Hiram's Highway
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Hiram's Highway (Chinese: 西貢公路) is a road that connects the town of Sai Kung to the Clear Water Bay Road at Ta Ku Ling. It connects the Po Tung Road in the north.
A new straightened road, the New Hiram's Highway, near Nam Wai was opened recently to provide an alternative route, bypassing a steep, bendy section of the original road.
Unlike other roads in Hong Kong with the word "Highway" as part of their names, the Hirams Highway is not an expressway.
It earned its name from its reconstuction of a Japanese track in the immediate post Second World War years by the Royal Marines. The officer in charge was nicknamed 'Hiram' because of his alleged passion for an American brand of tinned suasages, 'Hiram K Potts'. Hence 'Hirams Highway'.
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