Hong Kong residents and visitors are estimated to make 11 million inward and outbound trips over the Easter weekend and the Ching Ming Festival, with the city’s Immigration Department expecting numbers to peak on Good Friday.
The department said on Monday, after discussions with mainland Chinese counterparts, that they anticipate about 9.5 million trips will be made through land checkpoints between Thursday and April 7.
About 1.5 million more people are expected to depart or arrive by land and sea.
About 9.5 million land border crossings are expected over the upcoming holidays. Photo: May Tse
Officials said the number of outbound people using land border checkpoints would account for 601,000 trips on Friday and 589,000 inbound journeys next Monday as Hongkongers returned.
The department said it expected heavy traffic, with about 207,000 people using the Lo Wu crossing, 169,000 at Lok Ma Chau Spur Line and 143,000 at the Hong Kong-Zhuhai- Macau Bridge.
Easter Sunday falls on March 31…