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19-615: New World First Bus Services Limited ( NWFB ) was the third-largest bus operator in Hong Kong. Established by NWS Holdings and FirstGroup in September 1998, it took over 88 China Motor Bus services in Hong Kong Island . From 2020 until its merger with Citybus in 2023, it was a subsidiary of Bravo Transport , the owner of Citybus. The NWFB brand was retired on 1 July 2023 with operations merged into Citybus. Before NWFB

38-719: A 51% shareholding in Kunming New World First Bus, a joint venture established with the Kunming government to operate services to Kunming in Yunnan on 39 routes with 700 buses. In August 2020, along with Citybus, NWFB was sold to the Bravo Transport consortium, made up of private equity firm Templewater Bravo, Hong Kong-listed investment holding company Hans Energy and Ascendal Group . In July 2022, Bravo Transport announced that it would be retiring

57-507: A new route. This new route contained an extension to Kowloon while also cancelling stops in the Mid-Levels . The route departs every 30 minutes from 10:00 am till 8:30 pm every day. Starting from February 2015, a batch of five 2002 Dennis Trident 12-metre (fleet number 1215-1219) were converted into half open-topped sightseeing bus and replace the 11-metre Volvo Olympians . The old Olympians will start to transfer to Citybus and replace

76-2047: A route with the new crossing-harbour trip. The Rickshaw Sightseeing Bus brand was rebranded a "HK City Sightseeing" in 2024. Rickshaw Sightseeing Bus provides a sightseeing route, " H1 Heritage Tour. " The "H1 Heritage Tour" takes riders around key attractions in Hong Kong Island and Kowloon. Fare: $ 33.0 HKD/ direction (From Stop 1 to 21 and Stop 21 to 1) 1. Central ( Star Ferry ) 2. Central ( Exchange Square ) Bus Terminus - Interchange stop for Citybus route 260 to Stanley , New World First Bus route 15 to The Peak 3. Connaught Road West near Western Market , Macau Ferry Terminal 4. Queen Street near Ginseng & Bird's Nest Street 5. Hollywood Road opposite Man Mo Temple , Lascar Row 6. Peel Street 7. Hollywood Road opposite Old Central Police Station 8. Lan Kwai Fong , Wyndham Street 9. Ladder Street , Duddell Street gas lamps 10. Statue Square ( Chater Road ) 11. Central Government Offices , Tamar Park 12. The Monument In Commemoration Of The Return Of Hong Kong To China 13. Golden Bauhinia Square , Convention and Exhibition Centre 14. Wan Chai Ferry Pier Across Cross-Harbour Tunnel to Kowloon 15. Temple Street 16. Jade Street , Battery Street 17. Harbour City 18. 1881 Heritage , Peking Road 19. Avenue Of Stars , East Tsim Sha Tsui station (Change For MTR West Rail line ) 20. K11 21. Hong Kong Museum of History , Granville Road Across Cross-Harbour Tunnel to Hong Kong Island 22. Causeway Bay Shopping Area , Paterson Street 23. Times Square , Lee Gardens 24. Happy Valley Racecourse 25. Bowing Road Market (Ngo Keng Kiu) 26. Southorn Playground , Wo Cheong Pawn Shop 27. Pacific Place , Hong Kong Park 28. Peak Tram Terminus , St John's Cathedral 29. Statue Square ( Connaught Road Central ) 1. Central ( Star Ferry ) Starting from 13 December 2014, routes H1 and H2 combined to form

95-570: A thematic sightseeing route by open-top sightseeing buses decorated under the “ rickshaw ” concept, which is an old Hong Kong icon. It aims to facilitate visitors to explore local culture and diverse attractions of Hong Kong. The Rickshaw Sightseeing Bus was introduced on 18 October 2009, intended to reminisce the early days of Hong Kong for visitors and local citizens, and also to facilitate the up-growing demand of individual travelers. Before 13 December 2014, there were two routes which called "H1 Heritage Tour" and "H2 Metropolis Tour", but it merged into

114-883: Is headed by Henry Cheng , the elder son of Dr Cheng Yu-tung . Mr. Brian Cheng and Mr. Gilbert Ho are the Co-Chief Executive Officers of the Company. Before 2020, the company was involved in infrastructure and service businesses in Hong Kong , Mainland China and Macau . Its infrastructure division included roads, energy, water and ports projects. Its service division comprised facilities management, construction ( Hip Hing Construction and NWS Engineering), finance (Taifook Securities and New World Insurance) and transportation ( Citybus , New World First Bus and New World First Ferry ). NWS has been optimizing its business portfolio since 2018. In August 2020,

133-445: Is in the 21/F, NCB Innovation Centre, 888 Lai Chi Kok Road, Cheung Sha Wan, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Rickshaw Sightseeing Bus Rickshaw Sightseeing Bus ( Chinese : 人力車觀光巴士 ) was a brand of sightseeing transportation service operated by Citybus , one of the franchised bus services operators in Hong Kong . It was operated by New World First Bus Services Limited (NWFB) before it was merged into Citybus on 1 July 2023. It offers

