New section of Hong Kong’s Central Kowloon Bypass to ‘slash travel time by 80%’

Hong Kong’s long-awaited Yau Ma Tei section of the Central Kowloon Bypass opened on Sunday, with eight bus routes – including three new ones – to begin operating on Monday, cutting peak-hour travel time between West and East Kowloon from 30 minutes to just five. Traffic began to build at about 10am as Shing Kai Road in Kai Tak connected to the new link. Among the first drivers eager to test the route was engineer Edwin Chan Yat-man, 36, who travelled from his home in Kwun Tong to Mong Kok, and...