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Highways Department is a department of the Hong Kong Government responsible for developing Hong Kong's road and railway network as well as road maintenance.
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Formed | 1986 |
Headquarters | Ho Man Tin Government Offices, 88 Chung Hau Street, Ho Man Tin, Kowloon |
Employees | 2 510 (Mar 2022)[1] |
Annual budget | HK$4,270 million (2022-23 FY)[1] |
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Website | www |
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Chinese | 路政署 | ||||||||||||
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The department was previously an office within the former Civil Engineering Department and became an independent department on 1 June 1986 due to the increasingly complex road network in Hong Kong.[3]
In 2024, it launched street signs with a new font to "infuse a strong cultural atmosphere into the community's landscape" to support the government's Task Force on District Governance, with the new font drawing criticism.[4]
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