Lung Cheung Road

Lung Cheung Road near Wong Tai Sin.

Lung Cheung Road (Chinese: 龍翔道) is a major road in New Kowloon, Hong Kong.It forms part of Route 7 linking Kwun Tong Road at Ngau Chi Wan and Ching Cheung Road near Tai Wo Ping. It is a dual 3-lane carriageway running in the east-west direction for its entire length.

Kwun Tong (connected by Kwun Tong Road) in Eastern Kowloon was the main manufacturing centre of Hong Kong during the 1960s. To provide a more efficient link to the Kwai Tsing Container Terminals and other industrial districts in the west, two roads were built along the hills to the north of developed Kowloon. The easterly one is Lung Cheung Road,the other being Ching Cheung Road.It opened on January 24, 1961.The section of between Wong Tai Sin and Choi Hung of the Kwun Tong Line was built under the road.

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    Preceded by
    Kwun Tong Road    		 Hong Kong Route 7

    Lung Cheung Road         		Succeeded by
    Ching Cheung Road

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