LOHAS Park Station

LOHAS Park 康城

LOHAS Park Station

Line      Tseung Kwan O Line Code LHP Service hours 0547/0140

District Sai Kung Area Tseung Kwan O Map MTR Website Coordinates 22°17′44″N 114°16′08″E / 22.295653°N 114.268884°E / 22.295653; 114.268884Coordinates: 22°17′44″N 114°16′08″E / 22.295653°N 114.268884°E / 22.295653; 114.268884

Opened 26 July 2009 Type of station Ground Level Type of platforms Island No. of platforms 2 No. of exits 3 No. of escalators 4 No. of lifts 3 No. of shops 2

Station location

LOHAS Park Station
Chinese	康城
Transcriptions Mandarin - Hanyu Pinyin Kāngchéng Cantonese (Yue) - Jyutping hong1 sing4 - Yale Romanization hong1 sing4

LOHAS Park (Chinese: 康城,^[1] Cantonese pronunciation: [hɔŋ˥ sɪŋ˨˩]) is a rapid transit station on the Tseung Kwan O Line of the MTR system in Hong Kong. It opened on 26 July 2009, and is one of the newest stations on the MTR network.

Location

The station serves a residential project called LOHAS Park (formerly called Dream City) located at Area 86. The first tenders for the construction of Phase 1 of the project were completed in January 2005. Built adjacent to the Tseung Kwan O Line Depot, it is currently the easternmost railway station in Hong Kong.

Transit-oriented development

In accordance with both MTR's "Rail + Property" funding scheme as well as one of the goals of the Tseung Wan Line, to connect large housing estates on the eastern side of Victoria Habour to Hong Kong Island, LOHAS Park is a site for transit-oriented development. Of all of MTR's property developments, LOHAS Park will be the largest, a 32.08 ha (79.3 acres) site with 50 towers containing 21,500 apartments and approximately 45,000 m² (480,000 sq ft) of retail upon completion.^[2]

History

During the construction stages, the station was temporarily named Tseung Kwan O South, after its geographical location in the southern part of the Tseung Kwan O New Town.^[3]

Since the station opened, the Tseung Kwan O Line was split into two branches at Tseung Kwan O, with the original northern branch running towards Po Lam, and the new southern branch running towards LOHAS Park. This is the second branch on any line in the MTR system, after Lok Ma Chau Station on the East Rail Line.

Service controversy

The opening of LOHAS Park station required trains on the Tseung Kwan O Line to split after Tseung Kwan O station, whereas before most either terminated en route or at the sole eastern terminus, Po Lam. To accommodate for this change, MTR institute a "3+1" service policy whereby trains would be signalled into groups of four, three of which would consecutively run to Po Lam, while the fourth would diverge and head south to LOHAS Park.^[4] During non-peak hours as well as Sundays, a shuttle train between LOHAS Park and Tiu Keng Lang stations would operate, requiring passengers to switch at the latter station.

Although MTR compensated for the slight reduction of service by decreasing headways throughout the line by ten seconds to 2.5 minutes, residents and passengers have complained that the branched nature of the line has increased delays because of track switch problems. However, MTR claims that its on time rate is still 99.9%.^[5]

Station layout

There are two platforms which form an island platform arrangement. Like the other underground MTR stations, platform screen doors have been installed.

U3 Podium	Podium	Exit C, Passageway to LOHAS Park
U2 Concourse	Concourse	Customer service centre, MTRShops
U1 Platform	Platform 1	Tseung Kwan O Line towards North Point/Po Lam[6]
	Island platforms, doors will open on the left/right
	Platform 2	Tseung Kwan O Line towards North Point/Po Lam[6]
G Ground	Exit	Exit A, transport interchange

Entrances and exits

There are three entrances/exits in the station. One of them will lead to the public transport interchange located adjacent to the station, while the remaining two will lead to LOHAS Park residential development. Exit B has not been built yet and it is reserved for future use.

Ground (G)

• A: Public Transport Interchange

Podium (U3)

• C: LOHAS Park
  • C1: LOHAS Park
  • C2: LOHAS Park

Gallery

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  LOHAS Park Station Exit C1

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  LOHAS Park Station concourse

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  Platform

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  Public transport interchange outside exit A

Neighbouring stations

Preceding station		MTR		Following station
Tseung Kwan O towards North Point		Tseung Kwan O Line		Terminus

References

1. ^ The Chinese name of this station, "康城" comes from the Chinese name of the served nearby housing estate, "日出康城". And the English name of this station, "LOHAS Park", is the same as this housing estate, "LOHAS Park".
2. ^ LOHAS Park property developments: Summary of development details MTR Retrieved 2011-03-04
3. ^ In the most recent business overview MTR used LOHAS Park instead of Tseung Kwan O South to identify the station. The renaming was confirmed on 18 October 2008 when the MTR Corporation held a ceremony to name the station as "LOHAS Park". "將軍澳港鐵新站命名「康城」". Sing Tao Daily. 2008-10-19. http://hk.news.yahoo.com/article/081018/3/8scw.html. Retrieved 2008-10-19. 
4. ^ LOHAS Park station and Tseung Kwan O Line "3+1" new train service arrangement MTR Retrieved 2011-03-04
5. ^ LOHAS Park takes rap - for the delays on the rails The Standard Retrieved 2011-03-04
6. ^ ^{a b} Passengers to Hang Hau Station or Po Lam Station need to change trains to Po Lam at Tseung Kwan O Station. Also, only a shuttle train service that terminating at Tiu Keng Leng Station is provided in non-peak hours.