Hong Kong will get a special Christmas gift this year: our longest, deepest, largest underwater tunnel yet. The dual carriageway provides a second way to drive to the airport on Lantau island. For sailors, the new airport road ends a bizarre anomaly. The sea between Lantau and Tuen Mun has long been known as Urmston Road, despite the fact that it is clearly not a road, but Hong Kong's busiest sea channel. [Experiment for Hong Kong Tesla owners: tell your car's built-in autopilot to take you to Urmston Road.

Source: The Standard November 19, 2020 19:07 UTC