Construction and Operation
Tai Lam Tunnel is a Build-Operate-Transfer (B.O.T) project with a franchise period of 30 years (including construction period). Its total construction cost was HK$7.25 billion. Construction on Tai Lam Tunnel started in late May 1995 and was officially opened to traffic on 25 May 1998 to match with the opening of the new Hong Kong International Airport.
The designed traffic capacity of Tai Lam Tunnel is 140,000 vehicles per day. In 2011, the average daily traffic was over 52,000 vehicles.
According to the statistics from Transport Department, Tai Lam Tunnel has excellent safety records. In 2011, the accident rate per million vehicle-km was just 0.07.
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