Editing Transport in Hong Kong (section)

===Buses===
[[File:DennistridentturboWG8584,60X.jpg|thumb|200px|right|A [[Low-floor bus|low-floor]] [[double-decker bus]] with wheelchair accessibility]]
{{Main|Bus services in Hong Kong}}
Bus services have [[History of bus transport in Hong Kong|a long history]] in Hong Kong. As of 2023, four companies operate franchised public [[bus]] services, each granted ten-year exclusive operating rights to the set of routes that they operate.<ref>{{Cite press release |title=New Franchises For Two Franchised Bus Companies |date=June 24, 2014 |publisher=Transport Department |url=https://www.td.gov.hk/en/publications_and_press_releases/press_releases/transport_department/index_t_id_2251.html}}</ref> Franchise buses altogether carry about one-third of the total daily public transport market of around 12,000,000 passengers, with [[Kowloon Motor Bus|KMB]] having 67% of the franchised bus market share and [[Citybus (Hong Kong)|CityBus]] with 29%.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hong Kong Monthly Digest of Statistics |url=http://www.censtatd.gov.hk/hkstat/sub/sp140.jsp?productCode=B1010002 |website=Census and Statistics Department}}</ref>{{full citation needed|date=December 2020}} There are also a variety of non-franchised public buses services, including feeder bus services to railway stations operated by the railway companies, and residents' services for residential estates (particularly those in the New Territories).

The four franchised bus companies are:
* [[Kowloon Motor Bus|Kowloon Motor Bus Company (1933) Limited]];
* [[Citybus (Hong Kong)|Citybus Limited]];
* [[Long Win Bus|Long Win Bus Company Limited]]; and
* [[New Lantao Bus|New Lantao Bus Company (1973) Limited]].

Founded in 1933, the Kowloon Motor Bus Company (1933) Limited (KMB) is one of the largest privately owned public [[bus]] operators in the world.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Sybase Success Story: Kowloon Motor Bus Company|access-date=19 July 2009|date=21 April 2009|url=http://java.sys-con.com/node/929816}}</ref> KMB's fleet consist of about 3,900 buses on 400 routes and a staff of over 12,000 people. In 1979, [[Citybus (Hong Kong)|Citybus]] began its operations in Hong Kong with one double-decker, providing shuttle service for the Hong Kong dockyard. It later expanded into operating a residential bus route between [[City One]], [[Sha Tin]] and [[Kowloon Tong station|Kowloon Tong MTR station]]. [[New World First Bus]] Services Limited was established in 1998, taking over [[China Motor Bus]]'s franchise to provide bus services on [[Hong Kong Island]] together with Citybus. NWFB's owner company later bought Citybus, and NWFB and Citybus shared the same website, but the two companies had essentially been operating independently until their merger on 1 July 2023.