Cross Bay Link

The Cross Bay Link at Tseung Kwan O, New Territories, Hong Kong is a proposed 1.8 km bridge that connects the Tseung Kwan O Industrial Estate and LOHAS Park area with the proposed Tseung Kwan O – Lam Tin Tunnel. The bridge will consists of a road, pedestrian walkways and bicycle lanes.

The site of the bridge link (February, 2020).
Construction site in 2018. Looking toward Tseung Kwan O.
The site of the bridge link (2010).

History

On 16 March 2009, Ove Arup & Partners Hong Kong Limited was employed to undertake the investigation and preliminary design of Cross Bay Link.

A My vision of the Cross Bay Link Design Ideas Invitation event was held in August 2009 and the winning entry was selected on 9 November 2009. In March 2010, six bridge design options collected have been developed for detailed evaluation.[1]

On 6 July 2010, after detailed analysis of public engagement results and technical assessments, the Eternity Arch was selected as the preferred option for Cross Bay Link to the next phase of design works.[2]

AECOM was employed to carry out the detailed design and supervise the construction.

In 2018, the HK$2.5 billion contract to construct the bridge was awarded to China Road and Bridge Corporation. Hewson Consulting and Meinhardt Infrastructure & Environment Ltd. were appointed as the designers for China Road and Bridge Corporation to provide alternative permanent works design, erection engineering and temporary works design for the bridgeworks.

Design controversy

District councillor Fan Kwok Wai claims that although the bridge's design is similar to Nanning Yonghe Bridge in Guangxi, he believe it is not a direct copy. Civil Engineering and Development Department chief engineer Wong Wai Man claims that there are thousands of bridges in the world that are over 200m long, there is no way they can go through all of them to make sure the CBL is not similar to another bridge in design.[3]

See also
  • Tunnels and bridges in Hong Kong

References
  1. (in Chinese)將軍澳跨灣大橋六揀一 The Sun. 10 March 2010.
  2. What's New Archived 25 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine CBL-TKO official website – What's New. 6 July 2010.
  3. (in Chinese)將軍澳跨灣橋造價22億 Wen Wei Po. 7 July 2010.

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