In Taipei City, go look at the reworked pedestrian area on Xinsheng South Road. A nice example is at the Xinhai Road intersection. Look at the size of the sidewalks there, look at the cut out slowing down right turns, look at the size of the pedestrian crossing. It’s all brilliant.
@hansioux would know more.
Guy
I’m struggling to find where these two intersect 
Lin Chih-chien actually built 50km worth of sidewalks and pedestrian crossing. The entire downtown area, especially along both sides of the train station, are greatly improved.
As a fan of Hsinchu City, I strongly agree with this.
Guy
2017
2023
It used to be a nightmare driving at these intersections. Now I don’t feel like I’m going to have a stroke every time I drive past here.
I can’t tell when they changed in the two photos, other than replacing the planter boxes in the median with bollards.
Sidewalks were added to both sides of the roads, and it was hard to find an angle on google maps that showed them all.
There used to be 3 lane worth of pick up area right in front of the station, without clear marking to where cars can temporarily park, and where the lane should be left to moving traffic. It was absolutely horrific at rush hours, when people just got off the train flood between all the cars filling up all 3 lanes, and no car could move.
Now there is just 1 lane for moving cars, and pickup area. The entire entrance to the station is now a plaza, and all sidewalk. So people can stand safely away from the cars. Even when you get walk half way to the island, there’s also a sidewalk. When you cross the road all the way to the fan shaped plaza, before there weren’t any sidewalks, now there’s a side walk.
The entire area looks much bigger even though the dimensions are all the same.
Towards the back of the station
Near Hsinchu Park, around the entrance of the zoo
Okay, since we got back the ability to report some illegal parking violations again after Taiwan govt. was embarrassed by a single CNN news article there have been various complaints/protests from taxi groups, delivery truck drivers, professional drivers etc. With some taxi drivers racking up multiple points on their license in an incredibly short time.
Most recently such complaints/protests have led to some suggestions by The National Automobile Drivers’ Rights Alliance.
Some make sense like setting up special areas only for pick-up and drop off.
One of the suggestions was that whistleblowers/reporters must take an exam and be licensed and must have a visible ID/badge when making reports.
The alliance also suggested that reporters should have at least a 3 minute long video, not just 1 picture AND prove it has an impact on pedestrian and traffic safety.
This change alone would make it much more difficult to report due to file size limitations alone. Not to mention try sitting somewhere for a few minutes with your phone out obviously pointing at someone’s car, not a small chance that some drivers will will come over and try to harass you or assault you.
The association/alliance head stated that after the resumption of public reporting of illegal parking the roads were filled with “reporting cockroaches”.
Only change I see is the lack of parked scooters.
This is ridiculous and clearly aimed at scaring people away from reporting violations. The police make the decision on whether to issue a ticket or not, not the whistleblower, so qualifying a whistleblower makes no sense unless they’re proposing whistleblowers can issue tickets!
Some police officers are already making this statement when rejecting parking violation reports.
For “illegal parking” it is currently a requirement to prove parking for 3 mins or more, can be a start and end video or pictures which show 3 mins have passed. For “temporary illegal parking” there is no requirment to prove 3 mins however some police officers are insisting on two photos or even a photo showing an empty driver’s seat!
A sensible suggestion. Bear in mind though that members of the public cannot report drivers on red lines so those being reported are parking in bus stops/double parking/on pedestrian crossings/sidewalks etc., something unlikely to change even with special parking spots as they can already park on red lines without fear of whistleblowers.
This one is a little odd. They’re clearly committing “major” violations to pick up penalty points, not just parking violations.
Really? In a lot of place the sidewalk position is too far out which is unsafe. Many people actually walk where there is no sidewalk and where the actual sidewalk should be. Are we criminals?
Well, this is a pro pedestrian thread. So you won’t impress many of us telling how much better is to drive now 
We should start a National Pedestrian Rights Alliance.
This makes me think that 劉鴻樟 doesn’t understand Taiwanese traffic laws (which are available to read publicly in Chinese and in English). Or perhaps he is being misquoted. Would you need a 3-minute video to report someone running a red light or driving along a sidewalk? Of course not. That doesn’t make any sense, but it sounds like this is what he wants.
You already need a 3-minute video for violations that require a vehicle to be stationary for 3+ minutes. Doesn’t 劉鴻樟 know that? Is he asking for something that already exists, or is he proposing something absolutely illogical and stupid? It is difficult to tell.
劉鴻樟’s use of “reporting cockroaches” (檢舉蟑螂) has the implication that he thinks whistleblowers are getting paid for their reports. Again, something he should perhaps have checked before making public statements? I mean, who is going out there and reporting people for fun? It’s not fun. It’s tedious, boring, unpaid, uncool charity work where you have to see the same idiot do the same stupid, asshole crime multiple times as you first witness it, then prepare the evidence and finally submit the evidence. The numbers suggest that you might be saving a life… maybe… possibly… but you’ll never know for sure. Even after 20,000 tickets, you’ll never know if you’ve saved one life, or a dozen, or zero.
Yes. Completely agree. And pay them. Make them wear those bright yellow jackets. Give them a pension and working hours. Give them a website where they proudly boast that they are responsible for ticketing parking violations. Call them “police officers”. Wait a moment… 
I agree with this one! They should also be employed by the city, and be able to issue tickets. And they should be called traffic wardens.
I thought this is a make drivers yield to pedestrian thread?
They should make schools smaller so when there’s a shooting there’s less dead kids.
What kind of logic is that?
What are the new reportable offenses? Do we still need to prove that the car is empty?
The new crosswalks still have the same number of people using them. It’s not like they’re cutting down the number of pedestrians.
