Tsing Ma Control Area
{{Short description|Hong Kong highway management area}}
Tsing Ma Control Area (Chinese: 青馬管制區; TMCA) is an area covering Lantau Link and related road networks in the New Territories, Hong Kong, including Tsing Ma Bridge, Kap Shui Mun Bridge, Ma Wan Viaduct (all part of the Lantau Link), Cheung Tsing Highway, Cheung Tsing Tunnel, Cheung Tsing Bridge (Cheung Tsing Tunnel and Cheung Tsing Bridge {{cn-span|date=October 2021|form part of Tsing Kwai Highway|reason=Part of Cheung Tsing Highway or Tsing Kwai Highway?}}), Ting Kau Bridge (belongs to Tsing Long Highway, a part of Route 3), {{ill|North West Tsing Yi Interchange|yue|青衣西北交匯處}} (also belongs at Route 3), Tsing Kwai Highway and North Lantau Highway, but excluding the area of rails managed by the MTRCL.
The area spans on {{convert|17|km|mi}} of road network on Tsing Yi Island, Ma Wan, Lantau Island and Kwai Chung. Extra traffic regulations are enforced in the area.
The area is currently managed and maintained by the Tsing Ma Management Limited. One of its incomes is collecting toll and fee of Lantau Link at Lantau Toll Plaza.{{outdated-inline|date=October 2021}}
TMCA maintains two double-ended wide-body ambulances, dispatched in the event of a major traffic accident. They were converted from retired Neoplan Airliner N 922-2 airport buses.
External links
- [https://archive.today/20130107194739/http://www.tsingma.com.hk/Web_pages/Intro_tmca/intro_tmca_e.htm A brief introduction by Tsing Ma Management Limited]
- [http://www.legislation.gov.hk/blis_ind.nsf/e1bf50c09a33d3dc482564840019d2f4/6a157e58771051748825649e00746ba8?OpenDocument Legislation on the Tsing Ma Control Area (Chapter 498 in the Law of Hong Kong)]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20060813191950/http://www.tsingma.com.hk/Web_pages/Regulations_tmca/Regulations_e.htm Regulations in the area]