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HONG KONG-Cross-border buses operated by
Hong Kong companies on Friday started trial runs on the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao
Bridge (HZMB) in preparation for the bridge's upcoming opening.
"The trial runs, arranged by the
governments of the Chinese mainland, the Hong Kong Special Administrative
Region (SAR) and the Macao SAR, would last for three days and aimed at testing
the readiness of boundary crossing facilities (设施) of the three places,"
the Hong Kong SAR government's Transport and Housing Bureau told Xinhua.
Two major cross-boundary coach trade
associations in Hong Kong were invited to send buses and members to participate
in the trial runs.
Freeman Cheung, secretary of Hong Kong
Guangdong Boundary Crossing Bus Association, said his association would run one
bus with about 10 passengers on Friday and Saturday respectively as part of the
trial runs.
"Our bus started at noon from the Hong
Kong Boundary Crossing Facilities and ran all the way to Zhuhai in about 40
minutes," he said, adding that "the journey was smooth."
Alan Chan, secretary of another trade
association who participated in the trial runs as a passenger, said the
clearance procedures at boundary crossing facilities of the three places all
went on well and smoothly.
"The boundary crossing facilities of
Zhuhai and Macao, in particular, are operated in a collaborative (合作的) way, which helps remarkably shorten the time needed for the
clearance procedures," he said.
The HZMB, situated at the waters of
Lingdingyang of Pearl River Estuary, is a mega-size sea crossing linking the
Hong Kong SAR, Zhuhai city of Guangdong Province and the Macao SAR.
The 55-km bridge is the longest
bridge-and-tunnel (隧道) sea crossing in the
world.
The bridge is meant to meet the demand of
passenger and freight land transport among Hong Kong, the Chinese
mainland and Macao, and to establish a new land transport link between the east
and west banks of the Pearl River.