DAVE ROGERS has been sampling and photographing the new bus service on the world’s longest bridge (and tunnel), with doubledeckers connecting Hong Kong with Macau and the fast-growing Chinese city of Zhuhai, and fed by new or diverted routes on the Hong Kong side
The new £15.3billion bridge linking Hong Kong with Zhuhai and Macau (HZMB) was opened to the public on 24 October, a day after an official opening by China’s President Xi Jinping.
At 55km (34miles), it has become the world’s longest fixed sea crossing, and to allow shipping to pass has a 6.7km (4.2mile) tunnel linked by two man made islands close to the Hong Kong side, and a high suspension bridge closer to the Macau/ Zhuhai side. Journey time across the bridge is approximately 30min.
Macau is the Las Vegas of the Far East, with many casinos. It attracts many visitors from Hong Kong, where gambling, other than for horse racing, is illegal. Zhuhai is a huge and rapidly developing city, with a large industrial and manufacturing sector. It is joined on to Macau, separated only by the border fence between the former Portuguese territory and the Chinese mainland.
Franchised buses are not allowed to operate on the bridge, and services are provided b…
