Kwun Tong Road, Tseung Kwan O Road, Tseung Kwan O Tunnel, Tseung Kwan O Tunnel Road
Route 7 coloured green
Route information
Length:	17.3 km (10.7 mi)
Existed:	1961 (Lung Cheung Road) – present
Major junctions
From:	Tseung Kwan O
	38; Route 2 at Lam Tin andMong Kok, Route 5 at Kwun Tong and Kwai Chung, Route 1 at Kowloon City, Route 3 at Tsuen Wan
To:	Kwai Chung
Highway system
Hong Kong Strategic Route and Exit Number System ← Route 6 Route 8 →

Route 7 near Ting Fu Street, Ngau Tau Kok

Route 7 (Chinese: 七號幹綫) is a highway route running through New Kowloon in Hong Kong between Tseung Kwan O and Kwai Chung.

The first sections of road (Lung Cheung Road & Ching Cheung Road, built in 1961) were built as a 5 lane trunk road (then called Route 4; renamed when Route 7 on Hong Kong Island was renamed Route 4), it was expanded to the current 6 lane highway. The highway was completed in 1990 following the opening of the Tseung Kwan O Tunnel.

Route 7 consists of three parts:

Route 7 begins in the east at Tseung Kwan O and travels west into Kwun Tong via the Tseung Kwan O Tunnel. It passes under Sau Mau Ping Road and then exits off the freeway mainline onto Kwun Tong Road. The freeway mainline continues as the Kwun Tong Bypass (Route 2).

From Kwun Tong, the route utilises Kwun Tong Road, turning north passing Kowloon Bay and splits with Route 5 at Kai Fuk Road and continues northward to Choi Hung, where it junctions with Prince Edward Road East & Clear Water Bay Road and then the road turns west again and follows Lung Cheung Road passing through Diamond Hill, Wong Tai Sin & Wang Tau Hom and then junctions the entrance of the Lion Rock Tunnel and follows the foothills of northern Kowloon. At Tai Wo Ping, the route interchanges with Tai Po Road, continuing as Ching Cheung Road, bypassing Sham Shui Po & Cheung Sha Wan before terminating at Kwai Chung and joins Route 5 (Hong Kong).

The areas traversed by Route 7 include:

• Tseung Kwan O
• Tseung Kwan O Tunnel
• Kwun Tong
• Wong Tai Sin
• Sham Shui Po
• Lai Chi Kok
• Kwai Chung

Route 7 intersects a number of other highways including:

• Route 1 (Hong Kong)
• Route 2 (Hong Kong)
• Route 3 (Hong Kong)
• Route 5 (Hong Kong)

Observed roads and exits

See also

• Transport in Hong Kong

References

• Hong Kong Guide 2004, HKSAR Government