152-445: The 1990s, now all these were rationalised and only three bus services remains (511, 592 and 595). In October 2009, NWFB commenced operating through its Rickshaw Sightseeing Bus subsidiary. NWS Holdings It was established in 2002 when its predecessor, Pacific Ports Company Limited , acquired New World Services Limited from New World Development and the infrastructure assets from New World Infrastructure Limited. The company

171-749: The CMB corporate flag. Having purchased large numbers of second-hand buses from CMB, NWFB started an extensive program to refurbish them. The floor, handrails, lighting system and seating layout were all upgraded. The seating layout was changed from 3+2 to 2+2, making a typical refurbished bus accommodate 10 fewer passengers than one before refurbishment. NWFB phased out all older buses gradually in stages and completed in January 2016, becoming full low-floor fleet. In May 2000 FirstGroup sold its shares to joint venture partner New World Development giving it 100% ownership. In June 2003 fellow franchised bus operator Citybus

190-538: The Citybus and New World First Bus subsidiaries were sold to Bravo Transport . NWS sold New World First Ferry to Chu Kong Shipping in 2020. NWS achieves milestone in ESG journey with successful disposal of its interest in coal-fired power plant, Chengdu Jintang Power Plant, marking the complete phase-out of fossil fuel investments from its portfolio and demonstrating its commitment to sustainable practices. Its head office

209-475: The Move 2015 livery, 5518 and 5539 which are in standard livery and 5568 which had been repainted into 2015 Year of The Goat Chinese Zodiac Bus livery). The first half open-topped Trident, 1215, finally entered service on 16 May 2015 operating on the first departure that day. The second and the third new open-topped buses entered service on 19 May 2015 and 20 June 2015. The second Olympian to be transferred to Citybus

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228-492: The NWFB brand, with operations merged into Citybus when the next franchise commenced on 1 July 2023. In July 2023, the brand was retired. As at July 2022, the fleet consisted of 650 buses. NWFB operated four depots at Heng Fa Chuen, Wong Chuk Hang, Tseung Kwan O and West Kowloon. Before the merger with Citybus, New World First Bus had 168 routes. Triple digit routes beginning with 5 were originally air-conditioned only bus routes in

247-511: The bus service on Hong Kong Island. Over 40 routes were transferred between 1991 and 1995. In spite of the loss of many profitable routes, the service of CMB did not show any significant improvement. In February 1998, the government announced the franchise for all 140 routes operated by CMB would not be reviewed when it expired 31 August that year. Eighty-eight of the routes were placed to open tender, 12 routes were transferred directly to Citybus, one cross-harbour route to Kowloon Motor Bus , and

266-420: The old open-topped Leyland Olympians . VA51 had its last day service on Route H1 on 15 April 2015 while the replacement Tridents were not ready for service until 16 May 2015. During this period, New World First Bus Services Limited (NWFB) were using standard buses including Dennis Tridents (fleet number 1180 and 3313) and Alexander Dennis Enviro500s (fleet number 4040 which had been repainted into Arts Bus on

285-468: The remaining routes were cancelled. Six companies lodged bids: NWS Holdings was considered a dark horse as it was the only bidder with no local bus operation experience. However, NWS Holdings was awarded a replacement franchise in March 1998 with commitments of new facilities, improved service standards and employment of CMB staff. During the handover in mid-1998, NWFB faced a lot of difficulties since CMB

304-531: Was VA54 and its last day service was 17 May 2015 and it was repainted into red 'Auntie Nora' livery to replace the AEC Routemaster open-topped vintage bus in the Citybus fleet. VA51 and VA54 changed their fleet numbers into 22 and 23 and finally joined Citybus in June 2015. Single trip fare : HKD 33 (Riders are required to alight at stop 21 of one single trip fare, or continue to stay on the bus to continue

323-480: Was established, franchised bus service in Hong Kong Island was provided by China Motor Bus (CMB) (franchisee since 1933) and Citybus (franchisee since 1991). In the early 1990s, the service levels of CMB were in decline. Therefore, the Government of Hong Kong started to introduce new competitors by transferring the franchise of CMB routes to other companies. As a result, Citybus became the second franchisee of

342-476: Was purchased by NWFB parent company NWS Holdings , bringing the bus services of Hong Kong Island once again under control of a single organisation. Before the acquisition, many of the two companies' competing routes overlap each other. In order to make better use of company resources, many routes were reshuffled. Redundant routes were cancelled, and Octopus card bus-bus interchange discounts were introduced between routes of both companies. In January 2004 NWFB took

361-429: Was reluctant to cooperate. NWFB commenced operating at midnight on 1 September 1998 after a series of negotiations and with help from the government. However NWFB had already started its operation of other non-overnight routes at midnight as CMB refused to operate after that time. NWFB commenced operations with around 50 new buses and 710 former CMB buses, with the NWFB logo applied over the CMB logos and blue patches over

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