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| Native name | 旺角道 |
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| Namesake | Mong Kok |
| Location | Mong Kok,Kowloon,Hong Kong |
| Coordinates | 22°19′15″N114°10′07″E / 22.32078°N 114.16869°E /22.32078; 114.16869 |
| West end | Tong Mi Road |
| East end | Sai Yee Street |
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| Traditional Chinese | 旺角道 | ||||||||||||||
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Mong Kok Road (Chinese:旺角道) is a road inKowloon,Hong Kong, running through the entirety ofMong Kok. It begins atTong Mi Road in the west, and runs pastNathan Road until reachingSai Yee Street in the east. There is a footbridge that runs over Mong Kok Road betweenMOKO andPortland Street, providing access betweenMong Kok Station andMong Kok East Station.[1]
Before 1929, today's Mong Kok Road was part of Mong Kok Village (芒角村), which had already been charted and named in an 1866 map by the Italian missionarySimeone Volonteri, marked as Mong Kok.[2][3]
From 1900 to 1904, there was a largereclamation project off the coast ofYau Ma Tei that pushed the coastline fromReclamation Street toFerry Street.[4] In the 1920s, the village gradually lost its land to urban construction of the Government, and by the 1930s was taken possession of by the Government and demolished. The new planned road was named in aGovernment Gazette on 28 Sep 1923:
''Road immediately to the south of Kowloon Inland Lots 1289, 1400, 1431 and 1420 beginning at its junction withTong Mi Road and running in an easterly direction terminating at its junction with Depot Road[today'sSai Yee Street] ... Mong Kok Road 旺 角 道
— No. 411, Hong Kong Government Gazette, 28 September 1923,[5]
Four main roads were erected over the old Mong Kok Village:Sai Yeung Choi Street,Fa Yuen Street,Tung Choi Street, andSai Yee Street.[6] Mong Kok Road was already a bustling street of the city by 1955, especially at its intersection withNathan Road.[7]
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TheMong Kok Pedestrian Footbridge System began construction in 1998 bySun Hung Kai Properties, and the section betweenMong Kok East Station andNathan Road was completed in 2003.[8] After more than two decades of delays,[9] the section of the Footbridge crossing Nathan Road was completed and opened on 30 Sept 2021.[10]
As theMTR was built in the 1970s, and some exits of the Mong Kok Station had occupied the right lanes ofArgyle Street fromSai Yeung Choi Street toPortland Street, thus the government at the time had made the control in effect: vehicles can only travel westbound on Argyle Street between those two streets mentioned above. As a result, vehicles fromTai Kok Tsui via Argyle Street, eastbound towardsKowloon City, should make a left turn ontoReclamation Street and then a right onto Mong Kok Road. After crossing the junction between Mong Kok Road andNathan Road, one shall turn right to eitherSai Yeung Choi Street South orSai Yee Street in order to lead back to Argyle Street. For the same reason, all vehicles are not allowed to make a right turn directly from Nathan Road to Argyle Street, and must follow the route described above. With a large number of buses and minivans passing through this section daily, these intersections have frequently encountered accidents and problems of traffic congestion.[11][12] There have been plans to correct this, but they are still in discussion.[13]
TheMTR'sMong Kok station has two exits on this road: Exits A and B. Exit B directly leads to theMong Kok Road Footbridge System at the intersection of Mong Kok Road andSai Yeung Choi Street South.
Roads are listed West to East.
