Paterson Street

Paterson Street looking south towards the junction with Great George Street in July 2007
The southern tip of Paterson Street, as seen from Yee Wo Street in December 2008

Paterson Street (Chinese: 百德新街) is a one-way road in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong Island. It begins in the north at the T-junction with Gloucester Road (directly opposite the Caltex petrol station), and intersects with Kingston Street and Great George Street before ending as a pedestrian street which intersects with Yee Wo Street in the south.

The street was named after John Johnstone Paterson, a taipan of Jardine Matheson & Co., and a member of the Executive Council and Legislative Council of Hong Kong.

The fast food chain McDonald's opened its first branch in Hong Kong on 8 January 1975 in the Hang Lung Centre on the corner of Paterson Street and Great George Street. The branch relocated to Yee Wo Street in 1984, where it has remained ever since.

In the 1990s, the southernmost section of Paterson Street between Great George Street and Yee Wo Street was restricted to buses. It then became a weekend pedestrian zone on a trial basis in December 1999, before becoming fully pedestrianised in July 2000.

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References

  1. ↑ "Paterson Street". gwulo.com. Retrieved 28 June 2015.
  2. ↑ Chris Wood (19 January 2018). "When Hong Kong's first McDonald's opened in 1975 'and they poured in' to try hamburgers". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 1 July 2021.