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Traditional Chinese
  
銅鑼灣

Literal meaning
  
Copper gong bay

Yale Romanization
  
tung4 lo4 waan1

Address
  
East Point, Hong Kong

Owner
  
MTR Corporation

Simplified Chinese
  
铜锣湾

Hanyu Pinyin
  
Tóngluówān

IPA
  
[tʰʊ̏ŋ lɔ̏ː wáːn]

Opened
  
31 May 1985

Level
  
2

Causeway Bay Station

Similar
  
Times Square, Central Station, Tin Hau Station, Tsim Sha Tsui Station, Wan Chai Station

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Causeway Bay (Chinese: 銅鑼灣) is a station on the MTR network on Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. The station is between Wan Chai and Tin Hau stations on the Island Line. It serves the locality of Causeway Bay and the Happy Valley Racecourse within Wan Chai District.

Contents

Walk to times square from causeway bay station the quickest route


History

In 1967, Freeman Fox and Wilbur Smith Associates released the government-commissioned Mass Transport Study, which proposed a new underground railway. The plan included the Island Line between Kennedy Town and Chai Wan stations. When the Mass Transport Provisional Authority was founded, minor alterations were made with the Sheung Wan to Kennedy Town section cancelled. The government gave approval on the 95-million-dollar construction of the line on 23 December 1980 and work started in October 1982. The first section of the line opened from Admiralty to Chai Wan on 31 May 1985.

Services

The station is situated between Wan Chai and Tin Hau stations on the Island Line. The typical off-peak service is 17 trains per hour in both directions, which is a train every 3–6 minutes. There was a time when there was a special service in operation between Admiralty and Tai Koo on the Island Line due to shortage of train operators. This service was withdrawn after 1 October 1986, about 5 months after the extension to Sheung Wan.

Station layout

The platforms of Causeway Bay station are constructed in a stacked arrangement, with platform 1 above platform 2.

Entrances/exits

Causeway Bay is a primary shopping district in Hong Kong with exits from the MTR leading directly into major outlets such as Sogo and Times Square, which can be accessed through a long, upward sloping pedestrian walkway at Exit A.

Unlike other MTR stations, there are three different concourses in Causeway Bay station. After exiting the paid areas through the turnstiles, the other two concourses are inaccessible underground. The west and east concourses were opened on 31 May 1985 with the opening of the station, while the south concourse and Exit A were opened in 1994 with the opening of Times Square.

South concourse

In the basement of Times Square:

  • A: Times Square
  • West concourse

    In the basement of Causeway Bay Plaza (Phase 1):

  • B: Causeway Bay Plaza
  • C: Sino Plaza
  • East concourse

    In the basement of Sogo Department Store:

  • D1/D2/D3/D4: Sogo Department Store
  • E: Great George Street, (Next to Body Shop)
  • F1: Jardine's Crescent
  • F2: Hysan Place
  • Bus routes

    These are the bus routes found in the vicinity of Causeway Bay station that provide connections with other areas not served by the MTR including Aberdeen/Wah Kwai Estate, Braemar Hill, Happy Valley, Jardine's Lookout, Kennedy Town, Lai Tak Tsuen, Lei Tung Estate, Park Road, Sham Wan/Wong Chuk Hang, Nam Cheong Station/Hoi Lai Estate, South Horizons, The Peak, Tin Wan, Tsing Yi/Cheung On, Wah Fu.

    Hong Kong Tramways (exit A)

    Hong Kong Island's tramway system consists of an inner loop branching out at Causeway Bay towards Happy Valley. The nearest tram stop is located along Percival Street near the end of Matheson Street.

    Plans to expand Causeway Bay Station

    In November 2006, MTR announced they would build an underground shopping mall and expand the current Causeway Bay station. The station will add 5 new exits:

  • E1: East Point Road
  • E2: Great George Street at Hong Kong Building
  • F1: Former Hennessy Center
  • F2: Yee Wo Street at McDonald's Building
  • F3: Paterson Street
  • and the current Exit E (Great George Street next to The Body Shop) will be removed. The plan also triples the current station size.

    References

    Causeway Bay Station Wikipedia


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