Hiram's Highway

Hiram's Highway

Hiram's Highway (traditional Chinese: 西貢公路; simplified Chinese: 西贡公路; pinyin: Xīgòng Gōnglù; Cantonese Yale: sai1 gung3 gung1 lou6) is a road in Hong Kong. It connects the town of Sai Kung to the Clear Water Bay Road at Ta Ku Ling. It connects the Po Tung Road in the north.

A new straightened road, the New Hiram's Highway, near Nam Wai was opened recently to provide an alternative route, bypassing a steep, bendy section of the original road.

Unlike other roads in Hong Kong with the word "Highway" as part of their names, the Hiram's Highway is not a motorway/an expressway.

It earned its name from its reconstruction of a Japanese track in the immediate post Second World War years by the Royal Marines. The officer in charge, K Potts, was nicknamed Hiram ('Hiram K Potts') because of his alleged passion for an American brand of tinned sausages. Hence 'Hiram's Highway'.[1]

See also

Footnotes

  1. ^ Hebe and Hiram, The naming of Sai Kung - Exploresaikung.com

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