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Road and Rail Networks

North Hong Kong Island Line

North Hong Kong Island Line

The North Hong Kong Island Line (NIL) is an extension of the existing Tung Chung Line (TCL) along the north shore of Hong Kong Island to run through onto the eastern half of the existing Island Line (ISL) at Fortress Hill Station. Tseung Kwan O Line (TKOL) will join and run through onto the western half of ISL at Tin Hau Station. NIL can relieve the Causeway Bay section of ISL and the Nathan Road section of Tsuen Wan Line (TWL) by redistributing the cross-harbour trips to TCL and TKOL.

According to the Railway Development Strategy 2000, the likely completion window of the project would be between 2008 and 2012. The current estimated cost is 8 billion (2006 prices).

However, with a reduction in the forecast employment in the Central Reclamation due to changes in land use assumptions since the Second Railway Development Study, and the anticipated opening of Shatin to Central Link ahead of the NIL, which would share some of the cross-harbour trips and relieve the Nathan Road section of TWL, it has been decided in early 2003 that the completion of NIL would be deferred to beyond 2016.