LOHAS Park Station

LOHAS Park is a rapid transit station on the Tseung Kwan O Line of the MTR system in Hong Kong. It opened on 26 July 2009.LocationThe station serves a residential project called LOHAS Park (formerly "Dream City") at Area 86. The first tenders for the construction of Phase 1 were completed in January 2005. Next to the Tseung Kwan O Line Depot, it is the easternmost railway station in Hong Kong.Transit-oriented developmentIn accordance with both MTR's "Rail + Property" funding scheme and one of the goals of the Tseung Kwan O Line being to connect large housing estates on the eastern side of Victoria Harbour to Hong Kong Island, LOHAS Park is a site for transit-oriented development. LOHAS Park will be the largest MTR property development, a 32.08ha site with 50 towers containing 21,500 apartments and approximately 45000m2 of retail.HistoryDuring the construction stages, the station was temporarily named Tseung Kwan O South, after its location in the southern part of the Tseung Kwan O New Town.Since the station opened, the Tseung Kwan O Line has been split into two branches at Tseung Kwan O, with the original northern branch towards Po Lam, and the new southern branch towards LOHAS Park. This is the second branch in the MTR system, after Lok Ma Chau Station on the East Rail Line.Service controversyTo operate the branch, MTR instituted a "3+1" service whereby every fourth train runs to LOHAS Park. After 8 December 2014, MTR instituted a "2+1" service in peak hours. Off peak and Sundays, a shuttle train between LOHAS Park and Tiu Keng Leng would operate. This is one example when the "terminus" of some trains are within intermediate stations.