Hong Kong bus route numbering
system for numbering bus routes in Hong Kong
In Hong Kong, public bus, public light bus (also known as green minibus) and residential bus routes bear their own route numbers.
Public buses
The numbering systems of public buses can be classified into Hong Kong Island routes, Kowloon and New Territories routes, Lantau Island (New Lantao Bus) routes, MTR Bus routes, cross-Harbour routes and Airport and North Lantau external bus routes. Their route numbering systems are independent except cross harbour routes. For example, there are both route 1, and route 2 on Hong Kong Island, Kowloon and Lantau Island respectively.
Route 200-299 (Kowloon and New Territories) and 500-599 (Hong Kong Island) were previously deluxe bus services, and it became mandatory to be air-conditioned in 1990s except for emergency situation (e.g. opening of Tsing Ma Bridge, air-con bus breakdown, fleet shortages) during Kowloon Motor Bus and China Motor Bus time. The new operators in Hong Kong Island requires replacement of all non-aircon buses. Since the withdrawal of the last non-aircon bus in 2008 (Citybus/New World First Bus; which is route 15C) and 2012 (Kowloon Motor Bus), all bus routes in Hong Kong are required to have an inbuilt air-conditioning system and retains their numbering system in place. Also, on 11 February 2014, Citybus had withdrew the last non-aircon open-top bus from service.
At one time, there were two "N11" bus routes in Tung Chung, namely, Airport overnight route N11 and Lantau Island overnight route N11.
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