Tai Po Road

Tai Po Road (Kowloon portion)
Tai Po Road (Kowloon portion)
Chinese	大埔道
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Dàbù Dào
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization	daai6 bou3 dou6
Tai Po Road (New Territories portion)
Chinese	大埔公路
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Dàbù Gōnglù
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization	daai6 bou3 gung1 lou6

Tai Po Road
Tai Po Road
大埔公路
Route information
Length	21.9 km (13.6 mi) 1.6 km (0.99 mi) Tai Wo section; 1.1 km (0.68 mi) Yuen Chau Tsai section; 3.6 km (2.2 mi) Tai Po Kau section; 2.8 km (1.7 mi) Ma Liu Shui section; 4.0 km (2.5 mi) Sha Tin section; 1.2 km (0.75 mi) Tai Wai section; 3.3 km (2.1 mi) Sha Tin Heights section; 1.2 km (0.75 mi) Piper's Hill section; 3.1 km (1.9 mi) Section in Kowloon
Existed	1902–present
Major junctions
South end	Cheung Sha Wan Road at Mong Kok
	Castle Peak Road at Sham Shui Po; Route 7 at Lai Chi Kok; Route 8 at Tai Wai; Route 9 from Sha Tin to Ma Liu Shui; Route 1 at Fo Tan; Route 9 at Island House
North end	Kwong Fuk Road/Nam Wan Road at Tai Po South
Location
Country	China
Special administrative region	Hong Kong
Highway system
	Transport in Hong Kong; Routes; Roads and Streets;

Tai Po Road is the second longest road in Hong Kong (after Castle Peak Road). It spans from Sham Shui Po in Kowloon to Tai Po in the New Territories of Hong Kong. Initially, the road was named Frontier Road.

Location

The road begins at Nathan Road near Sham Shui Po, runs through the valley between Golden Hill and Beacon Hill, and connects to Sha Tin. It then continues northward along Sha Tin Hoi and Tai Po Hoi.

History

Built in 1902, Tai Po Road is one of the earliest major roads in the New Territories. Until the completion of the Lion Rock Tunnel in 1967, Tai Po Road was the main road connecting the New Territories with Kowloon.^[1] Before the construction of the Fanling Highway in the 1980s, the road connected Fanling and Sheung Shui.

On 10 February 2018, at approximately 18:13 HKT, a Kowloon Motor Bus (KMB) double-decker bus flipped onto its side on Tai Po Road. The crash killed 19 people and injured 65.

The incident was Hong Kong's second deadliest road traffic accident, behind a 2003 incident on Tuen Mun Road that killed 21.^[2]